Connecticut school shooting: Barack Obama meets grieving families Mr Obama arrived in Newtown, the scene of Friday's carnage in which 20 children and six adults died, and spent several hours privately consoling relatives of those murdered, and talking to first responders. Adults stood in groups, some crying and hugging, 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. During his rampage, the shooter had four guns and multiple magazines, some holding up to 30 clips, but Connecticut 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. Mr 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 for action with Mr 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. These events are happening more frequently, and I worry that if we don't take a thoughtful look at them, we lose the hurt and the anger that we have now.