Parkland Rising is a documentary about the aftermath of the February 14, 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The shooting claimed the lives of 17 people, and ignited a movement against gun violence.
“The fact that people have access to military weapons is insane. There’s regulations with fighter airplanes, there’s regulations with tanks, there’s regulations with any insane, inhuman killing machine, except for rifles. Rifles that Marines use, people have access to buy at supermarkets,” he explains. reports of vaping-related illness
and death, but not much has been done to combat gun violence despite so many more people being killed by guns in the United States. "This documentary is important, because we have to do everything we can to wake people up,” he says. “Because the people that need to be woken up just so happen to be the people with the power to make the laws."
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