Guns are the number one killer of children in the United States of America.

The number one killer, more than car actions, more than cancer.

Over the last two decades, more school-aged children have died from guns

than on-duty police officers and active duty military combined. Think about that.

More kids than on-duty cops killed by guns.

More kids than soldiers killed by guns.

For God's sake. How much more current is your will in to accept?

It's 8.19 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, June 2nd, and this is the NPR Politics podcast.

I'm Tamar Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Kelsey Snally, cover Congress.

And I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent.

What you just heard there was a bit of a primetime address that President Biden just concluded

and addressed to the nation on gun violence.

My fellow Americans, enough.

Enough is time for each of us to do our part. It's time to act.

For the children we've lost, the children we can save.

For the nation we love.

Let's hear the call on the cry. Let's meet the moment. Let us finally do something.

He denounced the American epidemic of mass shootings and called on Congress to pass a number

of specific gun control measures. And before we get into those specifics, I just want to ask both

of you, what did you get from the speech? What do you think President Biden's goal was and did he

hit it? I think he hit it. He was channeling the outrage and exhaustion of Americans who

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