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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Parkland attack fueled shift in America’s gun politics
Younger people
take up cause
By LISA MARIE PANE
Associated Press
Last year’s shooting at a Florida high
school sparked a movement among a
younger generation angered by gun violence
and set the stage for a signifi cant shift in
America’s gun politics.
Thousands of student protesters took
to the streets and inspired hashtags such as
#NeverAgain and #Enough. They also mobi-
lized to register a new generation of voters.
Candidates were emboldened too. Many
of them confronted the issue in the midterm
elections and were rewarded with victory
over incumbents supported by the National
Rifl e Association. That helped Democrats
take back control of the U.S. House.
As the one-year anniversary of the shoot-
ing approaches, the legacy of the massacre
remains an ever-present force in the nation’s
politics and gun laws.
“What we’ve seen here is a tectonic shift
in our politics on the guns issue,” said Peter
Ambler, executive director of Giffords, the
gun violence prevention group founded
by former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of
Arizona, a shooting victim. These people
“didn’t get elected despite their advocacy
for safer gun laws. They got elected because
of their advocacy for safer gun laws. They
made that a core part of their message to the
American people.”
The political landscape began to change
just days after a former student shot and
killed 17 students and adults at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in Park-
land, Florida.
At the state level, a surge of gun-control
measures were enacted, including increas-
ing the minimum age for purchasing a fi re-
arm and requiring waiting periods. The num-
ber of states with so-called “red fl ag” laws
— which allow temporary confi scation of
weapons from people deemed a safety risk
— doubled.
At the federal level, for the fi rst time in
modern history, gun-control groups outspent
the powerful NRA on the 2018 midterm
elections. The new Democratic majority in
the House last week held its fi rst hearing on
gun control in a decade.
Even under GOP-control of both cham-
bers during President Donald Trump’s fi rst
two years in offi ce, some of the gun indus-
try’s top priorities — easing restrictions on
fi rearm suppressors and making it easier to
carry concealed fi rearms over state borders
— stalled.
Still, with one of the most gun-friendly
presidents in the White House, the U.S.
Supreme Court now has a majority of jus-
tices who are viewed as ardent supporters of
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., appeared at a rally last year in
support of gun control.
‘THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE ENERGY, THE
ENTHUSIASM, THE MOBILIZATION OF THESE
STUDENTS WAS VERY INFLUENTIAL. IT DID AFFECT
A LOT OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY.’
Adam Winkler | a professor and gun rights expert
the Second Amendment, a shift that is likely
to have a lasting effect on gun rights.
The most prominent shift occurred in
Florida, a state that has long welcomed guns
and has a strong NRA presence. Lawmakers
raised the gun-purchasing age and imposed a
three-day waiting period.
The Parkland attack came just a few
months after two other gun tragedies: the
deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. his-
tory that killed 59 people at an outdoor con-
cert in Las Vegas and the slayings of 26
churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
In the wake of those massacres, the NRA’s
infl uence waned. Trump directed the Justice
Department to ban bump stocks, the device
used by the Las Vegas gunman that allowed
his rifl es to mimic fully automatic weaponry.
The NRA also faced boycotts from cor-
porate America, with some fi nancial fi rms
refusing to do business with gunmakers and
some retailers pulling fi rearms and ammuni-
tion off shelves. A federal investigation into
Russian meddling in the 2016 election wid-
ened to include suspicions that agents sought
to court NRA offi cials and funnel money
through the group.
The NRA has cast itself as being in fi nan-
cial distress because of deep-pocketed liberal
opposition to guns and what it calls “toxic
lies” in news reports. Last summer, the orga-
nization raised its annual dues for the second
time in two years.
Parkland “defi nitely marked a turning
point,” said Adam Winkler, a professor at
the University of California Los Angeles
School of Law and gun rights expert. “There
is no doubt that the energy, the enthusiasm,
the mobilization of these students was very
infl uential. It did affect a lot of people across
the country.”
But, he said, the NRA “remains a power-
house,” and it’s too early to suggest that gun
groups’ troubles are insurmountable.
“No one ever made a lot of money betting
against the NRA,” he said.
NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker ques-
tioned whether the infl uence of gun-rights
advocates has waned, noting that Florida
elected a governor backed by the NRA and
a majority of the organization’s legislative
candidates won last year.
Despite the Democratic gains in Wash-
ington, proposals for gun restrictions still
face long odds. Any action taken by the
House will fail to gain traction in the Sen-
ate or be signed into law by the president,
she said.
“They exploit these high-profi le tragedies
to sensationalize. They exploit them to play
on people’s emotions instead of doing their
jobs to address the underlying issues that are
really causing these” shootings, Baker said.
Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun
Owners of America, said the industry is
accustomed to people believing the latest
shooting will bring the gun industry to its
knees.
“They said that in 2013 after the Sandy
Hook shooting, and they absolutely said that
again last year,” Pratt said. With the excep-
tion of Florida, the blue states got bluer and
the red states got redder and expanded gun
rights, he said.
Polls show that gun control is not a top
priority for Americans, he said.
“I don’t think the needle has moved at
all,” Pratt said.
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