Only 12 percent said they think the number of gun crimes is lower, while the rest said they think it remained the same or didn't know.

NPR: Reports Show Gun Homicides Down Since 1990s

With a Democratic House and Senate, he could push through the rest of his Progressive agenda on gun control, immigration, climate change and taxes during the last two years of his Presidency.

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For some, it is based on the fundamental belief that gun ownership is the essential freedom upon which all other freedoms rest.

BBC: President Obama's next campaign - against the gun lobby

It remains to be seen as superstar lawyers do battle, whether the world of guns will be opened - a door closed to the rest of us because it costs so much to buy a gun, its ammunition and to join the shooting ranges the law requires of South African gun owners.

BBC: African viewpoint: Dying to be armed

The president is trying to protect the rest of his agenda -- immigration reform, climate change, gun control -- from falling victim to the budget wars.

CNN: Obama woos GOP, finally

The rest left with a 45 mph fastball, a sore elbow, and a conviction that the radar gun must be defective.

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