'Our nation's greatest asset, our children, are the innocent victims of gun manufacturers' greed enabled by their corrupt lobby and our elected whores,' Barry Schapiro wrote.
links to a broader gun discussion that drew renewed attention after the Parkland, Florida, shooting in 2018, which left 17 people dead, and has held a prominent place in national discourse since. Student activists, like Davidand Emma González, launched a fervent campaign to push for greater gun control after surviving the massacre. Youth activists led the March for Our Lives, a mass demonstration held the past two years in Washington, D.C., to advocate for gun violence prevention.
The wave of activism following Parkland catalyzed a range of state gun control measures, with Florida, New Jersey and VermontProminent companies have also begun taking action, a move gun control activists have long agitated for. Dick's Sporting Goods announced less than a month after the Parkland shooting that it would stop selling assault-style weapons and raised the age needed to purchase other firearms to 21. In March, the company said that it would stop selling guns at 125 of its 700 stores across the country. Although sales initially slumped, the company's sales jumped 3.
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