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The past few weeks in the United States have seen a series of mass shootings. A racially motivated attack in Buffalo, a school shooting in Texas where 19 children and their two teachers were shot dead, and an attack in a hospital in Oklahoma.

On Thursday night while President Joe Biden was making a passionate plea for gun reform, reflecting on his visit to the school massacre reports were coming in of another shooting at a church in Ames in Iowa where two people and the gunman were killed.

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh told Newsday why many on the right believe reform is not the answer.

鈥淏oth sides need to cool it with the extreme positions. I鈥檓 a gun owner and I love guns. I think we should have universal background checks in this country. The National Rifle Association doesn鈥檛 want to give an inch, and they still have great sway over the Republican party.鈥�

(Pic: President Biden addresses nation on gun control; Credit: Reuters)