Sunday, February 18, 2018

Not One More: Remembering the Victims of Mass Shootings

"We are going to change the law."

Ellie Branson, a teenager, at the Not One More rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Saturday.

They shouted into a microphone until their voices became hoarse.  They waved handmade signs.  They chanted, Julie Turkewitz, Matt Stevens and Jason M. Bailey report on nytimes.com

And sometimes, in the middle of it all, they choked up, they wrote.

At the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, students -- including many of the very people who had to endure the trauma of a shooting on campus -- continued to speak out about guns, they added.

Since Wednesday, when a gunman killed 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., they youthful voices have resonated where those of longtime politicians have largely fallen flat.


Photo: nytimes.com.
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Ruff Takes: Behind the Scenes at Westminster.

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