7 Gun Violence
Gun Violence 7 Tom Price distribute n June, four months after 17 of their classmates and teachers were killed by a formeror student armed with a semi-automatic rifle, students and recent graduates of Marjory Stoneman Douglas IHigh School in Parkland, Fla., took to the road. Their first stops on a nationwide, summerlong bus tour: Chicago and its suburbs, where they recounted the horrors of Feb. 14 to large crowds and urged young people to support candidates forpost, office who back tougher gun laws. “This issue affects every community, and we’re all fighting for our lives,” said Ryan Deitsch, a Parkland student. “We’ll make our voices heard, register young people to vote, get them to the polls and change America’s gun policies so that these senseless tragedies stop.”1 The students’ activism — coupled with public revulsion at a Toya Sarno Jordan/Stringer/Getty Images Toya copy, series of mass shootings over the last year — has spurred many Gabriella Danilo, 18, from New Jersey, poses at the businesses and government officials to adopt gun restrictions that March for Our Rights rally on July 7, 2018, in Washington, D.C., one of several marches held seemed unlikely in the recent past. Indeed, gun control advocates across the country that day to defend Second are hoping the Parkland shooting marks an inflection point in their Amendment rights. Thenot demonstrations were longtime fight to change Americans’ relationship with firearms. organized in response to dozens of student-led “There’s something qualitatively different about what hap- March for Our Lives rallies held since a former pened [in Parkland] and about the response of the youth in student killed 17 students and staff members at MarjoryDo Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Parkland,” says Michael Siegel, a professor in the Community Fla., on Feb.
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