Following the Navy Yard shootings in Washington President Barack Obama has renewed his calls for Congress to overhaul America’s gun legislation., Euronews reports. Despite the national grief over the Newtown school shootings and now this, he lamented the fact that there had been such slow progress in winning the gun control argument. Congress is going to have to act. We’ve put in place every executive action that I proposed right after Newtown happened. So I’ve taken steps that are within my control. The next phase now is for Congress to go ahead and move,” he said.