Horrified Florida students beg the adults: Please, do something about guns
PARKLAND, Fla. - The kids in South Florida are fed up. With the adults.
After a mass shooting left 17 students and faculty dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Parkland, many area students - instead of withdrawing into the solitude of grief - have thrown themselves into the spotlight in anger and frustration.
They're too young to vote. But in national TV interviews, in viral posts on social media, at protests outside schools, the students have chosen to make a noisy message clear to the politicians who represent them: They want stronger gun control.
"Stop apologizing. Get to work. Pass legislation that actually saves children's lives," Douglas junior David Hogg, 17, said Friday as he stood outside his school by police
