Shooting survivors arent here to play nice
BY MATT PEARCE
LOS ANGELES TIMES
... "Honestly, just using brutal honesty – that's it," said student David Hogg, one of the movement’s most prominent voices. "I know people are saying it’s intense. I would argue the opposite. We’re fighting for these kids that died because they can’t fight anymore. We’re really trying to get justice for them."
“Everybody deals with grief in a different way. For me, it's anger, and wanting to prevent whatever caused it from happening again,” Hogg said ...
“Sen. Rubio, it’s hard to look at you and not look down a barrel of an AR-15 and not look at Nikolas Cruz,” student activist Cameron Kasky told Rubio at CNN’s Wednesday night town hall with students, parents and lawmakers. The remark drew scorn from the right ...
... in Parkland, "it's as if all of them agreed immediately that stronger gun laws would prevent anyone else from going through this tragedy again," Watts said. "These teens are realizing they don't have to live this way, they don't have to die this way."
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/02/24/parkland-shooting-survivors-arent-here-to-play-nice/
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I can well imagine that would tend to focus the mind - and after what they've experienced, taking on lawmakers can't be all that intimidating. They have a mission and deserve all the support we can give them. 
