Wednesday Morning Briefing: Florida rallies for ban on assault-style weapons
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February 21, 2018
Reuters News Now
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“We’re here to make sure this never happens again,”Diego Pfeiffer, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, told a crowd that included hundreds of students from a Tallahassee high school. Student and parent activists from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff members were slain last week in a shooting rampage will hold a rally today at the state capital, calling for a ban on assault-style rifles.
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