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Showdown over guns

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Barack Obama throws down the gauntlet to Congress and the gun lobby with a wide-ranging mix of executive orders and bills. Public opinion may be on his side, but can he really reverse the decades-long loosening of gun control?

DEBATE
  • Steve KATZ, New York State Assemblyman;
  • Anne BAGAMERY, Senior Editor, International Herald Tribune;
  • Frederick T. DAVIS, Lawyer, Member of the French American Foundation France;
  • Gerald OLIVIER, Journalist and Author, "Mitt Romney, pour le renouveau du mythe américain".

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    Programme prepared and produced by Isabelle Sarton du Jonchay, Anelise Borges and Mary Colombel

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