Thousands of people joined students at a gun control rally Saturday morning, including elected officials but the strongest voice came from the young people, most of them who are not even old enough to vote.
“We’re out here to make sure our voices are heard,” sophomore Genesis Campbell said. “We’re not adults, we can’t vote yet. But we need to speak up, and I hope people will listen.”
Amid funerals for the Parkland Florida school shooting, anger has grown over the easy availability of guns and the students staged a protest Saturday at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, just 25 miles from where 17 people were shot and killed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this week.
‘We will be the last mass shooting,’ said Gonzalez, a senior at the high school who took cover on the floor of the auditorium as a shooter rampaged through the building.
“Every single person up here today — all these people should be at home grieving — but instead we are up here standing together, because if all our government and president can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it is time for victims to be the change we need to see,” student Emma Gonzalez told CBS News.
Maybe this young generation can be the tipping point.
