Contents Series Foreword vii Chapter 1 Overview of School Shootings and the Never Again Movement 1 Chapter 2 Landmark Events 13 The University of Texas Tower Shooting (1966) 13 The Gun Control Act (1968) 17 The NRA Cincinnati Revolt (1977) 21 The Firearms Owners’ Protection Act (1986) 25 The Brady Bill and Assault Weapons Ban (1993–1994) 29 The Columbine High School Shooting (1999) 32 The Virginia Tech Shooting (2007) 38 District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) 41 The Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting (2012) 45 The Umpqua Community College Shooting (2015) 50 The Las Vegas Shooting (2017) 52 The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting (2018) 57 The Never Again Movement Forms (2018) 61 The March for Our Lives (2018) 66 The Santa Fe High School Shooting (2018) 73 Chapter 3 Impacts of the Never Again Movement 77 The March for Our Lives Demands 77 School Safety and Proposals to Arm Teachers 91 A New Age of Youth Activism 96 A Shift in Public Sentiments about Gun Control 102
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