U.S. President Barack Obama gives high-fives to children who wrote letters to the White House about gun violence, (L-R) Taejah Goode, Julia Stokes and Grant Fritz, after announcing the administration&#39;s new gun law proposals in the Eisenhower Executive Office building, on January 16, 2012 in Washington, DC. One month after a massacre that left 20 school children and 6 adults dead in Newtown, Connecticut, the president unveiled a package of gun control proposals that include universal background checks and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.