Spanish survivor of Florida school shooting heads gun control campaign
Sunday, February 25, 2018 @ 8:33 PM
A SPANISH teenager who survived the Florida school shoot-out says 'if someone had sat down with' the killer 'for five minutes', the lives of all 17 students murdered could have been saved.
Alfonso Calderón, 16 (pictured), originally from Alcobendas a few kilometres to the east of Madrid, is heading up the movement Never Again, which is calling for the Whitehouse to clamp down on weapons possession.
He is spearheading the pressure group along with classmates David Hogg and Emma González from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – a massive student movement that has gone viral around the globe calling for strict gun control in the USA.
The immense power of the USA's National Rifle Association (NRA) and national president Donald Trump's unwillingness to ban firearms possession means the students have a huge battle on their hands – as yet, Trump's response has been, instead of restricting gun sales, to consider arming school teachers.
“We want to start a dialogue, speak to our senators and with people from other political parties,” Calderón explains.
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