Florida high school shooting survivors plan to march on Washington DC to demand gun control in the wake of the massacre
Survivors of the Florida school shooting are planning to march on Washington on March 24 in the March For Our Lives to demand tighter gun control
‘Please stop allowing us to be gunned down in our hallways,’ Emma Gonzalez, a high school senior, demanded
Plans emerged days after thousands rallied calling for new gun laws at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School spoke out angrily at the rally demanding change
Speakers criticized lawmakers for taking donations from NRA and demanded changes to nation’s gun laws
Comes as a response to the shooting that killed 17 students and teachers at the school on Wednesday
‘They say us kids don’t know what we’re talking about, that we’re too young to understand how the government works – we call BS!’, Emma Gonzalez said
By HANNAH PARRY and KEITH GRIFFITH
DAILYMAIL.COM
19 February 2018
Survivors of the Florida school shooting are planning to march on Washington DC to demand tighter gun control.
Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, where Nikolas Cruz, 19, opened fire on Wednesday killing 17 and leaving 15 injured, are demanding an end to gun violence and school mass shootings.
‘Please stop allowing us to be gunned down in our hallways,’ Emma Gonzalez, a high school senior, told Fox News. She insisted yesterday that this would be final school shooting in US history.
‘We will be the last mass shooting,’ said Gonzalez, a senior at the high school who took cover on the floor of the auditorium as a shooter rampaged through the building.
They are organizing a protest in Washington on March 24 called March For Our Lives to call for action by politicians.
‘People keep asking us, what about the Stoneman Douglas shooting is going to be different, because this has happened before and change hasn’t come?’ Cameron Kasky, an 11th-grader, told ABC’s ‘This Week.’ ‘This is it.’
‘At the end of the day, this isn’t a red and blue thing. This isn’t Democrats or Republicans. This is about everybody and how we are begging for our lives,’ he added on Face The Nation. ‘We need to make real change here and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.’
‘This cannot be [our] normal. This can be changed and it will be changed. And anybody who tells you that it can’t, is buying into the facade of this being created by the people who have our blood on their hands,’ he said.
The teens also plan to create a ‘Badge of Shame’ for politicians who continue to accept money from the NRA.
‘At this point, any politician on either side who is taking money from the NRA is responsible for events like this,’ Kasky said. ‘The NRA is fostering and promoting this gun culture in which people like Nikolas Cruz can gun down 17 innocent lives in our school.’
The protesters highlighted politicians such as Republican Florida Senator Rubio who has accepted $3,303,355 in campaign spending by the NRA, according to the LA Times. He claimed in the wake of the tragedy that gun control would not have stopped the shooting.
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