Whereas gun violence remains the leading cause of death for children and adolescents in the United States, according to the latest mortality data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Whereas there have been at least 2,069 school shooting incidents in the United States since 1970, causing 684 fatalities and 1,937 injuries, according to the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security; Whereas more than 349,000 students in the United States have experienced gun violence at school in the time since the Columbine shooting occurred in 1999; Whereas, on April 16, 2007, 33 people were shot and killed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia; Whereas the United States has experienced hundreds of public mass shootings in churches, schools, concerts, and movie theaters, including— (1) on August 5, 2012, when 6 people were shot and killed at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin; (2) on December 14, 2012, when 27 individuals, including 20 children, were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut; (3) on June 17, 2015, when 9 Black Americans were shot and killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina; (4) on December 2, 2015, when 14 people were shot and killed at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California; (5) on June 12, 2016, when 49 individuals, 90 percent of whom were Hispanic, were shot and killed at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in what is considered the deadliest attack on LGBTQ+ people in United States history; (6) on September 16, 2013, when 12 people were shot and killed at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command inside Washington Navy Yard in Southeast Washington, DC; (7) on October 1, 2017, when 58 people were shot and killed and 546 others were injured in Las Vegas, Nevada, in what is known to be the deadliest mass shooting in United States history committed by a single individual