CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: We turn now to kids and guns; it is a deadly combination and getting deadlier. Here to tell us just how deadly it's getting is CNN's Kathleen Koch at the White House. Kathleen, a meeting today, huh?</s>KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely between the president and congressional leaders. And what the president will be telling them is that, here in the United States, 13 children are killed by guns every day, that's more than in all other industrialized countries combined. And in a study that is out today, the White House will be making the point that those numbers were even higher between the years of 1987 and 1993, when there were fewer laws on the book regulating access to firearms. For example, in 1993, 61 percent of young people who were killed in the United States died in gun violence. Now, the president will be using that study as ammunition in his meeting with congressional leaders this morning. He -- they are here to hear the president's argument to get gun-control legislation moving again on Capitol Hill. Mr. Clinton wants to see handgun locks on -- locks required on handguns. He wants to ban the import of large- capacity ammunition clips. And the president wants buyers at gun shows to get background checks, just like anyone who buys a gun at a gun shop. Now, on Capitol Hill, since the shootings in Littleton, Colorado, lawmakers did propose several measures that would help keep guns out of the hands of criminals, out of the hands of children, but they were not able to agree on the details. So those measure have, essentially, gone nowhere. Republicans say that what we really need, though, to prevent needless gun deaths is stricter enforcement of the laws currently on the books. Reporting live at the White House, I'm Kathleen Koch.
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