Barack Obama pushed gun control for Trayvon and those congregants in Thousand Oaks, among others, during a December 13 acceptance speech for the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award. Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in self-defense on February 26, 2012, after attacking a neighborhood watchman, and 12 people were killed in Thousand Oaks Borderline Bar & Grill on November 7, 2018.