Washington -- President Barack Obama will join CNN´s Anderson Cooper Thursday for an exclusive one-hour live town hall on gun control.Obama will sit down with Cooper at 8 p.m. ET for the event, titled "Guns in America." The event´s timing coincides with the fifth anniversary, next Friday, of the shooting of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, in a rampage that left six dead and 13 others wounded. In addition to discussing gun issues with Cooper, Obama will also take questions from the audience on the issue.