Guns
'This feels different': Why advocates have real hope for gun reform after Buffalo, Uvalde shootings
New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware and California have passed gun reforms since back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas.
Amanda Lee MyersUSA TODAY
The cycle of gun violence in the United States can feel familiar:A mass shooting occurs, followed by calls for tougher gun laws. Little if anything changes and inevitably, there's another mass shooting. Rinse, repeat.
But this time, gun reform advocates say, just might be the start of something different.
This time the U.S. experienced two particularly horrifying mass shootings just 10 days apart, the racially motivated attack that killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, and the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.
In the wake of those tragedies, five states have passed a slew of gun reforms and Congress also passed its biggest gun safety package in three decades in a bipartisan vote.