The Supreme Court could potentially expand second amendment rights as it takes a look at a New York law.

Currently, New York law requires people seeking a concealed carry license to show a “proper cause.”

In 2008, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep arms at home for self-defense.

Now a new case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association vs. Bruen, questions whether handguns can be carried in public for self-defense.

In order to conceal carry, New Yorkers must prove that they have a great need for the license and that they face a “unique danger” to their life.

Conservative justices are in favor of striking down the New York law, arguing that it goes too far and imposes a burden on the Second Amendment.

Some justices are open to considering to allowing New York to ban guns from crowded places.

Arguments were held in November, months before a gunman opened fire at a Buffalo grocery store and killed 10, and another opened fire at a Texas elementary school and killed 21.

A decision from the Supreme Court is expected in the coming weeks.

Giants manager Gabe Kapler said that he will no longer participate in pregame national anthem ceremonies following last week’s mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.

The Giants’ skipper wrote that his dad inspired him to protest when the country is not representing its people well.

“I’m often struck before our games by the lack of delivery of the promise of what our national anthem represents,” he wrote. “We stand in honor of a country where we elect representatives to serve us, to thoughtfully consider and enact legislation that protects the interests of all the people in this country and to move this country forward towards the vision of the “shining city on the hill.” But instead, we thoughtlessly link our moment of silence and grief with the equally thoughtless display of celebration for a country that refuses to take up the concept of controlling the sale of weapons used nearly exclusively for the mass slaughter of human beings.”

“We have our moment (over and over), and then we move on without demanding real change from the people we empower to make these changes. We stand, we bow our heads, and the people in power leave on recess, celebrating their own patriotism at every turn.

“Every time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I’m participating in a self-congratulatory glorification of the ONLY country where these mass shootings take place. On Wednesday, I walked out onto the field, I listened to the announcement as we honored the victims in Uvalde. I bowed my head. I stood for the national anthem. Metallica riffed on City Connect guitars.”

According to ESPN, many fellow MLB managers commended Kapler, but none said they would be willing to join him in protest.

“I think he's exactly right to be concerned ... with what's happening in our country," White Sox manager Tony La Russa said. "He's right there. Where I disagree is the flag and the anthem are not appropriate places to try to voice your objections."

Unlike the NFL, NBA and MLS, MLB has not had large-scale protests during the national anthem. Colin Kapernick, who made his living in San Francisco as a member of the 49ers, kneeled for the national anthem in 2016 to protest the treatment of Black people by the government.

Kaepernick’s protests were politically divisive, and many argued that the demonstration led to him getting blacklisted by the NFL following the 2016 season. The result was a settlement between Kaepernick and the NFL in 2019.

CINCINNATI —

Update: 6:40 p.m.

The senate committee voted to advance House Bill 99 after hearing testimony from both sides of the issue during a four-hour session on Tuesday. The bill will be moved to the Rules and Regulations committee for further deliberation.

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Among those who think it's not a smart move to make it easier for Ohio teachers to carry guns is 15-year-old Katherine Hiland.

"More guns in schools only increases the access that students have to guns," Hiland said. "And I would know best. I'm a teenager. We get up to a lot of trouble even when we don't mean to."

Hiland testified before an Ohio Senate committee Tuesday in Columbus. The committee is considering House Bill 99, which would cut the training hours for school staff to be certified to carry guns in a school from 700 to 20.

"We were absolutely just sickened," Michelle Mueller said.

Mueller is part of a gun safety group called Moms Demand Action. She said having more teachers with more weapons would be a serious step backward for Ohio.

"Our teachers are not, didn't sign up for this job to be sharpshooters," Mueller said. "They will tell you in their own voice. They are there to educate our children."

Mueller said a better option is to expand background checks on gun buyers and to create a Red Flag law. Those are laws to keep guns out of the hands of people considered dangerous by loved ones and the legal system.

"The things that we know for certain is when these events happen in every school, there are certain staff who are going to give up their lives to buy these kids a few more seconds of life." Joe Eaton said.

Eaton, with Buckeye Firearms, is a big proponent of making it simpler for educators to carry a gun. He says an armed teacher can make a difference if an active shooter suddenly appears.

