President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass gun control laws at the end of his speech.
How much more carnage do we want to accept? How many more innocent Americans must be killed before we stop? He said it was time enough.
Three minutes later, the first calls came in from Ames, Iowa.
Another shooting took place.
One person is believed to be the shooter who killed three people in a parking lot outside of a church.
The program was going on at the church, according to the Register. The Salt Company, the church's youth ministry, is held on Thursdays.
Recent mass shootings have shaken the nation and spurred renewed calls for Congress to do something about gun control.
At an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, 21 people were killed on May 24. The vice president went to Buffalo, New York, where a white man killed 10 people at a Tops supermarket.
There were at least three shootings on Wednesday.
Biden called on Congress to pass gun control measures, including universal background check legislation, a ban on assault weapons, and a national "red flag" law to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
Republicans have refused to acknowledge that easy access to guns is a problem, even though they have opposed restrictions on gun ownership. They blamed mass shooting on buildings with too many doors, liberal teachers and not enough God in people's lives.
Some Republican members of Congress argue that laws that restrict access to guns are useless because criminals will break the law anyways.
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