Sun Sentinel Palm Beach Edition
‘Road to Change’ leads to South Florida
In West Palm, activists speak against gun violence
WEST PALM BEACH – The Road to Change tour stopped in West Palm Beach on Sunday, where the father of a Stoneman Douglas shooting victim recalled the horror of learning his son had died.
“You don’t want to be standing here like me as a father,” Mitchell Dworet said. “I think about my son Nick all day long.”
Dworet, the father of Nicholas Dworet, spoke for what he said was his first time in front of a group.
He recalled how he was waiting to pick his son up for swim practice the day of the shooting and how he didn’t find out until about 3 a.m. the following morning that he had died.
Student activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School spoke out against gun violence and encouraged young people to vote this year.
They also had a personally delivered message for President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago private club and estate on Palm Beach. Trump himself was in New Jersey this weekend.
Photos on social media show the students pinning a $1.18 price tag on the Winter White House’s gates. The tags are a reference to the amount of money politicians have received from the National Rifle Association per student nationally, according to the March For Our Lives website.
Activists have used the price tags to call out politicians who take money from progun rights groups in the wake of the Feb. 14