In the two weeks since the slaughter of 17 students and adults in
Parkland, Fla., not much has changed in the way the country regulates
guns. Anyone who could buy an assault rifle on Feb. 13 still can today.
And yet, even with Republicans in control of Congress and the White
House, the ground seems to be shifting in the direction of gun safety
advocates who have been stymied for years. Whether this shift will last
and what its long-term impact will be remain unknown. But the movement
that began among the teenage survivors of the shooting at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School, and hopes to bring as many as a
half-million marchers to Washington next month, has become the latest in
a long tradition of movements for social change that have transformed
the politics of issues that were once seen as set in stone, from slavery
to the casual acceptance of sexual harassment.
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