"When you have that kind of broad public support for legislation that will make everyone safer and it still can't get through the Senate, the problem is with weak-willed leaders who care more about their campaign coffers than children in coffins," Biden wrote.

The looks on their faces as legislators told them guns matter more than lives is heartbreaking.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson asserted over the weekend that a ban on military-style assault weapons would have have been ineffective at stopping the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando because the shooter could have used a "crock pot" instead.