"Even if the staff is able to confront them, it changes their focus - from the innocent people to the person confronting them. And that, in and of itself, saves lives," he said. "Teachers are willing to do that. We need to give them the opportunity to go home to their families at the end of the night also."

Ohio's change in gun training is because of a state Supreme Court ruling. The justices ruled last year that because the General Assembly did not mandate specific requirements, that teachers would have to have the same training as police — about 700 hours. The bill being debated in Columbus lowers that number to 20 hours.

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — State police say the Robb Elementary School teacher who propped open an exterior door that a gunman used to get inside and kill 19 students and two teachers had closed the door, but it did not lock.

Investigators initially said the teacher propped the door open with a rock and did not remove it before 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the building on May 24.

Travis Considine, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said Tuesday that investigators had determined the teacher removed the rock and closed the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus but that it did not lock.

The teacher has not been identified.

According to Considine, the teacher initially propped open the door but ran back inside to grab her phone to call 911 when Ramos crashed his truck.

Considine added that the teacher then came back outside, and while on the phone, she heard someone yell that he had a gun.

She then watched Ramos jump the fence and saw that he had a gun. She then removed the rock and ran back inside, Considine said.

Considine said they did verify that the teacher closed the door and that it did not lock.

He added that investigators are looking into why the door did not lock.

UVALDE, Texas —

The school district police chief who served as on-site commander during last week's deadly shooting in Uvalde said Wednesday that he's talking daily with investigators, contradicting claims from state law enforcement that he's stopped cooperating.

In a brief interview, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo told CNN that he's speaking regularly with Texas Department of Public Safety investigators.

"I’ve been on the phone with them every day,” Arredondo said.

Nineteen children and two teachers died in the attack at Robb Elementary School, the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. State officials have said 19 police officers waited outside the classroom where Salvador Ramos, 18, had opened fire, despite repeated pleas from children calling 911 for help.

Travis Considine, chief communications officer for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said Tuesday that Arredondo had not responded to DPS requests for two days, while other officers in the Uvalde city and schools police departments continue to sit for interviews and provide statements.

Arredondo has not responded to multiple requests for comment from The Associated Press.

The confusing and sometimes contradictory responses in the week since the deadly shooting continued Tuesday with the revelation that the exterior door used by the gunman was not left propped open by a teacher, as police previously said.

They have now determined that the teacher, who has not been identified, propped the door open with a rock, but then removed the rock and closed the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus, Considine said. But, Considine said, the door that was designed to lock when shut did not lock.

“We did verify she closed the door. The door did not lock. We know that much and now investigators are looking into why it did not lock,” Considine said.

Investigators confirmed the detail through additional video footage reviewed since Friday's news conference when authorities first said that the door had been left propped open. Authorities did not state at that time what had been used to prop open the door.

Video: Funerals begin for Uvalde victims

Considine said the teacher initially propped the door open but ran back inside to get her phone and call 911 when Ramos crashed his truck on campus.

"She came back out while on her phone, she heard someone yell, 'He has a gun!', she saw him jump the fence and that he had a gun, so she ran back inside," removing the rock when she did, Considine said.

Steve McCraw, the head of DPS, hadn’t said why the teacher initially propped open the door when it was first detailed Friday. The first mention of a door left propped open, which officials now say didn't happen, led to questions about the teacher's actions and whether she had made a horrific mistake.

Since the shooting, law enforcement and state officials have struggled to present an accurate timeline and details of the event and how police responded, sometimes providing conflicting information or withdrawing some statements hours later. State police have said some accounts were preliminary and may change as more witnesses are interviewed.

San Antonio attorney Don Flanary told the San Antonio Express-News that the Robb Elementary School employee, whom he’s not naming, first propped open the door to carry food from a car to a classroom, and that she immediately moved to close it when she realized the danger.

"She kicked the rock away when she went back in. She remembers pulling the door closed while telling 911 that he was shooting," Flanary told the newspaper.

"She thought the door would lock because that door is always supposed to be locked,” Flanary said.

Video: Flowers, tears as Bidens stop at Uvalde memorial

Flanary did not immediately return telephone messages left at his office from The Associated Press.

