It became clear that the company's members weren't taking aim at the issue of hunting or sport shooting but wanted to see more
discussion around gun control, he said.
The YouTube shooting has added fuel to the fire surrounding the
debate around gun control in the U.S., one that technology companies have been drawn into.
Their action has mobilized teens across America who believe they can do what lawmakers have not: Change the conversation
around gun control in the United States.
Kathy Durham, a West Wendover High School civics teacher, talks with students about crafting
legislation around gun control during a U.S. Government class for seniors in West Wendover, Nev..
The
galvanizing around gun control in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting appears to have spooked the gun community, Feldman said.
But the real money in federal races came not from maxing out under federal giving limits or hosting fundraisers — as he also did for Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, California Senate candidate Kamala Harris and Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton — but from PAC
spending around gun control.
As the deadly shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school, which killed 17 and injured more than a dozen others, sparks a national
conversation around gun control, the White House is pushing Congress to actually pass gun control measures.
With the NRA and NRA - backed politicians becoming a focal point of the conversation
around gun control, people and companies are standing up to say «enough» as they join in the rapidly growing NRA boycott.
Hard conversations are coming, perhaps legislation,
around gun control, about hatred, racism, religion, about our culture's glorification of violence, our nationalism, and the divisions between us, yes, those conversations need to happen, but not just now: now is the time for grieving, now is the time for loving, for burying, for mourning with those who mourn, for gathering humanity together, and for compassion.
The Kingston Common Council is poised to jump into the divisive debate
around gun control.
The comment was specifically related to Trump's evolving and at times confounding response to the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida last month, which has reignited the debate
around gun control and violent media.