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雅思时事阅读：奥巴马将采取行动预防此类事件

　　His voice halting and cracking, Obama spoke emotionally of the young victims beautiful little kids, he said, between the ages of 5 and 10, who had their entire lives ahead of them: birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. As he has after similar tragedies, Obama invoked his own role as a father as he sought to comfort a community wracked with grief.

　　The incident is the latest in a sequence of mass shootings around the U.S. in recent years. Obama referenced several in his remarks, including the slayings at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisc., and a rampage at a suburban Denver movie theater last summer. As a country, weve been through this too many times, Obama said. Were going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

　　Many Americans have called on lawmakers to impose new gun-control regulations in an effort to curb future catastrophes. There is no evidence yet that such measures would have prevented the carnage in Connecticut. Although the gun-rights lobby has stoked fears about Obamas desire to restrict gun rights, the President signed bills in his first term that allowed the possession of firearms in national parks and on Amtrak trains. His record of modestly expanding gun rights prompted one gun-control group to assail Obamas extraordinary silence and passivity, and award the President an F on gun control in 2010. Obama eschewed the topic on the campaign trail this year, though he did allow, during the second presidential debate, that he favored the reintroduction of an assault-weapons ban.