According to the news item, what is President Obama pushing for? [originaltext]

Basically, the more people push for something, the better chance it has of happening and vice versa.(9)After December school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, there was a lot of talk about the possibility of new gun laws in America. Some people who want these laws declared yesterday a national day of action. That’s what President Obama is pushing for. Some ideas have been proposed like a ban on assault weapons, but those proposals haven’t got enough support in Congress to become law. Opponents argued that the proposals are not the effective way to reduce gun violence.(10)And recent polls suggest that public support for major new gun laws is dropping.