Law enforcement leaders who met with President Obama on Monday urged him to focus on strengthening gun purchase background investigation and mental health system, but there is no unified behind him more controversial gun control efforts.
Gathered at the White House chief executive and police long news reflects the political reality of the assault weapons ban, especially in congress may be difficult to win a wide range of support. The President to recognize the challenge and from congress to get everything he wants, the participants at the meeting said.
"We are very supportive of the assault weapons ban," police chief said, Montgomery county, Maryland, the police director j. Thomas manager in the Associated Press interview. "But I think everyone understands that this may be a really tough battle to win, the President said one of the things is that we can't see it as we must let all these things we haven't won".
Above the assault weapons ban and limit high capacity magazine - President support the opinions of the two measures - is divided in the room. Although the manager said, from the city's police chief support the gun control, some elected chief executive in meeting may not.
"I think what's clear is that gun control itself does not save this problem, said:" the sheriff Paul Fitzgerald story county, Iowa, 13 law enforcement leaders meeting with the President, vice President and cabinet members of more than one hour, in the Roosevelt room sitting at a table.
Participants including three heads, 2012 years of the most serious shooting, including the aurora, Colorado, 12 were killed in July, the American state of Wisconsin oak creek, where death in a Sikh temple's attack, and Newtown, Connecticut field recent large-scale left first-year students and the tragedy of death.
The White House concedes that, the police after the debate last month in Connecticut primary school shooting the gun is a reliable and important voice. Obama in the media before the lens, and declare this meeting open, more important is to listen to the debate not group.
"We hope that, if the law enforcement personnel is dealing with this thing every day can come to some basic consensus, we need to take the steps, congress will focus on them, we will be able to make progress," Obama said.
Obama urged congress to pass a ban on assault weapons, limiting high capacity of the magazine, and requirements will gun owners in a brief statement to reporters common background check. However, participants said, there have been accompanied by media left the room, the key is no offensive weapons ban.
"He didn't ask us, if we do this or does not support the assault weapons ban, said:" the sheriff Richard Stan Nick, Minnesota Hennepin county, county sheriff association. "He didn't ask us, if we do or do not support high capacity of the magazine."
"I'm very frankly told him that this is not just a gun control alone, Stan Nick said." And he said, the bigger question is, justice background survey system is incomplete, because many countries have no report mental health data or felony conviction. He mentioned in his hometown of Minnesota, a 14-year-old lens, with shotguns killed his mother, but then to purchase additional legal handguns and automatic weapons, because the background check, and didn't find his history. "For example, in all parts of the country such as the example, Stan Nick said."
Fitzgerald said, mental health system needs to better support, because all parts of the country's prison become "dumping reason for psychiatric patients."
"If I only sheriff in this issue," gerrard said. "For me, this is the first thing, if we want to in the United States was the violent impact."
All the law enforcement participants in accepting our newspaper reporter to interview said they on the President's attention problems, and think that the meeting constructive. The manager said, President bush made a lot more than listen to listen to, and about the need to pay more police, to protect the school security advice, limited sale of ammunition on the Internet, in addition to widely calls for strengthening the mental health and background check system.
Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey's main city association director, said he has never been more encourage some form of gun control legislation prospect, even if the assault weapons ban his team support is an uphill battle.
"You won't get 100% of the people in any agreed on, because it involves gun control, and we don't have any different, but most people in the room know things to do," he said. "This is not just a passing things as the President and vice President, this is the thing, they are determined to continue to keep in front of the people of the United States, until they get things through."
Although the assault weapons ban of the White House meeting a big focus, said a long time discussion and senator FanShiDan, California, who sponsored the ban in 1994, lasted ten years, in a later meeting last week launched a update of the United States congress ban.
Stan Nick said: "I would say," she hasn't received the news by the group as a whole. "Everyone has this or that opinion."
 



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