WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama turned over his weekly radio and Internet address this week to the mother of a 6-year-old killed in the massacre in Newtown, Conn.
Francine Wheeler -- whose son, Ben, was one of 20 children and six staffers killed Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School -- used the occasion to ask Americans to call on their representatives in Washington to enact "commonsense gun responsibility reforms that will make our communities safer and prevent more tragedies like the one we never thought would happen to us."