On Monday's edition of The Chad Hasty Show, Washington Times columnist and political analyst Matt Mackowiak joined the broadcast to talk about current events and news in the nation and the state of Texas.

Mackowiak and Hasty discussed the continued calls for gun control measures in the wake of the school murders in Parkland Florida. About the din over that issue, Mackowiak said,

There's a reason the Democrats did not take sweeping gun control votes when they had control of Congress in 2009.

Listen to the entire interview with Matt Mackowiak in the video above.

Matt Mackowiak is a political analyst, a columnist for the Washington Times, and is the co-founder of the bipartisan political news blog Must Read Texas. Don't miss Mackowiak's Washington Times podcast, "Mack on Politics".

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