Although school shootings have been out of the news due to the pandemic, America’s problem of gun violence has not gone away. Georgia Congresswoman Lucy McBath is an unlikely politician. Her son Jordan was murdered at 17 years old over a dispute about loud music. As the Background Checks Act makes its way through Congress, Emily talks with Congresswoman McBath about her work on gun violence prevention and the COVID relief support the Congresswoman championed for parents and pregnant women in the American Rescue Plan that passed the House yesterday.

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