Students Across US Stage Walkouts To Protest Gun Violence

Survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, have emerged as the new faces of the gun-control movement and marched on the state capital of Tallahassee on Wednesday to call for a ban on assault-style weapons.

“After the deadly shooting in Las Vegas, I directed the attorney general to clarify whether certain bump stock devices like the one used in Las Vegas are illegal under current law”, Trump stated, referring to Jeff Sessions. It was a near-death experience. But it was him.

Dana Fisher, a University of Maryland expert on U.S. social protests, notes the student movement comes at a time of heightened political activism following Donald Trump’s election, which reignited a culture of political protest starting with the historic Women’s March the day after his inauguration. He has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.

And so Hernandez showed up at the BB&T Center for CNN’s televised town hall, hoping not only to show solidarity with classmates, but also to hear out two senators, a representative, a sheriff and a spokesperson for the NRA about what might change.

And he called for arming and training select school officials, a proposal that has been met with mixed response. “How can we, as lawmakers charged with the safety and well-being of our state’s citizens, continue to do nothing?”

“We need to be able to defeat any threat that comes into campus”, Israel said.

“I am angry”, said Douglas freshman Haleigh Gross. He will meet with the nation’s governors at the White House next week at which time school safety will be the top priority, said White House spokesman Raj Shah.

Entire communities are damaged, from students who escaped to those attending schools in the area, to parents, friends, neighbors, clergy. Rubio did not say he would. The school also works to ensure there is only one way to get into the building during the school day to keep tabs on who is coming and going.

“No special interest group, no political agenda is more critical than timely passage of legislation to effectively address the gun violence issues that are rampant in our country”, said the group.

Students at numerous protests called for stronger gun control and said they’re taking action to protect schools because Congress hasn’t. I guess that’s what everyone says. “I applaud their initiative”, she told the Gazette.

She added: “We’ve had enough of thoughts and prayers. She totally deflected the question, in my opinion, and never answered it”.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, chairman of the National Governors Association, applauded Trump earlier this week for directing the Justice Department to craft regulations that would ban “bump stocks”, devices that increase the rate of fire of semi-automatics to that of almost fully automatic weapons.

“Our staff just needs a lot of reassurances”, he said.

The 22-year-old man there told the deputy that he tried to calm down 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, who had been punching holes in walls and breaking objects.

Petrina Tuttle Herring, a bureau chief over grants for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, made the request Tuesday in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Students converged on Florida’s Capitol to take their concerns about gun control to state lawmakers Wednesday.

“I feel powerful”, Bernstein said.

“We are ready. If Congress isn’t going to fight for common sense gun remedies, then let us take those spots”, Herrmann said. “It hits close to home because it’s happening to us”.

Chris Grady, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, poses at a memorial outside the school, for Wednesday’s mass shooting, in Parkland, Fla., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. But to help provide an estimate of how many people live in areas hit by such events, CNN examined almost two dozen K-12 school shootings since Columbine in 1999.