Barack Obama vents anger over ’shameful’ gun control defeat

Bristling with anger, President Barack Obama branded the defeat of his gun reform drive in the US Senate as “shameful,“ and accused Senators of caving in to the powerful firearms lobby. A deeply emotional President Obama lashed out after a bid to expand background checks for gun buyers - the last meaningful piece of his trimmed effort to reform gun laws after the Newtown school massacre - failed to pass. Ringed by grief-stricken relatives of some of the 20 children gunned down in Connecticut in December,