As mass shootings plague US, survivors mourn lack of change

We could have done something about this in the years since Columbine, since Sandy Hook," said Marcus Weaver, who was wounded in the theater shooting and whose friend was killed. "When is enough enough?"
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, disagreed that stricter gun laws are the solution.
"I think there's other root causes in play," he said. "I think mental health is a huge issue. One of the motivators is really that ISIS continues to exist, Islamic terror in other forms continues to exist."
Many mass shooters have been found to have severe psychological problems, including the Colorado theater shooter and the man who tried to assassinate Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in 2011.
For Phillips, the story is the same, each time.
"We have made it so easy in this country, for anyone — any one," she said. "It doesn't matter who that person is or what their agenda is."
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.