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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday renewed her call for Republicans in Congress to get behind a bill to ban so-called assault weapons – after senior lawmakers expressed doubt there was sufficient support to enact any major new measures after the Nashville school shooting. 

'We need gun safety laws, comprehensive gun safety laws. We need to ban assault rifles, those weapons of war do not belong on our streets,' she told MSNBC Tuesday. 'They do not belong in schools ... This is unacceptable. You're going to continue to hear from the president call this out,' she said.

She spoke a day after she said at the White House that 'enough is enough' following the mass shooting at The Covenant School outside Nashville – the latest in a long line of school shootings. Her comments Tuesday came on a day when authorities released chilling body cam footage of the shooting that left six people dead.

Jean-Pierre spoke from the White House grounds after Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who helped broker the most extensive gun legislation in years in the last Congress, said there was little appetite to do more legislatively in the wake of still more shootings. 

'I would say we've gone about as far as we can go unless somebody identifies some area that we didn't address,' Cornyn said Monday. He was asked specifically about taking additional steps on background checks for gun purchasers.

Jean-Pierre rejected that posture in a separate interview on CNN. 'We should not be saying there's nothing else to do. We should be trying to figure out what else there can be to do,' she said. 

Jean-Pierre spoke about her own family and said she 'hugged my 8-year-old just a little bit tighter' after the news. 'I was one of the lucky ones. Like many of Americans, I was one of the lucky ones last night. You know why? My daughter came home from

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