'People are angry': Pain turns political in Parkland after school shootings [View all]
Source: The Washington Post
By Kevin Sullivan, Tim Craig and William Wan February 17 at 11:43 AM
PARKLAND, Fla. — On a day when Parkland began burying its young dead, a dozen people stood on a street corner holding up “More Gun Control” signs as passing drivers honked and shouted in support.
“Look what we started,” said Carlos Rodriguez, 50, who was on his way to work when he stopped to join the protest. “Look at all these people. One match started a whole forest fire.”
This most peaceful and orderly of places has been devastated by the most violent and chaotic of acts. And amid the horse trails, bike paths and gated communities of a city that prides itself on “country elegance,” the response to a shooting Wednesday that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has been a raw, growing and furious burst of activism and demand for change.
“We’re not a politically charged community — this is new, because we’ve had enough,” said Grace Solomon, a city commissioner who is organizing a large group of parents and students to travel to Tallahassee, the state capital, and then to the District to demand “common-sense gun legislation.”
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