In the days following last month’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., President Obama promised to convene a broad national dialogue about the causes of gun violence. But in the proposals that the president put forward on Wednesday, selected from a range of options prepared for him by Vice President Biden, critics noticed what they considered to be a large hole.
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