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What role did the Sandy Hook shooting play in Maxwell Frostā€™s activism?

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Maxwell Frost was 15 years old when 26 people were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He met the brother of one of the victims and said that the impact of gun violence changed his life. The Parkland high school shooting in 2018 reinforced Frostā€™s commitment to fighting gun violence. He became the national organizing director for March for Our Lives, a youth-led group combating gun violence.