Listeners are certainly aware of never ending US gun violence. For example, since 37, moreover 4th grade children, were shot with 19 killed in Uvalde, Texas on May 24th, there have subsequently been at least 14 subsequent mass shootings killing at least 10 and wounding another 61. Over the past ten years, or since the Sandy Hook , there have been 950 subsequent school shootings. Concerning federal policy, via the so called (Jay) Dickey amendment the Congress effectively banned the CDC from researching gun violence between 1996 and 2020. Presently, it does not appear the Senate will act to pass substantive and widely popular policies designed to reduce gun violence. As the British journalist, Dan Hodges, concluded in 2015, "in retrospect, Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over."