White House faces pressure to act after string of mass shootings
Bodies are carried away on Friday from the scene of a mass shooting that took place at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. (Photo for The Washington Post by Megan Jelinger).
Published April 18. 2021 12:57AM
Toluse Olorunnipa and Marianna Sotomayor, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - The routine has become so predictable that some gun-control activists see the familiarity of tragedy as their biggest obstacle to achieving the change they've been seeking for the past decade.
A gunman's rampage that claimed eight lives Thursday in Indianapolis became the latest mass shooting to set off the well-known pattern of condolences, lowered flags and a somber presidential statement calling on Congress to act.