Biden spoke about the lives lost in some of the nation's most prolific mass shootings, saying that long after the media attention dies down, the horror remains forever.
"The lives lost don't tell the whole story. They don't tell us of the loved ones who must live with the black hole of grief inside them," she said.
Almost 50,000 people died from gun-related deaths in 2021, and guns are also now the leading cause of death for children and teenagers. Here in the Bay Area, two mass shootings happened just this past weekend -- one in San Francisco's Mission District, and one in Antioch.
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