From the article:
“It might be tempting to say that the students are living their 15 minutes of fame. But their prominence could well be more enduring.
For example, it wouldn’t be surprising to see one or both run for office in the future. In doing so, they would be following in the footsteps of Carolyn McCarthy, who became a gun control advocate and won a congressional seat after her husband was killed in the 1993 Long Island Railroad shooting.”
Carolyn McCarthy (Dummy, New York), “who became a gun control advocate and won a congressional seat after her husband was killed in the 1993 Long Island Railroad shooting.”
I’ll add: After her husband was killed by a black Jamaican racist whose intention was to kill white people....white people who were not able to defend themselves because of New York’s draconian gun control laws.