Feb 21, 20184:45 PM
Activists and students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School advocate for gun control a rally at the Florida capitol Wednesday.
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Survivors from last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sparked a day of activism across the country Wednesday when they took to the Florida state capitol to demand stronger gun control.
About 100 students from the Parkland, Florida, who had to travel more than 400 miles to the state capitol, had driven up in three buses with chaperones and reporters the day before. They arrived Tuesday night, where they spent the night at Tallahassee’s civic center. Some of them had come directly from funerals for some of their classmates.
According to the Sun Sentinel, Sylvia Serrano and Enakai Mpire, two survivors of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, came onto the bus to support the students before they left. Once they arrived at the capitol, students met with lawmakers, sometimes publicly and sometimes behind closed doors.