Frost, D-Orlando, started his political career as a gun reform advocate, becoming the national organizing director of the group March for Our Lives. Frost campaigned as a survivor of gun violence, having fled for his life along with dozens of other people after someone started firing during a Halloween celebration in downtown Orlando in 2016.

National gun violence prevention organizations also cried out against the website's demise. Brady, formerly known as Brady United and the the nation’s oldest gun violence preven