Vice President Joe Biden will meet Wednesday with gun safety and gun violence victims' groups. On Thursday, he will meet with representatives of gun ownership and sportsmen. He will also meet sometime this week with representatives from the entertainment and video-game industries. Biden already presided over a summit with law enforcement officials last month. The discussions are all part of the effort by an administration-wide task force on gun violence that Biden heads to come up with a report on options by the Jan. 31 deadline President Obama has set. The task force was established in December after the slaughter of kindergarteners and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, by a young gunman armed with a rapid-fire semi-automatic rifle owned by his mother, whom he also killed before shooting himself when police arrived on the scene.
Staff aides say the president wants to act quickly for fear that delay will allow the massacre to fade from memory as other pressing matters take over the government's and public's attention and the prospects for new legislation also fades.
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