President Barack Obama: House Speaker John Boehner

Obama Dept: WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama made a passionate pitch for gun control Tuesday in his fourth State of the Union address as the nation still reels from perhaps its most heinous mass shooting and the 20 first graders who were mowed down by a troubled young man with an assault weapon, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "This time is different," the president insisted and president Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President John Biden and House Speaker John Boehner smiles as he gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool "In the two months since Newtown, more than 1,000 birthdays, graduations, and anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun," Obama said as he addressed a joint session of Congress, where tougher gun control laws have scant hope of passing despite overwhelming public support. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.