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Moving on to the next chapter in their already eventful lives, freshmen during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting graduated Tuesday, but without nine of their classmates whose lives were taken too soon.
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Over the past couple of years, I’ve had the privilege of being able to spend some time with Andrew Pollack and Ryan Petty, two of the parents who are part of one of the worst clubs in the country: moms and dads who’ve had their children stolen from them by cowardly criminals and evil individuals intent on taking as many innocent lives as possible. While both of these gentleman have suffered the same loss and dealt with the same grief as other parents, because they don’t embrace the idea that more gun control laws are an effective and constitutional way to deal with the issue of targeted violence, however, they don’t receive nearly as much attention from media outlets as other parents who’ve channeled their grief into anti-gun advocacy.
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“In seconds, the lives of dozens of families, and the life of an American community, were changed forever,” Biden said in a statement released on Sunday.
The President used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons.
US President Joe Biden pauses to speak with reporters as he walks to Marine One for departure from the South Lawn of the White House.
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There was no time to wait, the President said. “We owe it to all those we’ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now.”