No federal gun control measure has passed since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook a decade ago.
The now largely forgotten assault weapons ban ended in 2004. It was passed in the wake of another school shooting.
Here & Now host Peter O’Dowd talks to Robert Spitzer, professor emeritus at the State University of New York Cortland and the author of “The Politics of Gun Control.”
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