Taking Stock: US Remains in Congressional Deadlock on Gun Reform as Shootings Reach Historic Levels

The mass shooting that left 19 students and two adults dead at Texas’ Robb Elementary School on Tuesday is regarded as the US’ deadliest shooting since last week’s racially-motivated massacre of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, and the nation’s deadliest school shooting since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre that resulted in 27 deaths.