There have been gun killings in 43 of the 50 US states in the two weeks since the Texas school shooting.
More than 650 incidents have resulted in 730 deaths since 24 May, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.
Twenty-three of those who died were children, more than the total number who died in Uvalde, and 66 were teenagers.
The figures provide the deeply troubling context for politicians on Capitol Hill as they struggle to find common ground over how, or even if, to reform America’s gun laws.
Politicians will hear testimony from the parents and survivors of the school shooting in Uvalde two weeks ago.
The witnesses will include 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo who smeared her dead friend’s blood on herself. She played dead to survive.
The hearing by the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee is titled ‘The Urgent Need to Address the Gun Violence Epidemic’ and comes as Republican and Democratic politicians remain divided over the extent to which gun laws should be changed.
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