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he humming in the background was barely
Theard over the sound of an AR-15 rifle shooting.
Students held hands, trembled and hid for their lives
in classrooms and bathrooms as a former student
stalked the school, shooting with deadly intent.
Some locked and barricaded doors, cowering in
terror while they awaited rescue. For others, that
rescue sadly would never come.
By the day’s end, 17 people were dead from the
Wednesday shooting inside and around Marjory and buy a weapon of war - an AR - how is that easy
Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. 14 to buy this type of weapon?” he asked.
more were seriously injured. The shooter was
Nikolas Cruz, 19, former student of Stoneman High. However this time, the survivors of the Marjory
He had been kicked out of school due to disciplinary Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in
reasons in January 2017. Parkland, Florida have vowed that things are going
to change. They’ve already started a movement to
16 weeks into 2018, there have already been 20 prevent gun violence, with their campaign Never
school shootings where someone was hurt or killed Again MSD. The whole community — and much
in America. That averages out to 1.25 shootings a of the nation — is still mourning the shooting, but
week. America is armed to the teeth. There are by multiple students have banded together to take gun
various estimates anywhere from 270 million to violence prevention into their own hands. Their
310 million guns in the United States - close to one names are Emma Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky, David
firearm for every man, woman and child. Hogg, Alex Wind, Jaclyn Corin, Sofie Whitney, and
Delaney Tarr, among others, and they’re prepared
Anger and despair grew, especially in the hearts for a fight. They’re calling their movement Never
of victims and parents of the victims killed in the Again, and the “MSD” added at the end of their
shooting. Andrew Pollack is the father of Meadow Twitter account refers to the name of their school.
Pollack, one of the 17 killed in the Parkland Shooting.
Pollack said the country has failed its children. Sam On its Facebook “About” section, the group describes
Zeif, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High itself as “run by survivors of the Stoneman Douglas
School spoke of the semi-automatic AR-15 used at shooting. We are sick of the Florida lawmakers
the high school massacre. “I turned 18 the day after. choosing money from the NRA over our safety.
Woke up to the news that my best friend was gone #NeverAgain.” They also posted on the brand new
and I don’t understand why I could still go in a store Never Again MSD Twitter account: “#NeverAgain
will be standing up to the politicians, and marching
for every kid: past, present, and future.”
This tweet also contained an important announcement
about an event that Never Again will be putting on.
Not only are they trying to prevent future shootings
by meeting with legislators and spreading the word
of their fight throughout the media — they’ve also
held what they’ve called the March for Our Lives in
Washington, D.C. on March 24.
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