After a series of serious gun attacks, 14 people were killed by gun violence in the United States over the weekend.
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, assailants who had not yet been caught shot around in a nightlife area on Saturday evening, killing three people and injuring twelve others.
The cause of the crime is said to have been a dispute.
On Sunday night, three people died in an attack in a bar in Chattanooga, Tennessee;
two were shot dead and a third was run over by a car as he fled.
According to local media reports, three people were shot dead and two others injured in the town of Saginaw, Michigan.
Five more people were killed in four gun attacks in South Carolina, Arizona and Georgia over the weekend.
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego wrote on Twitter after the death of a 14-year-old girl on Saturday: "Looks like we won't go a day without another gun attack." After three massacres in a supermarket, an elementary school and a hospital with a total of 33 deaths in May, the debate about stricter gun laws has flared up again in America.
President Joe Biden, who urged action in a speech on Thursday, renewed his call on Sunday for a ban on semi-automatic weapons or at least an increase in the age limit from 18 to 21.
In the Senate, a group led by Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy and Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn is trying to reach a bipartisan compromise for tougher gun laws.
Traditionally, Republicans refuse to make such advances;
Ten Republicans must vote to pass a bill.
Murphy was cautiously hopeful on CNN on Sunday.
"I've never been involved in negotiations as serious as this one." Most likely are more moderate steps, such as stricter background checks on gun buyers.