Providence Public Safety Commission Steven Pare is the guest this week on Political Roundtable.

Topics include:

The distinctly American problem of mass shootings;

The low death rate from guns in Rhode Island;

Whether Providence police should be moving ahead with a plan to use license plate readers.

One of the state’s top political reporters, Ian Donnis joined The Public’s Radio in 2009. Ian has reported on Rhode Island politics since 1999, arriving in the state just two weeks before the FBI...