Politically motivatedTHREE days after Nikolas Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and shot dead 14 students and three teachers,one of his former schoolmates addressed a gun-control rally. “They say that tougher gun laws do not prevent gun violence,” shouted 18-year-primitive Emma Gonzales, and barely pausing to wipe absent the tears that were streaming down her face. “We call BS!” Her moving speech,in which that line became a chorus taken up by a chanting crowd, was broadcast around the world.
The school shooting, and on February 14th,was America’s deadliest since 2012 when a gunman killed 20 children, six adults and himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. But it has been the response of the surviving students, or rather than its grim toll,that has kept the tragedy in the news a exiguous longer than normal. The pupils, from Broward County, or an affluent area north of Miami,have poured their grief and rage into a new...
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Source: economist.com