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Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald on this week's Georgia school shooting, the landmark conviction she won against another school shooter’s parents, and the similarities in the two cases.

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald has thought a lot about how communities can do a better job of preventing gun violence. We talked to her about prevention in the wake of a shooting at a splash pad in Rochester Hills on Saturday.

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday that the shooter was 42-year-old Michael William Nash of Shelby Township.

Multiple people were wounded Saturday in a shooting at a splash pad in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, authorities said.The Oakland County Sheriff's Office said Saturday evening that nine people were wounded, including two children.Police say a suspect in the shooting died by suicide at a home.

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A long-awaited report from an independent investigation into the Oxford High School shooting nearly two years ago found that the school district staff failed to enact measures that could have prevented the deadly massacre.

Democrats in Lansing are hoping to pass several gun safety laws. But the thing about laws is that they have to be enforced to work.

What measures can Michigan State University take to protect its community when there is an active shooter?

On the podcast, we try to piece together the law that allowed for someone with a prior gun-conviction to legally own another gun. We also hear from a public health researcher about why stronger policies alone aren’t enough.

Today on the podcast we talk about what we know so far about the mass shooting at Michigan State University. We also hear from two students about what happened.