world. it is tuesday, may 31st. and i m brianna keilar with john berman. america has seen 17 more mass shootings since 19 children and two teachers were killed in one of the nation s deadliest school shootings last week. in those other shootings, 13 people were killed. dozens more were injured this is according to the gun violence archive which defines a mass shooting as four or more people being shot or killed not including the shooter. new this morning, cnn has obtained video from a facebook live stream during the uvalde shooting of a frantic radio call. listen to this. are you injured? i got shot. where? where? a kid got shot. although it sounds like the voice of a child it s not clear whether it s student or law enforcement officer. the man who recorded this said the audio came from a radio in a customs and border protection vehicle outside the school. happening today, a bipartisan group of senators will meet virtually to discuss gun shafety legislation. the
violence reports, shooting involving these weapons often result in more shots fired more victims. that s why people are concerned about assault weapon bans. they say these are the guns that people choose when they want the large-scale attacks. when you look at the numbers from the johns hopkins center, you can see before the ban pre1994, this was a level of different assaults. like a pistol using a large magazine. during the ban, almost nothing. after the ban from 2004 on. look at the giant growth here. tricky, you have to bear in mind, as big as these numbers are, over this period of time, these are small numbers. so it s sort of hard to put together exactly the impact but advocates for gun control look at this and say, it s obvious a ban on assault weapons would make a difference. now, since the federal ban