While politicians stifled a debate on guns for 15 hours, 48 people were shot in the US

While US politicians led a 15-hour filibuster on gun control in America, 48 people died from gun violence.

Over Wednesday and Thursday senator Chris Murphy led fellow Democrats in a lengthy filibuster - prolonged action in legislative proceedings that obstructs progress in a way that doesn't technically impede normal procedures (so just talking for ages, basically) - in the wake of the horrific Orlando massacre.

Many politicians recounted stories of gun violence to the senate. Following the terrorist attack in Florida, in which 29-year-old Omar Mateen entered the LGBT Pulse nightclub and killed 49 people and injured many more, President Obama also called for tighter gun control.

The debate will continue. Some - especially Republicans and the well organised and financed National Rifle Association (NRA) - will argue for the Second Amendment, the right the bear arms.

Others will question why it's okay that weapons are so easily acquired - particularly guns such as assault rifles.

And it's the below statistic, compiled by Vox, which speaks volumes.

Guns kill, on average, 36 people every day in the US. During the filibuster, there was a shooting every 23 minutes.

Here are some words from Barack Obama:

We are the only country on Earth that sees mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency. It doesn't happen in other countries. It's not even close. And like I said, somehow, we become numb to it, and we start thinking that this is normal. And instead of thinking about how to solve the problem, this has become one of our most partisan, polarized debates.

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