Florida school shooting survivors call for tougher gun laws
BY IANS18 Feb 2018 11:01 AM IST
IANS18 Feb 2018 11:14 AM IST
Miami: Survivors of a deadly shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 students and teachers, have called for tougher gun laws in the country and and urged voters to kick out lawmakers who oppose the move, the media reported.
At an emotional rally on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Emma Gonzalez, a senior at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland where the massacre took place on February 14, demanded national lawmakers do something to prevent mass school shootings, reports CNN.
She addressed politicians, saying to those who take campaign donations from the National Rifle Association (NRA): "Shame on you."
Hundreds of people gathered began to chant, "Shame on you! Shame on you!"
As she ended her remarks, she shouted her disagreement with what she hears from the other side of the gun laws debate, CNN reported.
"Politicians who sit in their gilded house and senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have been done to prevent this, we call BS!.
The attack, one of the worst mass shootings in US history, was carried out by a former student of the school, Nikolas Cruz, 19. He killed 17 people -- 14 students, three staff members -- and injured 15 others.
He was expelled from the school for "disciplinary reasons".
Cruz, who has had a history of mental illness, is currently at the main Broward County jail facing 17 counts of premeditated murder.
His next court date is set for Monday.
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