119 school shootings since 2018. 39 shootings in 2022 alone. HR 8 (the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021) supported by 90% of the population, 227-203 in the House in 2021 (passed) but failed 54-46 in the Senate.

When are we going to do something? I am tired. I am so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families out there. I’m tired of the moments of silence. Enough. … So I ask you, Mitch McConnell and all of you senators who refuse to do anything about the violence and the school shootings and the supermarkets shootings — I ask you, are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children and our elderly and our church-goers? Because that’s what it looks like. That’s what we do every week. I’m fed up. I’ve had enough. We can’t get numb to this. We can’t sit here and just read about it and say let’s have a moment of silence.

Steve Kerr, basketball coach whose father was shot and killed in a 1984 at the American University of Beirut