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16th February 2018
04:27pm GMT
Those who survived the shooting are now calling for gun control measures to be put into place in the United States.
School senior David Hogg told the New York Times that he wasn't surprised by the shooting, but that the violence had to stop.
He said:
"The fact that a student is not surprised that there was another mass shooting, but this time it was at his school says so much about the current state that our country is in, and how much has to be done.
“We need to do something. We need to get out there and be politically active. Congress needs to get over their political bias with each other and work toward saving children’s lives.”
Following the shooting, the student also spoke to CNN about the incident, sending a direct message to president Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/964138128939339776The 17-year-old turned to the camera and said: "Please, take action. Ideas are great, but what’s more important is actual action, saving thousands of children’s lives."
“We’re children,” he said. “You guys are the adults.”
This comes after president Donald Trump issued a statement on the shooting saying:
"My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school."
He also said that he was "working with Congress on many fronts."
This is the deadliest US shooting of 2018.
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