WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's do-it-himself plan for keeping guns away from those who shouldn't have them falls far short of what he'd hoped to accomplish through legislation after a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School shook the country to attention in 2012.
Yet even the more modest steps Obama will announce Tuesday rely on murky interpretations of existing law that could be easily reversed by his successor.
BOSTON – After graduating from college in May, New Jersey native Jane Riccardi headed for New England on a rare assignment – to spur on the infant pro-life student movement in one of the most progressive pockets of the country.
Although Riccardi, 23, had spent some time as a student working on various causes, she joined the national Students for Life organization in 2015 as one of 10 regional coordinators, and the first one to hold the post full-time in New England. Since she started, five new high school chapters and two at local colleges have been set up in the region.