Later Tuesday, the Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas, which represents police officers, urged its member officers to cooperate with "all government investigations" into the shooting and police response and endorsed a federal probe already announced by the Justice Department.

The organization was also sharply critical of the constantly changing narrative of events that has emerged so far.

"There has been a great deal of false and misleading information in the aftermath of this tragedy. Some of the information came from the very highest levels of government and law enforcement," CLEAT said. "Sources that Texans once saw as iron-clad and completely reliable have now been proven false."

The Uvalde Little League team has returned to play in recent weeks after several of its players were killed in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24.

Opponents have provided tributes to the community, and other little league teams nationwide have honored the young ballplayers lost. The league’s age 9-11 baseball squad, which was the age of many of the students killed in the shooting, qualified for this weekend’s sectional playoff.

Even members of the Houston Astros have joined in the tributes, rooting on the team.

“Hey Uvalde, this is Jeremy Pena from the Houston Astros. Good luck in the playoffs and stay Uvalde strong,” the MLB shortstop said in a video sent to the team.

The team has garnered the backing of the victims’ families.

“In speaking with some of the family members of the little leaguers that we lost, they encouraged us to continue moving forward,” JJ Suarez, Uvalde Little League President, told KTRK.

Related video above: Texas leader says Uvalde police response a "failure"A preliminary report by the Texas House investigative committee probing the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers outlines multiple failures by several entities, including the overall law enforcement response, the Uvalde school system, the shooter's family and social media platforms.CNN has obtained and is reviewing the report, which was made available to the victims' families Sunday morning. The families are expected to meet with the committee Sunday afternoon to discuss the report and its findings, which come more than a month after the committee began investigating the attack and law enforcement's response.The investigative committee's report and the video are expected to be released to the public concurrent with Sunday's meeting with family members. A news conference is scheduled for Sunday afternoon for members of the press to ask the committee questions. A source previously told CNN the report was expected to focus on the facts of the attack, include a chronological sequence of events, a timeline, a law enforcement manifest, and details on the shooter. It was also expected to clarify conflicting accounts of what happened, include verbatim quotes from sworn testimony, and show that the law enforcement failure that day was much greater than one person or one agency, one source has said.Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police chief and officers, the district superintendent, the school's principal, a teacher and custodial staff are among those who testified behind closed doors to the committee -- with roughly 40 people testifying, according to one source.Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows, the committee chairman, said last month the group would do "everything in its power" to provide facts and answers about what happened "leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of this tragedy."Printed copies of the report were hand-delivered to Uvalde and Texas officials Saturday night out of fear the document might leak to the media before family members of the victims were able to read it, according to some of the officials who received the report.The surveillance footage was leaked and published by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper on Tuesday, sparking outrage from both local officials and families who said they were blindsided and disrespected by the unexpected release. The report comes nearly eight weeks after an 18-year-old gunman walked into Robb Elementary and began firing inside a classroom, killing 19 children and two teachers. Key questions about the police response to the shooting remain unanswered since. Principal among them: why authorities waited more than an hour in the school hallway before confronting and killing the gunman, a move that law enforcement experts say may have potentially cost lives.DPS Director Col. Steven McCraw has condemned the law enforcement response to the attack, calling it an "abject failure" in a hearing before a Texas Senate committee last month and placing the blame on the on-scene commander, who state authorities have identified as district police chief Pedro "Pete" Arredondo."The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering rooms 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children," McCraw said at the time.But Arredondo, who was placed on administrative leave by the school district, told the Texas Tribune last month he did not consider himself the incident commander and assumed that another official had taken control of the larger response. "He took on the role of a front-line responder," the paper wrote of the chief.Arredondo testified behind closed doors in Austin to the House investigative committee in June.

UVALDE, Texas — The lawyer for the principal of an elementary school in Texas where 21 people were killed in a mass shooting says she has returned to her job after being placed on administrative leave earlier this week.

On Monday, Robb Elementary School principal Mandy Gutierrez's attorney told CNN that his client was on paid leave.

On Thursday, her attorney told ABC News, CNN, and Reuters that she was reinstated.

