didn t think she was going to make it. 17 people are confirmed dead in a mass shooting at a high school in south florida. i saw two girls dead next to each other holding hands. fear turns to anger as another american community is forced to come to grips with another shooting. i know your best friend was shot right next to you. yeah. do you know how she s doing? yeah. unfortunately, she didn t make it. i just spent the last two hours putting the burial arrangements for my daughter, who s 14. are you okay, honey? i m okay. thank you. we re failing our children. we re not keeping them safe and congress is failing us and the government is failing us. we don t need ideas. we need action. we need actions from our public officials and civic public because without that this is going to happen again. so, let s talk about action.
we re not keeping them safe. i don t want something like this ever to happen again. i want to take action. i don t want this to be another mass shooting. i want this to be the last mass shooting. it starts with the politicians, the nra. we don t need ideas. we need action. president trump, you say what can you do? you can stop the guns from getting into these children s hands. put metal detectors at every entrance to the schools. what can you do? you can do a lot! this is not fair to our families, that our children go to school and have to get killed!
i feel like he needs to take into consideration all this gun control. there s no reason that a kid, 19 years old, that s been investigated already and not even a year ago, being able to purchase an ar-15. the state that this country has been allowed to come to, through the work of politicians saying yeah, we re going to impose these ideas. we don t need ideas. we need action. we need action from our elected officials and from the public. because without that, this is going to happen again. mayor, gillham, what do you have to say to those students? the most salient voices we ve heard in the middle of this tragedy have been from our young people. the student voices have been so strong. they have reminded and, quite frankly, embarrassed a lot of the adults in our state who have done nothing. these students have asked that they want to be kept safe. they want their elected officials to do exactly what we were elected to do, and that s
yeah, thoughts and prayers go out to people. we re going to propose these ideas. we don t need ideas. we need action from our elected officials and we need action from the civic people. without that, this is going to happen again. he is one of the fired up students you re talking about, students than want to effect change. i understand he came up to you and asked you to do something. well, i saw david again this morning. and just a few weeks ago, david interviewed me at douglas high school for their student television station where we had a chance to talk about this issue among others. he s incredible. and at the same time, he is typical of the kind of student that attends douglas and the kind of passion that we ve seen. the funerals are starting today, and we grieve and our heart aches for the famies who lost loved ones. but these kids who survived,
it s tragic. and it s time for our leaders in the state of florida, led by the governor to do something about it. let s listen to two students who were in the high school yesterday and managed to get out alive. i feel like he needs to take into consideration all this gun control. there s no reason that a kid, 19 years old, that s been investigated already and not even a year ago, being able to purchase an ar-15. the state that this country has been allowed to come to, through the work of politicians saying yeah, we re going to impose these ideas. we don t need ideas. we need action. we need action from our elected officials and from the public. because without that, this is going to happen again. mayor, gillham, what do you have to say to those students? the most salient voices we ve heard in the middle of this