Carl Hiaasen: Going to school shouldn't turn into a death sentence

MIAMI -- I know a high-school senior who hadn't heard the awful news from Parkland before he got home Wednesday. He stared at the television and said, "What?"

And, moments later, shaking his head: "What the hell?"

This young man doesn't know anyone who goes to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, though it's not far away. His own father had grown up in Broward County, and so had his father's father.

All afternoon the death count went