Guns are now the leading cause of death for American children, but Michigan laws won't budge. Today, we talk with the Michigan State Senator whose district includes Oxford Township, where the mass shooting at Oxford High earlier this school year remains a fresh wound. And we hear from a researcher who narrows in on gun deaths -- and ways to possibly mitigate them -- among Michigan children.

GUESTS:

Rosemary Bayer, state senator representing Oxford Township and co-chair of the Michigan Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention Caucus (D-12)

Patrick Carter, co-director of the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention and associate professor of emergency medicine at Michigan Medicine 

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