"Sadly, while talking about perceived threats to the safety of the American people, he completely ignored the gun violence epidemic that is claiming lives across the country," she said.
The president did not broadly discuss recent mass shootings during his roughly 80-minute speech. He did reference last October's shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 people dead, though he spoke about the tragedy in the context of confronting anti-Semitism.
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The above quotations are from 2019 State of the Union address to Congress, plus the Democratic response, Feb. 6, 2019.
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