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Florida survivors, lawmakers on collision course over guns
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Demonstrators participate in a "lie-in" during a protest in favor of gun control reform in front of the White House Monday in Washington. - photo by Associated Press
PARKLAND, Fla. — Students who survived the Florida school shooting began a journey Tuesday to the state Capitol to urge lawmakers to prevent another massacre, but within hours the gun-friendly Legislature had effectively halted any possibility of banning assault rifles like the one used in the attack.The legislative action further energized the teens as they prepared to confront legislators who have quashed gun-control efforts for decades in a state where 1.3 million people have concealed carry permits."They're voting to have shootings continually happen. These people who voted down the bill haven't experienced what we did. I want to say to them, 'It could be you,'" 16-year-old Noah Kaufman said as he made the 400-mile trip to Tallahassee.Three buses carried 100 students who, in the aftermath of the attack that killed 17 people, want to revive the gun-control movement.
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