Sentences with phrase «reforms after the mass shooting»

President Obama supported comprehensive gun reforms after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, but the effort ultimately failed in Congress.

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As America has suffered through mass shooting after mass shooting, it often seems there is an unbridgeable chasm between activists calling for reforms and gun rights purists who have worked to redefine the meaning of the Second Amendment through the courts and exercise outsize influence on legislatures.

As thousands of students rallied outside the Florida Capitol, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students took their call for gun control reform inside Wednesday, just one week after they lost 14 friends and three mentors in a mass shooting.