'March for Our Lives' tour brings together Omaha teens, Parkland students to discuss gun violence

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Erin Duffy

Omaha is one of those communities that get mythologized as “the real America,” the heartland that sits smack-dab in the middle of the country.

So a national tour focusing on the effects of gun violence, registering young voters and lobbying for stricter gun control had to make a stop in Nebraska, said Alfonso Calderon, a student from Parkland, Florida.

Calderon helped moderate a panel featuring young people from Omaha, Chicago, St. Louis and Parkland, part of a “March for Our Lives: Road to Change” tour led by Parkland students that stopped in Omaha on Tuesday.

The speakers talked about how gun violence has touched their lives, advocated for gun laws like universal background checks and urged attendees at a crowded hotel ballroom downtown to register to vote and make their voices heard at the polls during the midterm elections this November.

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[Honeycombe8]

1. These kids are just amazing. The new generation is the bomb!

[sandensea]

2. They're incredibly brave as well.

In Trump's America, doing what they do could potentially get one killed - or at least an attempt (as David Hogg recently learned).

[Honeycombe8]

3. True. There are some madhatters out there. I'm so proud of them, and in awe.

Me at that age? I was such a goofball.

[appalachiablue]

4. K & R. Bravo to all these brave, righteous young people speaking out!

Go Omaha!