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Reuters1:29 a.m. CDT, July 22, 2012
* Trip will put president in role of consoler-in-chief* Obama calls shooting rampage 'heinous'
* Massacre spurs gun-control debate but few predict changes(Adds Obama to travel to Colorado)
By Matt Spetalnick and Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will
travel to Colorado on Sunday to meet with wounded survivors and
victims' families in the aftermath of a deadly shooting rampage
at a movie theater in a Denver suburb, White House officials
said on Saturday.
Obama's trip will come a day after local and federal
authorities completed the painstaking process of disarming the
booby-trapped apartment of the suspected gunman accused of
killing 12 people and wounding 58 during a midnight premiere of
the new "Batman" film on Friday.
The visit will cast Obama in the role of consoler-in-chief
for Americans mourning the victims of the mass shooting, which
prompted the Democratic president and his Republican rival, Mitt
Romney, to put their campaigning temporarily on hold.
