Outrage and inaction: how the push for gun control rises and falls with each school shooting

The country experiences a mass shooting nearly every day while federal gun control legislation remains a distant dream

On Tuesday, an 18-year-old shot and killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. It was the second deadliest school shooting in American history, behind the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting when 20 children and six adults were killed.

Mass shootings are so common in America that most of these tragedies barely make a blip in the gun control debate.