Students who survived the Florida school shooting are calling for gun control.
17 people were killed on Wednesday when 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland armed with an AR-15 rifle.
The teenager killed 15 people inside the school, two outside, and injured 14 more.
Following the incident, Cruz was detained and charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
He had confessed to the shooting.
Those who survived the shooting are now calling for gun control measures to be put into place in the United States.
School senior David Hogg told the New York Times that he wasn’t surprised by the shooting, but that the violence had to stop.
He said:
“The fact that a student is not surprised that there was another mass shooting, but this time it was at his school says so much about the current state that our country is in, and how much has to be done.
“We need to do something. We need to get out there and be politically active. Congress needs to get over their political bias with each other and work toward saving children’s lives.”
Following the shooting, the student also spoke to CNN about the incident, sending a direct message to president Donald Trump.
“Thank God for a janitor that stopped us” student David Hogg says
He says she helped the students shelter in a classroom.
“She saved my life, and she saved easily 40 others there." https://t.co/dgj99UZ415 pic.twitter.com/edHHkDKBhR
— CNN (@CNN) February 15, 2018
The 17-year-old turned to the camera and said: “Please, take action. Ideas are great, but what’s more important is actual action, saving thousands of children’s lives.”
“We’re children,” he said. “You guys are the adults.”
This comes after president Donald Trump issued a statement on the shooting saying:
“My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school.”
He also said that he was “working with Congress on many fronts.”
This is the deadliest US shooting of 2018.
