(In 2020, the CDC said that guns are now the leading cause of death for children, after overtaking car accidents.)

President Donald Trump's then-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney shut down Trump's desire to restrict assault rifles in a previously-unreported September 2019 meeting following mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, The New York Times reported on Friday.

"What are we going to do about assault rifles?" Trump asked in the wake of the El Paso shooting, where a right-wing gunman acting on hatred against Hispanic people killed 23 people at a Walmart and injured over 20 more.

"Not a damn thing," Mulvaney said, according to The Times.