Gun deregulation in the U.S.

Published May 26, 2022 at 5:00 AM EDT

Investigators search for evidences outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Desperation turned to heart-wrenching sorrow for families of grade schoolers killed after an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in their Texas classroom and began shooting, killing several fourth-graders and their teachers.

An elementary school in Uvalde, Texas is the latest site of a mass shooting in the U. S. claiming the lives of 19 children and two adults. This comes two weeks after a racially motivated shooter in Buffalo, New York took the lives of 10 people at a supermarket. With mass shootings on the rise, why are more states relaxing their gun laws?

We’ll look at the history of gun deregulation in the U.S.

GUESTS:

Darrell Miller, Law professor and Co-Director of the Center for Firearms Law, Duke University School of Law
Anna Staver, statehouse reporter, USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau
Cassandra Crifasi, Deputy Director of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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