the worse mat shootings. the shooting in colorado, san jose, the attack in indianapolis, spa shootings in atlanta, six at a birthday party and six more in south carolina. that s a teeny tiny fraction of a hundred fatal shootings just this year. while some may be getting numb to stories like this, familiar lips of victims won t have that option. they live with the pain the rest of their lives. i want to bring in shannon pettypiece from d.c. president biden named a lot of these shootings in his statement yesterday when he again called for gun reform. what is he going to do to try to make things happen? how many times have we said enough is enough? right. and, steph, behind me the flags at the white house are once again flying at half-staff. once again we heard the
country, so what can congress do to stop this? well, what we have already done, alisyn, is send a bipartisan bill to the senate back in february, it s been almost 200 days this bill has been sitting on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell s desk, what we are continuing to do is marking up additional gun reform bills, including banning the sale of high-capacity magazines. i think that it is very important for senators, for the republican senators, to start putting more pressure on the senate majority leader. the american public has spoken and they have spoken loudly. more than 90% of americans support a universal background check for people purchasing weapons. i think it is incredibly negligent by the senate majority leader and republican senators that sit idly by as we continue to see these mat shootings.
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know, not trying to get into the gun debate but 50 years ago everybody had access to guns, not that many people are going out and doing mat shootings. mass shootings seems to be something that is fomenting possibly through internet but certainly has become the thing with people who are this mentally ill. what else, though, can be done, because if you look at the map of countries around the world the united states is the country that seems to have that mental illness and such easy access to guns, steve, and it s almost like we were doing this just one week ago, the same thing. how do you take it back once this becomes an epidemic in the united states? well, it can t be a single prong attack. if i mean, you have to go
and what the president revealed in the first wave of his response is the characterize as do-no-harm presidential reaction, offering the prayers, blessing of the two communities, thanking first responders. the kinds of comments you would expect. they re appreciated but they don t change the circumstance. and a certain distancing and avoiding of the harder situation. the president has addressed in the most simple way a bit of the motivation piece by saying hate has no place in our country. that s about as close as we ve seen him get to a piece that might get to motivate but he s now speaking of mental illness, which certainly in many mat shootings has been a component but it raises a question we don t have the answer to, is he somehow conflating mental illness with white nationalism or acts of terrorism, which