The United States has faced two mass shootings less than one week apart.

And though the shootings in Georgia and Colorado might seem related to the beginning of the

end of this pandemic, the reality is that gun violence in the US didn't actually let

up this past year.

According to data from the gun violence archive, nearly 20,000 Americans died from gun violence

in 2020.

That's more than any other year in at least two decades.

And yet, in order to see action around gun reform in Washington, or at least conversations

about action in Washington, it often takes the horror of a deadly mass shooting rising

to the forefront of American discourse.

In response to the horrific events in Georgia and Colorado, President Biden has called for

tightening of the country's gun laws.

But we've been here with presidents before.

A tragedy spurs conversations about changes in gun policy and waste preventive shootings

but over and over again across democratic and Republican administrations, middle reform

actually happens.

And we find ourselves back where we started, watching another tragedy play out.

Biden, like president's Trump and Obama before him, has now promised change.

He's considering executive actions to address gun safety and he's called on Congress to send

him legislation to strengthen background checks and to reenact a federal assault weapons

ban.

But before any legislation can even get to Biden's desk, it would need to pass through

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