NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT: President embraced grief-stricken families of young childrenmassacred in their school during a moving vigil on Sunday coinciding with rising demands for action on gun control.
Obama arrived in dark and chill Newtown, scene of Friday's carnage in which 20 children, aged six or seven and six adults died, and spent several hours privately consoling relatives of those murdered, and first responders.
Earlier, officials formally identifiedwholesale jerseys 20, as the shooter who ran amok in the picture postcard town and confirmed that he shot his mother several times in the head at the house they shared before going to his old school and embarking on a gruesome killing spree.
Queues stretched for at least 200 yards (meters) outside the auditorium at Newtown High School, where Obama was to attend a vigil later on Sunday evening and give an address.
Adults stood in groups, some crying and wholesale nfl jerseyshugging, others joining younger children, many of elementary school age, in carrying teddies and cuddly toys as symbols of remembrance for young innocent lives ending in a hail of bullets.
Obama, representing a nationwww.mlbnfljerseyssupply.com plunged into deep shock by the tragedy, was to speak at the end of the vigil, in a hauntingly familiar scene, consoling the bereaved from the fourth gun massacre of his presidency.
Lanza used his mother's Bushmaster .223 assault rifle to kill 26 people at the school, including 20 children aged either six or seven, before taking his own life with a handgun as police officers closed in and sirens wailed.
During his rampage, the shooter had four guns and multiple magazines, some holding up to 30 clips, butConnecticut State Police spokesman Lieutenant Paul Vance said it was unclear how many bullets were fired.
Connecticut's chief medical examiner Wayne Carver has said that the bodies of the child victims were riddled with as many as 11 bullets.
Vance declined to hint at any possible motive they may have uncovered so far in their investigation, saying: "We don't have a specific reason we can stand here and say this occurred."
Grief mixed with new calls on Sunday for action with the re-elected Obama under rising pressure to lead a charge to renew a ban on assault weapons and fast firing ammunition, and to take on the power of the US gun lobby.
A prominent Democratic lawmaker, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, promised to introduce a bill to ban assault weapons on the very first day of the next Congress, January 3.
As he waited for the vigil to start in Newtown, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman called for a national commission on violence.