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He used his position to champion gun control, civil and constitutional rights, financing for the arts and humanities and American withdrawal from the Vietnam War.

But Gross suggested that the group's support for Clinton would not waver because she "didn't wait until the campaign to champion gun violence prevention".

The community is less than an hour away from the president's luxury golf club, where he spent the weekend and reportedly polled members on whether he ought to champion gun control measures in the wake of the massacre.

The community is less than an hour away from the president's luxury golf club, where he spent the weekend and reportedly polled members on whether he ought to champion gun control measures in the wake of the massacre.

A Washington Post analysis of voting results shows a similar trend in communities that recently experienced large mass shootings: a modest swing toward Democratic candidates, who often champion gun-control laws, with Parkland's three-point shift at the median.

In an increasingly Democratic state, Mr. Lautenberg has sought to depict Mr. Forrester as a conservative who opposes abortion and champions gun rights.

Obama is a Democrat whose party has long championed gun restrictions, a Chicagoan who came of age in a city ravaged by shootings and the first president from an urban area in the modern era of gun violence.

If the Sandy Hook massacre was marked by parents who responded to the horror of losing young children by championing gun restrictions on their behalf, the Parkland students have sparked a roaring teenage indictment of gun advocates and politicians at the center of immovable policies to keep guns in the reach of mass killers.

Given the enduring influence of the gun lobby in Washington and in state legislatures, championing gun restrictions is politically risky, a reliable way for an incumbent to find themselves facing a well-financed challenger.

This year, a number of state legislators introduced and championed gun safety legislation, again in the wake of gun deaths, caused by a previously "law-abiding" citizen at Aurora's Century movie theater.

Senator Schumer talked about his career championing gun safety laws and then said, "We are going to bring the universal background check bill to the floor of the Senate early next year".