In the United States, 327 people are shot every day. On July 13, former President Donald Trump was one of them.

The shooting at Trump's reelection campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a person was killed and two were wounded, is a tragedy and a huge failure on the part of law enforcement. It is something that we should all find despicable, no matter your political alignment.

We now know that the 20-year-old gunman even flew a drone over the rally area two hours before Trump’s speech. The assassination attempt was such a security failure that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned.

The conversation and congressional hearings over the security failure started happening days after the shooting, a part of conversation that was needed.

And yet, I have seen very few elected officials actually talk about gun violence and the need for more legal intervention despite the weapon used at the Trump rally being a favorite among mass shooters. You would think an assassination attempt would force the country to take gun violence seriously. You'd be wrong.

So I decided to talk to David Hogg, 24, who has spent the past six years fighting for better gun laws after surviving one of the country's most notorious mass school shootings.

Hogg, who was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a former student killed 17 people on Valentine’s Day in 2018, is the co-founder of March For Our Lives.

Because of his own experience with shootings and his advocacy work, Hogg noticed quickly how little conversation there was about guns at the Republican National Convention, either for........

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