Angry and scared, Mass. students join Florida survivors in gun control fight
By Travis Andersen and Alana Levene GLOBE STAFF AND GLOBE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Growing up in an age when mass shootings have become a tragically familiar part of American life, 18-year-old Riley Korhonen said the fear that her school will be next is never far.
“I don’t know how it could not be, seeing all this stuff on the news,” the Massachusetts high school senior said. “We’ve already seen several [mass shootings] this year, more than have happened in other countries in decades.”
Now, Korhonen, a senior at Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, is channeling her fear into political action, organizing a walkout of classes next month to demand stricter gun laws in response to the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., which left 17 people dead.
As grieving survivors of the Florida massacre make searingly personal appeals for an assault weapons ban under the rallying cry “Never Again,” a surge of high school and college students in New England are joining the cause, determined this time will be different.
more
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/21/angry-and-scared-mass-students-join-florida-survivors-gun-control-fight/QOmxniF0dDb8pFGEoMBIgN/story.html
