Good morning, I'm Arjun saying from the Washington Post, and this is the Daily 202 for Wednesday

March 24th.

In today's news, Vivek Murphy is confirmed as search in general, and North Korea fires

short-range missiles in a challenge to the Biden administration.

But first, the big idea.

Less than a week after President Biden condemned a series of shootings in the Atlanta

area, he once again lamented his shooting, this time at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.

Another American city has been scarred by gun violence in the resulting trauma, the President

said, before calling on the Senate to pass two bills already passed by the House that

would strengthen background check laws and calling on them to reenact an assault weapons

ban.

But in a grim sense of deja vu, it's a position the nation has been in before.

As my colleague Philip Bump reports, the country had an average of seven mass shootings

a year from 2012 to 2020.

And while the past year has been an aberration, possibly due to the lack of public gatherings

in response to the pandemic, the Post Danielle Rindler reports that since last March, 22 other

people have been killed in shootings in places like Illinois, North Carolina, and Missouri.

While mass shootings became reoccurring events during the Obama and Trump administrations,

little federal action was taken to control the flow of guns throughout the country.

But this time, things might be different.

President Biden and his calls for gun control are speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, both of whom command majorities in each chamber that

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