US President Barack Obama on Tuesday, announcing tightening control over the turnover of firearms, could not restrain tears, speaking of schoolchildren who died as a result of attacks in recent years. According to the White House, annually more than 30 thousand people die in America from firearms, over the past 10 years, more than 20 thousand children under the age of 18 have died from it. However, the Congress, under the pressure of an influential "weapons lobby", does not adopt laws that limit the trade in rifles and pistols. Most of the measures proposed by Obama will be executed on the basis of presidential decrees.