Fox News anchor Shep Smith began his Monday show with an impassioned plea about gun violence, following the weekend’s two mass shootings.

“Yet again in America,” Smith began. “Uniquely American, this happens with regularity in large numbers as a pattern just here. Nowhere else. Granted, mass shootings like the ones in El Paso and in Dayton represent only a small fraction of our nation’s gun violence. But attacks like these that are more traumatizing perhaps because after the fact we can all put ourselves there, we can picture ourselves at a crowded Walmart on tax-free day, scooping up school supplies as kids run about the crowded aisles. We can relate to being at a bar late on a summer Saturday, having a conversation and a laugh with some friends.”