WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama made fighting gun violence his chief resolution for 2016 in a New Year’s Day address, calling it a major piece of “unfinished business” for his White House administration.

The US leader announced he would meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday, his first day back at work after the year-end break, “to discuss our options” in reducing the toll of deaths and injuries from firearms.

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