Stoneman Douglas Students March for Gun Control in Tallahassee

Still, the Parkland victims’ protest has mobilized students all over the country who are fearful of yet another fatal school shootings.

Numerous students went straight from the funerals of Carmen Schentrup, 16, and Gina Montalto, 14, two of 17 students and teachers killed on February 14 at the Parkland school.

“America’s high school students are leading a revolution against political complacency and collusion with the NRA”.

“We have not talked about meaningful gun control in 20 years in the state of Florida”, says Moskowitz.

“This is a movement and it starts with us #PrayingforParkland”, wrote a Lake Howell student on Twitter, who also posted a photo of students gathered together outside.

In a separate Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday, 66 percent of people surveyed support stricter gun laws in the United States, including 86 percent of Democrats, 69 percent of independents – but just 34 percent of Republicans.

Minneapolis Public Schools says it is aware of the planned walkouts and respects students’ right to peacefully assemble.

“It should have been one school shooting and we should have fixed it and I’m pissed”. “No kid needs to go to school and worry about whether or not their life is in jeopardy”.

Fellow student Delaney Tarr said she had prom and grades on her mind before the shooting. “After seeing what happend in Florida, it really does affect you”.

In addition to raising the age for buying an assault rifle to 21, the lawmakers have discussed adding a three-day waiting period for the type of semiautomatic rifle used in the school shooting.

“I want to explain to them the role that rights play, and how when we pass a law we must take into account what the unintended consequences of that law could be for their protection and for everyone’s protection”, he said. I want to make sure that my children, my grandchildren, yours, everybody in this state, can wake up and be safe. “But nothing is going to come out of there that we haven’t heard before or that’s going to turn the president around”. “That just shouldn’t be happening”.

They are set to hold a news conference, then continue meeting with officials through the afternoon.

Runners run past the memorial for the victims of last week’s school shooting at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Fla., on February 21, 2018.

And Kirsten Knisely, a student from H-B Woodlawn, said this protest was not the end of the gun fight for her and her peers.

She demanded several times that the lawmakers look her in the eye as they spoke, and they complied. “I went to this school and it never entered my mind that a shooter would come”. There is, however, some momentum to measures to get such rifles treated more like handguns (whose purchase has more restrictions) than long guns.

“We’re hoping these kids will change things”, Serrano said. “I’ll help you with your message”, a woman stopped at a light vowed, shaking her fist.

The Stoneman Douglas students began taking buses over the past couple of days to Tallahassee to take part in Wednesday’s rally and to meet with legislative leaders.

Hinton was relieved to learn that her son was still in his classroom.

“I want to see those people who shot down that bill, who did not let it get past the committee”, Deitsch said. Henry lauded the organization efforts by the students.

The attacks on the students angered French. “Because my daughter, I’m not going to see again”, said Pollack.

Also at the meeting were other students from Washington, D.C., and gun control advocates, including Mark Barden, whose son, Daniel, was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in CT. The students sat quietly in the parking lot for about 17 minutes before returning to class.