Survivors of the
are taking their gun-control message on the road.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — where a former classmate admitted to killing 17 and injuring 15 more with an assault rifle last week — loaded into a bus Tuesday bound for the state Capitol l in Tallahassee,
.
The teenage activists will take center stage at a rally outside the statehouse noon Wednesday demanding stronger gun-control measures from the state, which is notoriously lax.
Alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz, 19, legally purchased 10 guns in the year leading up to the massacre, despite a deep and unnerving history of violence and other antisocial behavior.
He copped to the killings to police.
The students are also planning a March 24 rally in Washington DC.
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