U.S. President &lt;a gi-track='captionPersonalityLinkClicked' href=/galleries/search?phrase=Barack+Obama&amp;family=editorial&amp;specificpeople=203260 ng-click='$event.stopPropagation()'&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt; 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'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.