A reason for her being placed on paid leave was not given, the news outlets reported.

CNN reported that her reinstatement comes a day after she defended herself against a Texas House committee investigation report of the deadly school shooting.

In the report, the news outlets reported that Gutierrez was criticized for failing to fix a lock on the school door the gunman used to enter the school on May 24.

On Wednesday, she called the accusations "unfair and inaccurate," the Texas Tribune reported.

Gutierrez became principal of the elementary school last year.

HOUSTON — The Houston Astros is set to welcome residents from Uvalde on Sunday for Uvalde Strong Day.

The team announced Monday in a press release that 500 residents from Uvalde, Texas, will be brought to Minute Maid Park in 10 busses for “a unique gameday experience."

The release stated that a pregame ceremony and a ceremonial first pitch would also honor Uvalde.

Astros fans will also get the chance to buy Uvalde Strong t-shirts, which the proceeds going to Uvalde Strong efforts, the team said.

According to the release, the winner of the 50/50 raffle will win $10,000, with the rest going to Uvalde Strong initiatives.

The team said that fans who purchase 50/50 raffles over $100 would receive a Uvalde Strong wristband.

"The Astros are committed to the continued healing of the community of Uvalde through the game of baseball," the team said.

This isn't the first time the Astros had shown support to the community that was devastated when a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers inside Robb Elementary School in May.

The Astros and the Astros foundation visited Uvalde in July to embrace the grief-stricken town, MLB.com reported.

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Uvalde’s embattled district police chief is set to face becoming the first officer to lose his job over the slow and bungled law enforcement response to one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District board will decide Wednesday in a rescheduled meeting from July on Pete Arredondo’s future, three months to the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers while hundreds of police officers waited in the hallway of Robb Elementary and outside the campus.

CNN reported the meeting is slated to start at 5:30 p.m. CT, first allowing comments from the public to be heard before going into a closed session to decide Arredondo's possible termination.

Arredondo, who has been on administrative leave since June, has faced heavy criticism for his handling of the May 24 tragedy.

A nearly 80-page report released in July criticized Arredondo for not taking charge of the scene and wasting "precious time" by looking for a key to a likely unlocked door.

The Department of Justice has been reviewing the law enforcement agency's response to the massacre. According to the report, it took nearly an hour after the shooting began for the gunman to be confronted.

Meanwhile, questions remain as Uvalde students are set to begin a new school year on Sept. 6.

School officials say the Robb Elementary campus will no longer be used, stating that classes for the elementary students will take place in temporary classrooms at various campuses in the town.

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On May 24, 2022, 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

In just one day, an entire community was left devastated.

In the days following the mass shooting, memorials were set up at the school and the town square.

People from near and far traveled to the sites to mourn. Some wrote cards, some lit candles, and others — brought music.

Anthony Medrano, a professional mariachi musician with Mariachi Campanas de America, organized a bus full of musicians from San Antonio, Texas, to play songs for the grieving community.

"Many of us are educators," Medrano, who's been playing mariachi music for close to 40 years, said. "We teach the children that look like the ones that were killed, and speak like the ones that were killed, and whose parents talk like the ones that were killed."

Performing in Uvalde

Medrano said his friend, artist Cruz Ortiz, went to Uvalde shortly after the shooting to process the tragedy. On his way back, Ortiz called Medrano asking if they could play mariachi music – anything to help comfort the heartbroken community.

With the help of a friend, Medrano secured a charter bus fit for 50 people. The bus was filled within hours.

Medrano instantly felt the weight of the devastation once he arrived at the town square's memorial site.

He saw 21 crosses, each etched with the names of the victims. The crosses were piled high with flowers, cards and toys.

"I have a five-year-old goddaughter that I spend a lot of time with," Medrano said. "And the toys that I saw at these memorials of these murdered children were the same toys that she has in her toy box."

Medrano said he broke down in front of a cross.

"I cried, I prayed, and I apologized," Medrano said. "I apologized to that soul for not being the answer to this problem. The problem of someone getting an assault weapon and going into the school and murdering children."

