Obama And Biden Unveil Proposal To Decrease Gun Violence In U.S.

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 16: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (R) greets Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (L) and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack after arriving for a ceremony where U.S. President Barack Obama signed a series of executive orders laying out the administration's new gun law proposals in the Eisenhower Executive Office building January 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. Salazar announced that he will be leaving the administration and returning to Colorado at the end of March. 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. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)