No more \'thoughts and prayers\,\' time to act: Northam

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Virginia's Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, on Tuesday called on the state's Republican-controlled legislature to reconvene in a special session to consider new gun control laws following a massacre of 12 people last week.

"It is wrong, it is outrageous, it is unforgivable to turn our municipal centers, our schools, our churches and synagogues and mosques, into battlefields," Northam wrote on Twitter ahead of a news conference.

"No one should go to work, to school, or to church wondering if they will come home." Northam has previously faced resistance from the Republican-controlled legislature to increase restrictions on guns.

A Virginia Beach city engineer shot dead 12 people at a municipal building on Friday in one of the deadliest workplace shootings seen in the United States.