Medrano and the group of mariachi musicians played a few songs to the community, such as "Amore Eterno," which talks about love and loss, and "Las Golondrinas," a traditional song of farewell.

"These songs aren't your everything's gonna be okay songs," Medrano said. "The lyrics to the songs express the true tragedy. I mean, they don't put a bandaid on it, they kind of rip the scab off so you can get that emotion, so you can expose it."

Seven-year-old Mariachi performer Matteo Lopez also sang a song called "México Lindo y Querido," which Medrano said was appropriate because the community in Uvalde predominantly has roots in Mexico.

"This was a time to play the music that our culture and our community can relate to," Medrano said.

In mariachi culture, musicians yell out "gritos," which is a scream or yell during a song. It can be used in celebration but also can express a guttural cry out loud during songs of grief and loss.

"That's the way we process, we have to cry out loud," Medrano said.

At the end of the performance, Medrano said the community thanked the group of musicians and understood why they performed.

"There was very much a healing session right there in front of the memorials," Medrano said.

'The Song of the People': The history of mariachi music

Mariachi music has deep roots in Mexican history. According to the Smithsonian Institute, the music's oldest rhythms date back to Mexico's colonial times (around 1519-1810) when people from Spain and African slaves and their descendants mixed with hundreds of American Indian cultures to create a new Mexican culture that varied depending on the vast region. The music was referred to as "mariachi" around the 1850s. The bands consist of trumpets, violins, a vihuela (five-string guitar), a guitarrón (six-string guitar) and sometimes a harp. Mariachi musicians wear beautiful suits known as los trajes de charros.

In its earliest days, mariachi bands started simple with two violins, a harp and a guitar instrument known as the vihuela. In the beginning, mariachi music was localized and known as "the song of the people," Medrano said. Songs were handed down from generation to generation. The first songs of mariachi music, known as "Sones," imitated life and nature.

For example, a song called "El Relámpago," meaning lightning, has quick and sharp notes that imitate the sound of thunder in a storm. Some of the first songs also imitated animals, such as birds and donkeys. The songs would always be lively and rhythmic, lending itself to dancing.

Mariachi music evolved through the years into more ballads and the music changed depending on the region in Mexico, such as the huapangos style of music. Medrano said musician Rubén Fuentes started refining mariachi music with the band Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán during the era. The music became more orchestral, Medrano said.

"There was a beautiful mix of the music," Medrano said. "The songwriting, the arranging and just the persona of Mexico, like Jorge Negrete, you know, very classic star, Lucha Villa, Lucha Reyes, Lola Beltrán, all this was a beautiful mixture that came together to create what we do today."

It's tradition for mariachi's to perform for every occasion in life – including funerals, as a way to celebrate life and heal those who are grieving.

"You see mariachis perform at festivals and fiestas, and it's all confetti and piñatas and having a good time," Medrano said. "But the other side of that is that we also are there for families and for loved ones, individuals who don't know how to process a tragedy, and we're asked to come and give comfort through music."

Medrano said performing at funerals is a humbling role.

"But we understand as a mariachi culture, that's part of what we do. We make you smile, and we try to hug your heart when you need it."

Helping Heal: What is music therapy?

Just as the mariachi musicians helped provide healing in Uvalde, music has been used as a form of therapy for a long time.

Robert Krout, professor emeritus of music therapy at Southern Methodist University, has been involved with music therapy and grief work for decades.

In a mass casualty event, those impacted are dealing with shock, grief, anger and other raw emotions all at the same time. This can make it overwhelming for people to talk out loud about what happened – which is where music can help express how they're feeling when words cannot.

Krout said music is processed by the entire brain – from cortical levels of being familiar with a song and linking it to a specific past event, to influencing our heartbeat by matching the beat to the song.

In music therapy, there is a neurological process called entrainment, where the brain and other rhythms in the body (such as heartbeat and pulse) match an external stimulus. For example, people exercise while listening to upbeat music, because they will naturally run to the beat of the song.

In music therapy, there is a client (the person being helped), the therapist (a professionally trained clinician), the music, and the music experience.

The music used in therapy can be active: playing a composed piece, improvising while playing, or moving to the music. The music can also be passive: listening and responding to the music.

