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    Inside America's latest efforts to curb gun violence

    This year there have been significant legislative efforts to curb gun violence in the U.S. ... including passage of the first federal gun reform bill in three decades. Will it work?
    Aug 26, 2022 5 minutes
    The lawn outside the U.S. Capitol is covered with 7,000 pairs of empty shoes to memorialize the 7,000 children killed by gun violence since the Sandy Hook school shooting, in a display organized by the global advocacy group Avaaz, in Washington, DC, March 13, 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

    Mass shooting after mass shooting, the federal government took no action.

    “I’m here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees to beg my colleagues,” Sen. Chris Murphy said. “Find a path forward here, work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely.”

    A month after Senator Chris Murphy made that impassioned speech President Biden signed a gun reform bill into law – the first federal gun legislation to pass in three decades.

    For families who’ve lost loved ones to gun violence, it was a defining moment:

    “When I knew what we did was going to save lives,” Fred Guttenberg said. “All I could do was think about a parent who I will never get to meet because their child didn’t get shot. And I cried like a baby over that.”

    Today, : America’s to curb gun violence.

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