We must seek agreement on gun reforms

This opinion piece by President Obama appeared in the Arizona Daily Star on March 13, 2011, following the shooting of Arizona Congressional representative Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others at a political rally.

It’s been more than two months since the tragedy in Tucson stunned the nation. It was a moment when we came together as one people to mourn and to pray for those we lost. And in the attack’s turbulent wake, Americans by and large rightly refrained from finger-pointing, assigning blame or playing politics with other people’s pain.

But one clear and terrible fact remains. A man our Army re...