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Survivors of Florida school shooting call for reform of legislation

 

Survivors of the Florida school shooting are turning their grief into action with a message to lawmakers: Address gun reform now.
Nikolas Cruz opened fire at his former school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, killing 17 people in the deadliest US school shooting since 2012.
The shooting on Wednesday reignited demands for tougher gun laws, with students gathering in Fort Lauderdale, about 25 miles from the site of the shooting in Parkland, to get their message out.
Emma Gonzalez, who survived the shooting, addressed hundreds, calling for a plan to prevent mass shootings.
“Maybe the adults have got used to saying, ‘It is what it is,'” Gonzalez said in a fiery speech. “But if us students have learned anything, it’s that if you don’t study, you will fail. And in this case if you actively do nothing, people continually end up dead.”
“We are going to be the kids you read about in textbooks. Not because we’re going to be another statistic about mass shooting in America, but because, just as David said, we are going to be the last mass shooting,” she added.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has lashed out at the FBI late Saturday, describing its failure to follow up on a tip about Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz as “very sad.”
Trump shifted blame to the FBI, saying it is devoting too much time to investigating his presidential campaign.
“Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter,” the President tweeted a day after he visited hospitalised survivors of the shooting.
“This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign — there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!”

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