Washington – Dozens of teenage students spread their bodies on the pavement in front of the White House to demand presidential action on gun control and symbolize the 17 killed in a school shooting in Florida.
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The teenagers were also joined by parents and educators. The protesters held their arms crossed at their chests. Two activists were covered by an American flag. One held a sign asking, “Am I Next?”
Ella Fesler is a 16-year-old high school student in Alexandria, Virginia. She says, “It’s really important to express our anger and the importance of finally trying to make a change and having gun control in America.”
Fesler adds, “Every day when I say ‘bye’ to my parents, I do acknowledge the fact that I could never see my parents again.” President Donald Trump is at his Florida golf club, some 40 miles from the site of the school shooting.
When will America understand the problem.It starts with “ONE NATION UNDER G-D” most of the USA has forgotten this. We are focused on violence in this country, video games that promote and glorify killing. Movies that glorify super heroes killing “THE BLACK PANTHER” a blockbuster hailed as showing blacks that they too can be super heroes at killing, a chidish? Self respect, modesty, decency all out the window in todays society And by the way texting by teens & young adults kills more people in auto accidents annually than school shootings combined & causes millions of dollars in damage to property & life, I DON’T SEE ANYONE PROTESTING THAT. Is what happened in Parkland a tragedy? 1000% Should it have taken place NEVER, however until we realize what the REAL problem is & fix it Marches advocating stricter control on weapons is only treating the symptoms & not the disease. New York & Chicago have the strictest weapons laws in the country & still have the more muddlers, robberies & assaults involving firearms per capita than other parts of the USA that permit concealed carry. Please explain why in the 40’s, 50’s 60’s & even the 70″s these acts of senseless violence did not occur.