Lawmaker tension boiled over on Capitol Hill this week as it became clearer that Congress would not pass legislation in the wake of another fatal school shooting.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy at a news conference Thursday showed no signs that Republicans would bring forward tougher firearm measures in response to the shooter at a private school in Nashville who killed three 9-year-old children and three adults on Monday.
“I don’t think one piece of legislation solves this. I think a nation together, working together, solves a problem that’s much bigger than us,” McCarthy said.
