2/22/2018

''STUDENTS PLAN WASHINGTON MARCH PROTEST''

Demonstrators chant during a “lie-in” demonstration supporting gun
control reform near the White House on February 19, 2018.

STUDENTS plan protests, Washington March - to demand gun control after mass shooting.

The World Students Society : Sam Daily Times : ''The Voice of the Voiceless''  assure the students of America total support.

PARKLAND :

Stunned by the deadliest high school shooting in US history, students mobilized across the country on Sunday to organize rallies and a national walkout in support-

Stronger gun laws, challenging politicians they say have totally and over and over again to protect them.

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a former student is accused of  murdering 17 people on Wednesday using an assault style rifle, joined others on social media to plan the events, including a Washington March.

''I felt like it was our time to take a stand,'' said Lane Murdock, 15 of Connecticut. ''We're the ones in these schools, we're the ones who are having shooters come into our classrooms and our spaces.''

Murdock, who lives 20 miles [32 km]  Sandy Hook Elementary School where 20 children and six adults were shot to death five years ago, drew more than  50,000  signatures on an  Online petition on Sunday calling on students to walk out of their schools.

Instead of going to classes, she urged her fellow students  to stage protests  on the  19th anniversary of an earlier mass shooting at  Columbine High School in Colorado.

Students from the Florida high school are planning a ''March for Our Lives'' in Washington on March 24 to call attention to school safety and ask  lawmakers  to enact  gun control.

They also plan to rally for gun control, mental health issues and school safety on Wednesday in Tallahassee, the state capital.

The students were expected to meet with a law maker who is seeking to ban the sale of  assault-style weapons. like the AR-15 allegedly used in the school shooting.

The demands for change by many still too young to vote has  inflamed the country's  long-simmering debate  between advocates and gun control and gun ownership.

Students from the Florida school have lashed out at political leaders, including Republican President Donald Trump for inaction on the issue.

Many criticized Trump for insensitivity after he said in a weekend  Twitter post that the  FBI  may have been too distracted with the Russian probe to follow leads that could have prevented the massacre.

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