A Minnesota Senate working group met Monday morning to discuss a variety of proposed solutions to deter gun violence following a Minneapolis mass shooting last month.

The hearing is the first public meeting about policy changes since the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School that left two dead and many injured last month. It could set the table for an anticipated special legislative session addressing violence prevention.

Family members whose children survived in the shooting and doctors who treated them spoke to the working group and implored them to act to restrict access to firearms, some breaking down in tears as they spoke.

“There’s one thing that kept more kids from dying on August 27 and it wasn’t a law or a policy. It was church pews,” Carla Maldonado told the grou

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