At many White House events, whoever the president is, there appear what we in the White House press corps call “the sob stories.” These are the people who are supposedly adversely affected by the status quo, which the president hopes to change with his brilliant new initiative. Often the sob stories will speak, detailing how they incurred some profound tragedy from which only the president

President Obama will announce his gun control proposals at a White House event Wednesday, according to Politico. Obama is expected to announce the White House will push for a prohibition on high-capacity ammunition magazines, universal background checks for gun purchases and an assault weapons ban, along with the 19 executive orders that Vice President Biden told House Democrats Monday Obama will implement unilaterally. The event will include