White House mum on details of Obama gun-control plans

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Washington Examiner:

A day after President Obama pledged to protect America's children and avert mass shootings like the one last week at a Connecticut elementary school, the White House on Monday provided no details about how Obama plans to reverse the tide of violence.

Gun-control advocates were encouraged by the president's pledge on Sunday to use "whatever power this office holds" to address the kind of gun-related violence that claimed the lives of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But when pressed for specifics Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said only that the president's plan to combat gun violence would go beyond new restrictions on gun ownership.

"It's a complex problem that will require a complex solution," Carney said. "I don't have a specific agenda to point you to today."

The White House reiterated Obama's support of a federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 but declined to say whether the president would support instituting a new ban, as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., proposed, or appointing a national commission to study violence as Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., suggested.