The author stresses the fact that more strict gun laws should be implemented. These gun-restrictive laws include banning bump stocks (which makes a semi-automatic weapon almost automatic) and passing a law that increases the age to own a gun. Politicians don’t seem to agree. Therefore, not much has changed. The most recent shooting in Stoneman Douglas has brought attention to the issue of gun control. The nation wants to see gun control action, not just words. However government cannot agree as to what the right solution is.

• “But it has been the response of the surviving students, rather than its grim toll, that has kept the tragedy in the news a little longer than usual. The pupils, from Broward County, an affluent area north of Miami, have poured their grief and rage into a new campaign for gun control.”
• “The president has ordered the Department of Justice to propose regulations to ban bump-stocks, which can help convert semi-automatic firearms into automatic ones, and which were used by a gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas in October. Congress talked about banning them then, but did nothing.”

The author addresses two viewpoints, one from the students’ perspective and the other from the politicians.

The students demand stronger gun control. They are utilizing social media and holding rallies/marches to express their opinion. They feel like the previous school massacres were ignored and they are determined to make this the last one. They believe the current laws are too lenient and allow for mentally unstable individuals access to guns.

• “The survivors of the latest school shooting have also grown up using social media, which has helped them channel their rage into a potent hashtag movement, #NeverAgain”
• “They say that tougher gun laws do not prevent gun violence,” shouted Emma Gonzales, “We call bs!”

The author lists the different massacres since 1999 showing how the gun violence issue remains unresolved. The author uses problem/solution to structure this article even though it hasn’t been solved. The author uses different mass shootings like Columbine, Sandy Hook Elementary, Las Vegas Massacre, and Stoneman Douglas High School to show that this problem has been going on for decades, yet hasn’t been addressed.

• “The pupils, in their late teens, started their education after a massacre in Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, in which 13 were killed.”
• “The school shooting, on February 14^th was America’s deadliest since 2012 when a gunman killed 20 children, 6 adults and himself in Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.”
• “The president has ordered the Department of Justice to propose regulations to ban bump stocks, which can help convert semi-automatic fire arms into automatic ones, and which were used by a gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas in October.”
• “Three days after Nikolas Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and shot dead 14 students and three teachers, one of his former schoolmates addressed a gun-control rally.”
• “Congress talked about banning bump-stocks, but did nothing. In any case, a bump-stock ban would have made no difference in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting which was carried out with a semi-automatic AR 15 rifle .”