It’s been a heartbreaking day as the nation mourns the 59 people killed in Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. It has become the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and left many people with questions about why tragedies like this are a routine occurrence in America.

On Monday, ESPN’s Rachel Nichols took a moment before the start of The Jump and spoke movingly about the need to keep working together to end gun violence in America.

“We want to acknowledge the tragedy in Las Vegas. Officials say this is the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a phrase I guess they’re getting used to because it was only 14 months ago they were saying that about the shooting in Orlando. The Orlando shooting claimed more lives that Virginia Tech, now this one claims more lives than what happened in Orlando…I don’t know how we’re going to solve the debate about guns in this country, I just know that while we’re all arguing the body counts keep going up and more and more families are suffering.

Nichols acknowledged that she had no easy answers and that the debate about gun violence in America is not an easy one, but it is something that needs to be talked about.

“We owe it to the families mourning today to do the hard work of figuring it out.”

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