Children are the newest gun-control advocates, putting pen to paper to beseech President Obama to “not let people own machine guns or other powerful guns like that.” Those were the words of Grant, an 8-year-old from Maryland who wrote to the White House three days after 20 first-graders and four adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. On Wednesday, Obama announced broad proposals to stem gun violence, joined by Grant and a handful of other children who have written him after last month’s massacre. Julia, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C., told Obama that ... Read More