President Joe Biden urged Congress to work toward a bipartisan solution on gun violence on Monday, one day after visiting the Texas town where a gunman took the lives of 19 elementary school children and their two teachers last week.

‘I think things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about it – at least that’s my hope and prayer,’ the president told reporters outside of the White House.

Biden recounted been shown x-rays of what a firearm could do to the human body.

‘The .22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lungs and we can get it out. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body,’ he said. ‘The idea of a high caliber weapon, there is no rationale for it in terms of self-protection, hunting.’

A 9mm bullet is typically known as the ammo used in handguns – the most common type to conceal carry. It’s not clear if Biden misspoke to mean a higher-caliber weapon such as the ones used in the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde. …………