WAMC News Podcast - Episode 185

March 24, 2021 00:11:20
WAMC News Podcast - Episode 185
WAMC News Podcast
WAMC News Podcast - Episode 185

Mar 24 2021 | 00:11:20

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Show Notes

Mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia in recent days are once again calling spurring calls for new gun control measures. U.S. Senate Democrats say they are pushing toward a vote this week, and President Joe Biden says “we have to act,” urging Congress to close loopholes in the background check system. The man who wrote Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation “red flag” gun law in 1999 says such measures work to prevent gun violence. Mike Lawlor, now a criminal justice professor at the University of New Haven, is a former longtime Democratic member of the Connecticut House. He also served in the Malloy administration, working on criminal justice policy. (more…)

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