By James Nye PUBLISHED: 19:36 EST, 3 April 2013 | UPDATED: 08:12 EST, 4 April 2013 Ratcheting up pressure for Congress to limit access to guns, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that recent steps by Colorado to tighten its gun laws show 'there doesn't have to be a conflict' between keeping citizens safe and protecting Second Amendment rights to gun ownership. 'I believe there doesn't have to be a conflict in reconciling these realities,' Obama said in Denver, where he stepped up his call for background checks for all gun purchases and renewed his demand that Congress at least vote on banning assault weapons and limiting access to large-capacity ammunition magazines.
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'I believe there doesn't have to be a conflict in reconciling these realities,' said Obama in Denver
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Obama noted that more than 100 days have passed since the shooting rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown
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