Orlando's Pulse nightclub. The Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. A Sebring bank. A yoga studio in Tallahassee. A naval air base in Pensacola.

At least 81 people have been killed in mass shootings scattered throughout Florida since 2016, and the death toll keeps rising from other gun violence that, in some pockets of the state, has become almost the norm.

As state lawmakers prepare for Tuesday's start of the 60-day legislative session, Republicans are split on how, or even if, to address one of the nation's most divisive political and policy issues: guns.