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Mass shootings lead to widening divide on state gun policies

McKynzi Douglas, right, stands with her parents, John and Janay Douglas, outside their home on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, in St. Louis, Mo. McKynzi and other students of Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis recently returned to school for the first time since fleeing from a shooting last October that killed two and wounded seven. (AP Photo/Jim Salter) FILE - Michael Anderson, survivor of the Club Q shooting, testifies before a House Oversight Committee hearing on Dec. 14, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File) FILE - Family of those killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, stand with Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez during a news conference at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 24, 2023. Gutierrez says he is filing legislation in the wake of Texas' rising gun violence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) FILE - Reggie Daniels pays his respects a memorial at Robb Elementary School on June 9, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas, created to honor the victims killed in the recent school shooting. As mass shootings are again drawing public attention, states across the U.S. seem to be deepening their political divide on gun policies. A series of recent mass shootings in California come after a third straight year in which U.S. states recorded more than 600 mass shootings involving at least four deaths or injuries. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) FILE - School staff cheer as students returned to in-person classes at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis on Jan. 17, 2023. The Oct. 24 shooting was among the deadliest school shootings in the U.S. last year. Tenth-grader Alexzandria Bell and 61-year-old physical education teacher Jean Kuczka died before police killed the gunman, former student Orlando Harris, in an exchange of gunfire. (AP Photo/Jim Salter, File) Missouri Senate President pro tempore Caleb Rowden speaks to reporters on Jan. 19, 2023, at the Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. Rowden, a Republican, said he doesn't think there's any chance the Senate will pass legislation creating a red-flag law, which would allow authorities to temporarily remove guns from people posing a risk. Democrats have proposed the bill in response to an October school shooting in St. Louis. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb) McKynzi Douglas, center, sits with her parents, John and Janay Douglas, inside their home on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, in St. Louis, Mo. McKynzi and other students of Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis recently returned to school for the first time since fleeing from a shooting last October that killed two and wounded seven. (AP Photo/Jim Salter) FILE - A woman cries at a cross for one of the victims of Saturday's fatal shooting at Club Q during a candlelight vigil on a corner near the site of the gay bar on Nov. 21, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. As mass shootings are again drawing public attention, states across the U.S. seem to be deepening their political divide on gun policies. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File) McKynzi Douglas stands next to a memorial poster of her friend Alexzandria Bell, displayed in her home in St. Louis, Mo., on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Douglas fled without injury, but Bell was killed in an Oct. 24 shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jim Salter) FILE - Garnell Whitfield, Jr., of Buffalo, N.Y., whose mother, Ruth Whitfield, was killed in the Buffalo Tops supermarket mass shooting, wipes away tears as he testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on domestic terrorism on June 7, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. As mass shootings are again drawing public attention, states across the U.S. seem to be deepening their political divide on gun policies. A series of recent mass shootings in California come after a third straight year in which U.S. states recorded more than 600 mass shootings involving at least four deaths or injuries. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) FILE - Felicia Martinez, mother of Xavier Lopez who was killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, tries to hold back tears after speaking at a news conference at the Texas Capitol with Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 24, 2023. Gutierrez says he is filing legislation in the wake of Texas' rising gun violence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Mass shootings lead to widening divide on state gun policies