WASHINGTON — Manuel Oliver remembers when a school shooting could spark a national conversation about gun control. His son, Joaquin, was one of 17 people killed in 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, an act of violence that briefly transformed the policy debate over access to firearms.
It’s why he’s so disappointed in the reaction — or lack of reaction — in Washington following last week’s mass shooting at a Michigan high school that left four dead.
“The problem is that we are getting used to these kinds of situations,” Oliver said. “And I remember during the Trump administration, everyone from the Democratic Party would jump and complain about gun violence when something like last week happened.”
