Following the Santa Fe High School Shooting on May 18 , 2018 , activists in favor of gun control drew parallels between it and the earlier Stoneman Douglas High School shooting . Twitter user Fred Guttenberg , whose daughter Jaime was killed in the Stoneman Douglas shooting , cited this incident as part of a pattern , saying " Now , we have 8 more children dead and our leadership in Washington has done nothing . " Reaction among students from Santa Fe has been more mixed , with some students such as Callie Wylie stating that violence is not a " gun problem . " A round table hosted by Governor Greg Abott of Texas , involving students , politicians , and activists , focused less on gun control than on " greater police presence on school campuses and improved strategies to deal with mental health problems . " In greater response to the Stoneman Douglas through an article of CNN that was updated June 13 , 2018 there has been a growth in states to respond in how they will control guns in the future . States such as New York , Florida , Nebraska , New Jersey , Washington , Illinois , Vermont , Oregon , Rhode Island , and Connecticut to expand on gun control measures . These measures range from state to state on banning bump stocks , stricter mental health checks , using the legal age to buy a weapon to 21 , restricting high capacity firearm clips to 15 or 10 rounds , and even the measure of city ordinances banning assault style weapons . On the federal level even there was a move by President Donald Trump in March 2018 in prohibiting the sale of bump stocks
Santa Fe High School Shooting
Santa Fe High School shooting
Public opinion on gun control in the United States