Parkland students target midterms with summer gun control road trip

Source: The Guardian

Student survivors of the Parkland school shooting were announcing on Monday plans to take their March for Our Lives movement on a summer road trip of the United States.

The 60-day, 20-state bus tour will take in stops to meet victims and survivors of other school shootings, including Sante Fe, Texas, where 10 people were killed by a student gunman last month.

The Parkland students’ trip, effectively a “drive for our lives” intended to build on the momentum gained by the March for Our Lives movement and nationwide rallies held in the aftermath of the February shooting that claimed 17 lives at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, will make 75 stops.

It will begin on Friday 15 June at a peace march in Chicago led by students from St Sabina Academy, several of whom teamed up with Parkland survivors in south Florida in March to discuss the drive for gun law refor

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