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Florida Survivors, Lawmakers on Collision Course over Guns

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
JOSH REPLOGLE
TAMARA LUSH
Associated Press
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) —
Students who survived the
Florida school shooting
began a journey Tuesday
to the state Capitol to
urge lawmakers to prevent
another massacre, but
within hours the gun-friendly
Legislature had effectively
halted any possibility of
banning assault rifles like
the one used in the attack.
The legislative action
further energized the
teens as they prepared
to confront legislators
who have quashed gun-
control efforts for decades
in a state where 1.3 million
people have concealed
carry permits.
Three buses set out for
Tallahassee carrying
100 students who, in the
aftermath of the attack
that killed 17 people, want
to revive the gun-control
movement. The teens Organizers Cameron Kasky, left, and Jackie Corin, student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School address fellow
carried sleeping bags and students before boarding buses in Parkland, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, to rally outside the state capitol. The students plan to hold a
rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package
pillows and hugged their of gun-control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider.
parents as they departed, (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
many wearing burgundy
T-shirts in school colors. bus ride checking their and reading comments shooting, some of which liberal pawns.
They spent the seven-hour phones, watching videos on social media about the accused them of being Continued on Page 3