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What's On The Table — And What's Not — After The Parkland Shooting

State lawmakers are debating some gun measures, but legislative rules mean some ideas are unlikely to be proposed.
Tony Gonzalez
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WPLN
State lawmakers are debating some gun measures, but legislative rules mean some ideas are unlikely to be proposed.

The Tri-Star State — A Tennessee Politics Podcast — Week of Feb. 25, 2018

The leading topic of discussion nationwide continues to be guns in the wake of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla. And state capitols around the country are feeling pressure to act and help put an end to the wave of massacres.

That’s also the case in Tennessee. Nashville Public Radio's Jason Moon Wilkins and statehouse reporter Chas Sisk discuss what's being debated and what will likely have to wait.

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Chas joined WPLN in 2015 after eight years with The Tennessean, including more than five years as the newspaper's statehouse reporter.Chas has also covered communities, politics and business in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied economics and journalism. Outside of work, he's a dedicated distance runner, having completed a dozen marathons
Jason Moon Wilkins