GOP leaders also shuttered C-SPAN's live coverage of the protest, but that did not stop policy makers from tweeting and posting live feeds on Facebook and Periscope to disseminate their cause.
“An act of heroism a lot bigger than we should expect from any 15-year-old,” Obama said of the teenager.
Invoking Martin Luther King Jr., the president said the country needs to possess a "fierce urgency of now" to combat gun violence and not only discuss the latest mass shooting, but prevent it.
President Obama is set to announce an executive action on gun sales at the top of the new year.
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In a twist of irony, President Obama revealed in an exclusive BBC interview just hours before a gunman opened fire in a Louisiana movie theater that…
