Highlights: Students Call for Action Across Nation; Florida Lawmakers Fail to Take Up Assault Rifle Bill
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Highlights: Students Call for Action Across Nation; Florida Lawmakers Fail to Take Up Assault Rifle Bill
Before marching south toward Stoneman Douglas High, dozens of students from West Boca Raton High School first gathered in the courtyard of their school for a peaceful protest — 17 minutes of silence for the 17 victims —
but then someone opened a door and walked out, and others followed, a videotape of the scene aired by WPTV showed.
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Driven by rage and grief over one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history, students from across the country were taking action in hopes
of pushing their lawmakers to rethink their positions on gun control, even as the Florida State House rejected a move on Tuesday to consider a bill that would ban assault rifles.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed last
week, traveled on Tuesday to Tallahassee, the state capital, to call for an assault weapons ban.
“The shooting in Parkland demands extraordinary action,” Mr. McGhee said Tuesday on the House floor, as
a group of Stoneman Douglas High students, who had previously arrived, peered down from the gallery.
Just hours after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at their high school in
Parkland, Fla., students turned to social media to advocate for more gun control.
• The actor George Clooney and his wife, Amal, said Tuesday
that they would donate $500,000 to a nationwide protest against gun violence planned for next month by the Stoneman Douglas High students.
Before marching south toward Stoneman Douglas High, dozens of students from West Boca Raton High School first gathered in the courtyard of their school for a peaceful protest — 17 minutes of silence for the 17 victims —
but then someone opened a door and walked out, and others followed, a videotape of the scene aired by WPTV showed.
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Driven by rage and grief over one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history, students from across the country were taking action in hopes
of pushing their lawmakers to rethink their positions on gun control, even as the Florida State House rejected a move on Tuesday to consider a bill that would ban assault rifles.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed last
week, traveled on Tuesday to Tallahassee, the state capital, to call for an assault weapons ban.
“The shooting in Parkland demands extraordinary action,” Mr. McGhee said Tuesday on the House floor, as
a group of Stoneman Douglas High students, who had previously arrived, peered down from the gallery.
Just hours after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at their high school in
Parkland, Fla., students turned to social media to advocate for more gun control.
• The actor George Clooney and his wife, Amal, said Tuesday
that they would donate $500,000 to a nationwide protest against gun violence planned for next month by the Stoneman Douglas High students.