The front page of the local newspaper in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26, 2022.Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images) Monika L. McDermott, Fordham University and David R. Jones, Baruch College, CUNY 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, Connecticut, legislation introduced in response to mass killings has consistently failed to pass the Senate. We asked political scientists Monika McDermott and David Jones to h…
