June 4, 2022

Debates about gun control have been raging in the United States as a string of mass shootings in recent weeks have shaken the country. But prospects of addressing the violence are dim.

Over 200 mass shootings have occurred in the U.S. in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group. On Wednesday, a gunman killed four people at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A day later, two women were shot dead by a man outside a church in Ames, Iowa. 

While Thursday's incident does not count as a mass shooting, which applies if four or more people, excluding the gunman, are shot, it came moments after U.S. President Joe Biden addressed the horrifying number of mass shootings in an appeal to Congress. 

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