(USA Today) A tearful Emma Gonzalez, whose speech at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla. rally three days after the Valentine’s Day shooting galvanized the student movement, paid tribute to all of her fallen friends who “would never again” do the simplest things in life.
She then stood silently for several minutes before a teary-eyed crowd in the nation’s capital, a painful hush marking the little over six minutes it took for the gunman to snuff out 17 lives.
“Fight for your lives before it is someone else’s job,” Gonzalez implored.
