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In June of 2022, just after Memorial Day, President Biden gave the first major gun control speech

of his presidency.

He had just come back from Uvalde, Texas, where 21 people had been killed by a mass shooter.

And 12 days before that, he'd gone to Buffalo, New York, where a gunman had murdered ten

people in a grocery store.

At both places, we spent hours with hundreds of family members who were broken, whose

lives will never be the same.

They had one message for all of us, do something, just do something for God's sake, do something.

I know that we can't prevent every tragedy, but here's what I believe we have to do.

Here's what the overwhelming majority of American people believe we must do.

Here's what the families in Buffalo and Uvalde in Texas told us we must do.

We need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

President Obama made the same plea.

Here he is talking about the 2012 shooting in Aurora, Colorado, where a gunman with an assault

rifle killed 12 people and wounded another 58.

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