Here we are again. Another mass shooting in a school this time in Florida. Children are dead.

Politicians send their thoughts and prayers. Gun restriction advocates call for new laws.

The NRA lobbies hard against them. Nothing changes. Rinse and repeat. It's all so predictable and so

depressing.

On the big show this week, we'll be looking at the one new factor,

how the survivors of this shooting, high school children themselves,

are taking on legislators and the gun lobby and demanding action.

But for this podcast, we will reply a couple of interviews we recorded in the wake of other

mass shooting tragedies.

The first is with Adam Winkler, UCLA law professor and author of Gunfight, The Battle of the

Right to Bear Arms in America, who we spoke to after Sandy Hook in 2012.

He told us that there was a time when the NRA supported gun control, back when the Black Panthers were the ones passionately advocating gun rights.

The Panthers determined that the government was either unwilling or unable to protect the

lives of black people, so they started publicly packing heat.

Here's one of the movement's leaders, Huey Newton,

from a documentary called The Black Panthers,

Vanguard of the Revolution, by filmmaker Stanley Nelson.

The California Penal Code Section 120 through 12027,

and also the Second Amendment of the Constitution

guarantees the citizen a right to bear arms on public property. Adam Winkler. One of the surprising

things I discovered in writing gunfight was that when the Black Panthers started carrying their

guns around in Oakland, California in the late 1960s, it inspired a new wave of gun control laws.

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