Colin Goddard was immersed in a work call when he heard the news: There had been another mass shooting, this time at a community college in Oregon. A survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history, the news hit him in the gut. "The word I use is deflate, that’s the best way to describe the physical sensation that happens," said Goddard, who now works as a policy advocate for Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun violence prevention group. "As much as you think you’ve made progress, you’re organizing, you’re building things, it feels like you’re all the way back to square one." As the nation's attention turns to...
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