What Will It Take To End Gun Violence in the United States?

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: What do you think it will take, as I asked, to get out of this state in the United States?

DAVE CULLEN, AUTHOR, “COLUMBINE”: Actually, that’s really interesting, as you were saying that. No, I haven’t given up hope. In fact, I have much more hope, which may be kind of this weird dynamic I’m going through. I spent almost a year, over a year, working on a big piece on Gabby Giffords and really on the movement for “Vanity Fair.” I think we called it something like “How Gabby Giffords Outsmarted the NRA.” But the gist of it, the reason I started to work on that, actually, in the wake of the last sort of like double whammy of El Paso and Dayton, is when I started on that, is because covering this closely, I see the public and the media really has this notion that it’s hopeless, it’s going nowhere, where I have been observing the opposite. It’s been bubbling up, and really the political playing field has completely shifted. The NRA, which was seen as unstoppable force that squelched every politician in its wake, and which did because of that, so – – but anyway. So, after years of that, they’re not dead and buried, but they’re defanged. They are a shadow of what they were just a few years ago. So we’re very, very close. And it really happened after Sandy Hook.