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At Governors Meeting, Guns Absent From Agenda

Governing: The mass shooting that left 17 people dead in Parkland, Fla., on Valentine's Day has put gun laws and school safety in the national spotlight. On Monday, governors from around the country are scheduled to meet with President Trump to discuss school safety.

But this weekend, at their winter meeting in Washington, D.C., both gun laws and school safety were noticeably absent from the National Governors Association’s agenda and when its leaders addressed their peers, suggesting that -- despite some Republicans' recent embrace of gun control -- there is still a lack of bipartisan agreement about how to address these issues.

Outside of the meeting and in interviews, however, governors on both sides of the aisle have either backed some of Trump’s proposals or offered their own.

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