Music therapists look at the client's needs, why they were referred to the therapist, their musical background and what aspect of music might benefit the client. Ultimately, music is used to help the client realize their own goals.

Krout said his clients, who are experiencing grief, frequently have relationships with certain songs – whether it be special to them or special to their lost loved one.

Playing familiar songs can be a good start to therapy, as the lyrics can be discussed and reflected upon.

Krout also said songwriting is therapeutic – whether having the client write a song to commemorate the loved one who died or having a gravely ill client write a song to express their wishes to their loved one as a keepsake for when they die.

'We don't want this to be repeated'

After the trip to Uvalde, Medrano and his friends wanted to commemorate the victims.

"We didn't want anybody to forget what happened," Medrano said.

So, they made a corrido, which is a written report in song lyrics of what happened.

They named it "El Corrido de Los Angeles de Uvalde." Medrano said the lyrics do not sugarcoat the tragic details of the shooting.

"It talks about the 90 minutes that they were waiting for help, that they were calling 9-1-1," Medrano said. "Nobody rushed in to save them, to save some at least. It talked about the assault weapon. We talked about the hurt, talked about the families fighting to try to get inside to save their own children by they were held back."

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Medrano said he hopes the song will bring awareness and, hopefully, policy change to prevent more tragic mass shootings.

"We don't want anybody to forget this part of the history because we don't want this to be repeated," Medrano said. "And if we can remember it and recall it and report it, even through music, that maybe we can make a change."

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This video is the third of a four-part series by Clarified featured during Hispanic Heritage Month to educate viewers on the contributions, experiences and heroes of the Hispanic community.

UVALDE, Texas —

Slowly, purposefully, they came to see the white crosses.

A substitute teacher on a camping trip. A grandfather taking his afternoon walk. A couple in a pickup truck with their caramel-colored Labrador Retriever in the back. A group of female bikers that rode into town with flowers in hand.

With few words, they stood at the corner of Old Carrizo and Geraldine, gazing somberly at the memorial to the murdered: 19 crosses for the children, two for the teachers at Robb Elementary School. Twenty-one killed in America’s worst school shooting of 2022.

Nearly one year to the day later, the mourners continue to visit a campus where students will never learn again.

“I knew it would be moving,” said Kelly Mitchell, a substitute teacher from San Antonio, who stopped by the school recently while returning home from a camping trip.

"It makes it very real. It's not some faraway thing. It makes it very personal,” Mitchell said.

Bob Estrada, who said a relative died in the shooting, paused at the memorial while walking his grandson. He said he visits the site several times a week. "I just come down here and imagine what happened,” Estrada said. “I always wondered what those kids went through."

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School shootings after Uvalde

Since the shooting at Uvalde, more kids have gone through it, too, because the bullets have not stopped, killing more kids and more teachers at more schools, in Texas and around the nation.

From May 25, 2022 — the day after the Robb Elementary massacre — until April 30, 2023, 25 more schools reported gun violence on campus, according to The Washington Post's school shooting database, killing 13 people and injuring 41.

In all, there have been 105 incidents of gunfire at K-12 schools since the Uvalde school shooting, according to the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.

More than a dozen states have taken action in response in that same time frame.

New gun laws passed after massacre

One month after the Uvalde shooting, in June 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It expanded background checks for gun buyers ages 18 to 21, provided $2 billion for school safety, and will help pass 'red flag' laws to temporarily take guns away from people in crisis.

At least 74 gun control laws have passed in 13 states since the Robb Elementary killings, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, including new bans on assault weapons in California and Washington.

One of the states not on the list: Texas, where a former student used an AR-style rifle to shatter the community of Uvalde.

In the 365 days since the killings, the Republican-controlled state legislature has sent no new laws to the Texas governor restricting the type of firearm that was used to take 21 lives at the school, where Kelly Mitchell, the substitute teacher, recently came to mourn her fellow teachers.

"Every person had to know somebody that was affected by it,” she said.

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Mark Albert is the chief national investigative correspondent for the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit, based in Washington, D.C. Tamika Cody, Reid Bolton and Pingping Yin contributed to this report.

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