This week in Kentucky politics…
After one other horrific faculty taking pictures, politicians renewed the now-familiar custom of offering condolences to households, however discouraging advocates from pushing for gun security measures.
By the top of the week, Republican Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell advised CNN that he was encouraging GOP leaders to work with Democrats on a “bipartisan resolution” to gun violence.
However the sample of occasions feels much like 2019, when McConnell hinted at a compromise on a so-called “crimson flag” regulation and expanded background checks within the wake of massacres in Dayton and El Paso, however finally vitality fizzled a number of weeks later.
Kentucky Public Radio’s Ryland Barton and Divya Karthikeyan have this week’s version of Kentucky Politics Distilled.
Kentucky Politics Distilled is our weekly rundown of the massive information — and generally the odd information — occurring within the state Capitol.
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