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Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said there needs to be a national ban on “assault weapons” when reacting to a Catholic school shooting in Minnesota.Klobuchar said, “As you reported, he is dead, but more will, I’m sure, come out about his motive and why he would commit such a horrific act. Of course makes me think about guns and all the work we’ve done to ban these automatic rifles and to do something when it comes to the background checks and everything, and we keep getting thwarted. we were able to pass a limited measure...

President Joe Biden released a statement Tuesday on the Michigan State University attack and he called for an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, universal background checks, and myriad other gun controls. The type of firearm used in the MSU attack has not yet been reported by police, nor has the means by which the attacker acquired said gun. Biden noted the MSU attack occurred one day before the fifth anniversary of the Parkland high school shooting, saying, “The fact that this shooting took place the night before this country marks five years since the deadly shooting at...

The latest shooting victim in Philadelphia is a little girl too young to truly appreciate what a gun is. Police said the girl, 4, whose name was not released, was wounded in a shoot-out around 7:15 p.m. on the 2100 block of Sigel Street in South Philadelphia - a narrow street just south of Point Breeze that neighbors said is often saturated with youngsters playing outdoors. The child was in critical condition last night at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with a gunshot wound to her left femur. "What threshold do we have to hit before people start to realize how...