SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Sunday urged government officials to take serious action to control gun-related crime in the wake of two deadly shootings that killed 29 people in Texas and Ohio states.
"While we grieve for the victims of these mass shootings across our country, we know they are the result of the failure of elected officials to enact #GunControlNow. It does not have to be like this," Breed tweeted Sunday.
The San Francisco mayor was responding to two separate mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, where 20 people were killed during a back-to-school shopping season, and in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio, where at least nine people were dead in a shooting hours after the El Paso massacre.
The two shootings were the latest gun-related crimes in about a week after a gunman shot and killed three people, including a six-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, at an annual garlic festival in Gilroy city, about 129 km south of San Francisco, on July 28.
Mass shootings, which have become chillingly common nationwide in the United States, are once again cutting deep scars, new and old, into the American society.
A Twitter user who identifies himself as a Christian, said Sunday that more actions are needed instead of "thoughts and prayers."
"Faith is DEAD without action," he tweeted.
Another Twitter user Faunia said in a tweet, "Texas and Ohio in less than 24 hours. 29 victims...We don't need a wall. We need gun control."
