How will state lawmakers react after tragic school shooting in Texas?

On May 24, America experienced another horrible mass shooting. An
18-year-old gunman in Uvalde, Texas, massacred 19 students and two
teachers at Robb Elementary School. Salvador Ramos opened fire with
an AR-15-style assault rifle in a fourth-grade classroom before an
officer killed him to end the rampage. It is the
deadliest school shooting since the one at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.  The
violence in Texas still shocks, but it doesn’t feel new. The
political response seemed more combative, more quickly, in
another sign of America’s all-too-familiar political stalemate over
gun violence. Polling shows large majorities of Americans favor at
least some greater restrictions on access to firearms, yet the
issue is scarcely discussed on Capitol Hill. At the state level,
it’s a different story. In this week's episode of The
Gaggle, a politics podcast by The Arizona Republic and
azcentral.com, host Ron Hansen is joined by Republic reporter
Rafael Carranza, who reported from Uvalde. UCLA professor
Christopher Poliquin also joined the show to discuss
how lawmakers react to these tragedies.  Learn more about your
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