I am back this morning with the Stoneman Douglas students who will be lobbying Florida legislators for changes to gun laws.pic.twitter.com/vbkhMxWwPt
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However, the students are not satisfied with this. They don't seem convinced that this would have stopped the shooting at their school.
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The final meeting for the students from Stoneman Douglas today was with Gov. Rick Scott. It was a two-hour sit-down in which the press was not allowed.
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Afterward one student, Piero Guerra, 15, said that the governor had been "kind of neutral" on their proposal to ban semi-automatic rifles, but had been "adamant" in his support for mental health reforms.
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The meeting with the governor ended after dark, and afterward, Mr. Guerra and his classmates exited the capitol, where the three buses that had shuttled them to Tallahassee the day before were waiting to take them some eight hours home to Parkland.
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And on the sidewalk, Lindsey Salomone, 15, said that after a day speaking with lawmakers — she sat next to the governor during their meeting — she was ready to go home and do the real work: grieve.
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"I was in the building, my friends were shot in my class. So emotionally I'm pretty much in shock, I'm not feeling anything, actually," she said. "But everybody is telling me: It will come."
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