Why gun control laws don't pass Congress, despite majority public support and repeated outrage over mass shootings
- Written by Monika L. McDermott, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
The front page of the local newspaper in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26, 2022. Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images)With the carnage in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York in May 2022, calls have begun again for Congress to enact gun control. Since the 2012 massacre of 20 children and four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,...