Do You Have a Federal Office of Gun Violence Prevention?

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Rep. Rust is releasing a piece of legislation that's bicameral introduced in both the Senate and the House with Senator Chris Murphy. It would create a federal office of gun violence prevention to look at root causes, provide data for members of Congress. "It is very hard and depressing to know that these things are continuing to happen," he says.

Five years after March for Our Lives, one of the historic protest’s organizers and his historic friend explain why it’s easy to forget how much progress has been made. Plus, Rep. Frost breaks some news about his first proper piece of legislation.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram and Noel King.

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