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Urgent: Obama urges U.S. to reckon on gun violence after South Carolina hate crime shooting

Xinhua, June 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the United States to reckon on gun violence after Wednesday night's shooting spree in a black church that killed nine people.

In a televised speech, Obama said that apart from the United States, not a single advanced country in the world has witnessed gun violence with such a frequency. Endite