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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Grim body count unlikely to be enough for Republicans to act on gun reform

Joe Biden: ‘After Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Charleston, after Orlando, after Las Vegas, after Parkland, nothing has been done. This time, that can’t be true. This time, we must actually do something.
Joe Biden said that after previous mass shootings ‘nothing has been done. This time, that can’t be true.’ Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

“Enough!”

Joe Biden repeated that word 11 times during a televised address to the American people on Thursday night as he lamented how schools and other public places in the US have been turned into “killing fields” by gun violence.

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