This toxic political environment is taking place in a country with high levels of gun violence and easy access to firearms.

"I was completely and totally boxed out from the very beginning," Surprise Republican Sen. Janae Shamp said in an interview with The Arizona Republic.

"I was completely and totally boxed out from the very beginning," Surprise Republican Sen. Janae Shamp said in an interview ...

"I was completely and totally boxed out from the very beginning," Surprise Republican Sen. Janae Shamp said in an interview ...

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The DFL senator was shot nine times in his home last month by a gunman who later killed former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, who was shot nine times by a gunman posing as a police officer who ...