Q&A: Brady Campaign leader on the new face of gun control

Kris Brown has never seen the energy and support behind gun control reach this level.

Students are staging walkouts. Businesses are limiting gun sales. And politicians are voicing support for legislation that would have seemed unimaginable a month ago.

Brown, co-president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said that in the weeks since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the gun control advocacy organization has swelled with support. Since the Feb. 14 shooting, she said, 18 new chapters have emerged nationwide, joining the more than 100 that already existed. The Brady Campaign is helping