President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.
"When in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?" Biden said at the White House shortly after returning from a five-day trip to Asia that was bookended by tragedy.With first lady Jill Biden standing by his side in the Roosevelt Room, Biden added,"I am sick and tired. We have to act."
The back-to-back tragedies served as sobering reminders of the frequency and brutality of an American epidemic of mass gun violence.Since 2017, mass shootings in the United States -- described as shooting incidents in which at least four people are injured or killed -- have nearly doubled year over year. Already, there have been 212 mass shooting incidents in 2022 -- a 50% increase from 141 shootings in May 2017. The graphic above shows the number of shooting incidents per state.
"We have to have the courage to take action ... to ensure something like this never happens again," she said.
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