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Those poor folks who died left behind families and leaves a big hole in their hearts.

Another mass shooting in the United States, shocks and numbs, with ten more killed, we ask

an expert and the father of a student massacre at Columbine

will America ever find its way out of this state.

Then, amid a deadly COVID anniversary in the UK, MP Jeff Phillips joins us on the everyday violence and killing of women, also ahead.

Not with a bang but with a wimper, not in fire but in ice that's accurate that's how it's going to happen

astrophysicist Neil degrass Tyson solves the great mysteries of the universe with our Walter Isaacson. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.

Powerful words condemning yet another I'm against the killings last night in Boulder, Colorado.

Obama had been visibly saddened and angered by the slaughter of children

at Sandy Hook during his term and the lack of any legislation afterwards.

Today he was moved to say,

it's long past time for those with power

to fight this epidemic of gun violence.

We can overcome opposition by cowardly politicians and the pressure of a gun lobby

that opposes any limit on the ability of anyone to assemble an arsenal.

We can and we must. Later President Joe Biden agreed.

I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save the lives in the future and to urge

my colleagues in the House and Senate to act.

We can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again.

I got that done when I was a senator.

It passed. It was law for the longest time.

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