Students scarred by Vegas massacre join Florida rallying cry

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Source: AP

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Kaitlynn Willoughby was frustrated by how quickly gun control debates stalled after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Her friend, 20-year-old Quinton Robbins, was among the 58 people killed Oct. 1 at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. By the holidays, just weeks later, calls for change dissipated.

"No one was listening to us yet," the 18-year-old high school senior said. "After Las Vegas, it was just another shooting."

Willoughby is among those planning to march this weekend in rallies worldwide inspired by high school students in Parkland, Florida, who turned their own mass shooting last month into a rallying cry.

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[Demit]

1. At first I thought the headline meant people literally scarred.

I guess it means affected emotionally, or mentally, but it would be a powerful visual if people who were physically scarred, or have permanent disabilities, would let themselves be photographed so people can see what damage guns do. I understand why they wouldn't, but still.

[IronLionZion]

2. More than 187,000 students have been exposed to gun violence at school since Columbine

This WaPo article is a powerful read with some pics of physically scarred young children who paid the price of freedom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/us-school-shootings-history/?utm_term=.243062be7a85

[Demit]

3. Good article, I'm reading it now.

Thanks for the link. I would've missed it otherwise. Great research, very sobering.

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4. YES THX -this article makes important connections betw gun violence experienced by white AND black

kids - two sides of the same coin, really... its important to not let right wingers get away with claiming that we white liberals don't care about what's happening to black kids.