Look at the faces of these parents whose loved ones were gunned down.

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President Obama spoke at the White House on common sense gun safety proposals. Here are some highlights:

The grief doesn’t ever go away. That loss, that pain sticks with you.

That agony burns deep in the families of thousands, thousands of Americans who’ve been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun over these last hundred days.

Everything they lived for and hoped for taken away in an instant.

I called on Congress to give these proposals a vote, and in just a couple of weeks, they will.

All of [the reforms] are consistent with the Second Amendment, none of them will infringe on the rights of responsible gun owners. What they will do is keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who put others at risk. This is our best chance in more than a decade to take common sense steps that will save lives.

If there is a step we can take that will save just one child, just one parent, just another town from experiencing the same grief that some of the moms and dads who are here have endured, then we should be doing it! We have an obligation to try.

None of these ideas should be controversial. Why wouldn’t we want to make it more difficult for a dangerous person to get his or her hands on a gun? Why wouldn’t we want to close the loopholes that allows as many as many as 40% of all gun purchases to take place without a background check? Why wouldn’t we do that?

90% of Americans, 90%, support background checks… more than 80% of Republicans agree! More than  80% of gun owners agree! Think about that. How often do 90% of Americans agree on anything?

There’s absolutely no reason why we can’t get this done.

There are some powerful voices on the other side that are interested in running out the clock or changing the subject or driving out the majority of the American people to prevent any of these reforms from happening at all. … Their assumption is that people will just forget about it.

Let me tell you, the people here don’t forget… Hadiya’s mom hasn’t forgotten.

…We’ve moved on to other things? That’s not who we are.

Less than 100 days ago that happened. And the entire country was shocked. The entire country pledged we would do something about it and this time would be different. Shame on us if we’ve forgotten!

I haven’t forgotten those kids. Shame on us if we’ve forgotten.

Nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change.

Speak up! We need your voices in this debate!

We need everybody to remember how we felt 100 days ago and make sure that what we said at that time wasn’t just a bunch of platitudes, that we meant it.

Tears aren’t enough… Speeches aren’t enough.

What we’re proposing is not radical. It’s not taking away anybody’s gun rights. It’s something that, if we are serious, we will do. Now’s the time to turn that heartbreak into something real.