We have to convince the Senate to come together and pass commonsense gun responsibility reforms that will make our communitiessafer and prevent more tragedies like the one we never thought would happen to us.
And I issued a number of executive actions that should be taken unilaterally in order to improve our collection of data to make sure that we're coordinating more effectively with state and local governments, and to do everything that we could to improve the issue of gun safety and to make our communitiessafer.
The justice secretary said the Conservatives and Labour would try to vote down measures that would make Scotland's communitiessafer, because they had not "got their way".
"While we continue efforts to enact President Obama's comprehensive approach to make our schools and communitiessafer, we want to do whatever we can to support ongoing recovery efforts and ensure this community has the resources it needs to meet the needs of its teachers, students, and families, " said Duncan.