Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School aren't the only ones mobilizing for change after the mass shooting that left 17 students and faculty dead on the school grounds.
A group of about 50 Parkland and Coral Springs parents met in front of the Marriott Heron Bay Golf Resort Monday morning. This was where they also gathered on Feb. 14 to wait for news of their children.
Now this community’s parents are headed to Tallahassee to echo the students who asked state lawmakers for more gun control.
Congressman Ted Deutch met the bus of parents to answer questions and wave them off to the state capital.
Shelbie Seys is the Parkland mom who organized this trip. She has three kids in the Parkland school system.
“It’s going to be a long time before I don’t have to worry about my children’s safety in these schools,” said Seys. “This is important, to go there and make changes now, because no kid should go to school in fear.”
Ranee Schafer is a close family friend of one of the victims. She says she's looking to do something in the aftermath of the shooting to prevent this from happening again.
“At this point, we as a country need to come together and focus on our children and our children’s safety,” Schafer said. “Everybody has different views at this point and everybody has a different idea of what the solution is, but we have to put all of our agendas aside.”
The group is set to meet and dine with lawmakers in Tallahassee, where they will also hold a "light the night" vigil in remembrance of the victims killed at the Stoneman Douglas High mass shooting
I just saw a group of #Parkland parents off to Tallahassee. "It's time for the kids to get back to class and let the parents deal with the legislature," one dad told me. @RepTedDeutch met the bus to wave them on their way north. @WLRN
— Caitie Switalski (@caitielee0917) February 26, 2018
