Obama introduces measures to reduce gun violence

Obama: "we should do everything possible to save lives and prevent the families pain and unimaginable losses that many Americans have suffered"

Washington-the President of the United States, Barack Obama, presented on Fridaynew measures to try to reduce the violence caused by firearms, among them speed up development of technology to produce "smart weapons" and share mental health records with the criminal background check system.

In an article on his official Facebook page, Obama explained that these measures are another step to further initiatives announced last January.

"As I said in January, these common sense measures won't prevent all tragedies, but what if we can avoid at least one?," argued Obama.

"We should do everything possible to save lives and prevent the families pain and unimaginable losses that many Americans have suffered," he added.

According to the White House, every year in the u.s. firearms cause more than 30 1000 deaths in accidents, shootings, cases of domestic violence and suicides.

In January, Obama instructed the departments of Defense, Justice and homeland security to develop a strategy to accelerate the development of technology associated with the so-called "smart weapons" or custom, which are safer because they can only be triggered by the owner or by an authorized person.

This strategy, presented today, considers the beginning of a process to define, for the first time, the requirements manufacturers must meet to develop "smart weapons" that then can be purchased by agencies and security forces federal, State and local.

The compromise is that this process be completed in October, according to the White House.

Another of the measures announced today has the intention that the Federal mental health records on people prohibited from buying a gun from being shared with the criminal background check system.

In addition, the White House will hold a Summit in May with employees and officialsof the 50 States of the country to address what other legislative and executive measures can be taken to reduce the deaths by firearms.

"As long as I am President, I will do everything in my power to make sure our communities are safer and to keep guns out of the wrong hands," said Obama in his article.

The President returned to also ask Congress to approve reforms "common sense" with the "support of the vast majority of the American people".

In 2013, Obama tried to press the Congress to carry out laws to control the sale of firearms, but not even lawmakers approved the proposal that generated more consensus and seeking to deploy a universal system of background checks of buyers.

Last January, visibly excited and between tears when he recalled the 20 children killed in school shooting Sandy Hook of Newtown (Connecticut) in 2012, Obama presented an Executive package whose centerpiece is a new regulation to expand background checks of those who buy a gun.

One of the keystones of this Executive package is the one that requires every person to do business with the arms register, obtain a federal license, and therefore assume the obligation to review the criminal records and mental health of their buyers.