Gun control rally in Tallahassee; Parkland students meet with lawmakers
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Protestors rally outside the Capitol
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Protestors rally outside the Capitol
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Protestors rally outside the Capitol
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Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith leads students as they chant
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People crowd the entrance to the office of Gov. Rick Scott
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Protestors rally outside the Capitol
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Students protest gun violence in Tallahassee
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Isabella Pfeiffer listens to leaders of the Florida Senate
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Students chant protest slogans
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An activist holds up a placard
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Student survivors listen as Lorenzo Prado speaks
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Activist holds up a placard
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Student survivor, Kevin Trejos, speaks
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Supporters hold up balloons spelling out the word “change”
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Student survivors lie down inside the state capitol
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Student survivors walk through the state Capitol
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Students protest gun violence in Tallahassee
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Students look on above the Florida Senate
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An activist holds up a placard
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Aria Siccone cries as she recounts her story
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Rep. Kristin Jacobs talks with student survivors
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Student survivors walk through the state Capitol
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Sen. Bobby Powell talks with survivors
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Tyra Hemans holds a photo of her friend Joaquin Oliver
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Survivors arrive at the Florida Capitol
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Sen. Lauren Book wipes her eyes
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Representatives vote not to hear assault rifle ban bill
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Gov. Rick Scott holds a statewide roundtable
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Student survivors march to the state Capitol
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Florence Yared waits to speak with state legislators
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Tyra Hemans speaks with Rep. Wengay “Newt” Newton
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Tanzil Philip, 16, a student survivor, speaks
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Students arrive in Tallahassee
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Demitri Hoth writes an open letter to legislators
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On the bus
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Hugs as student board buses
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Students cheer before boarding a bus
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Cameron Kasky and Jaclyn Corin speak
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A student speaks to the media
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Waiting to board a bus to Tallahassee
Student activists from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff were shot and killed will call for a ban on assault-style weapons when they meet with lawmakers and hold a rally on Wednesday in Tallahassee, the state capital.
Last week’s massacre, the second deadliest shooting at a public school in U.S. history, has inflamed a national debate about gun rights and prompted young people from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and across the United States to demand stricter firearms controls.
“We’re here to make sure this never happens again,” Diego Pfeiffer, a senior at Douglas, told a rally that included hundreds of students from a Tallahassee high school on Tuesday after arriving at the capital.
Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student expelled from Douglas for disciplinary problems, is charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Authorities say he was armed with a semiautomatic AR-15 assault-style rifle he legally purchased from a licensed gun dealer last year, when he was 18.
The Republican-controlled Florida House of Representatives has rebuffed a bid to bring up a bill to block sales of assault-style rifles in the state.
Florida’s legislature has taken up at least two measures during its current session intended to provide broader access to guns. (Reuters)
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