By STEVE KARNOWSKI

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As Minnesota mourned a mass shooting at a church that left two schoolchildren dead and 21 people injured, Gov. Tim Walz promised to call a special session for the Legislature to pass solutions to gun violence and school safety.

But a month after the Aug. 27 shootings, which happened during the first Mass of the academic year at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, talks seem to have stalled.

Despite impassioned pleas from kids’ doctors, parents of victims and from Pope Leo XIV, chances appear remote that lawmakers could agree on enough to justify a special session.

The hard political reality

The Democratic governor is up against a hard political reality : the Minnesota Legislature is too evenly divided to pass anything wi

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