US pupils demand tighter gun control

Pupil activists from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff were shot and killed were to call for a ban on assault-style weapons on Wednesday. They were scheduled to meet with legislators and hold a rally in Tallahassee, the state capital. Last week’s massacre, the second-deadliest shooting at a public school in US history, has inflamed a national debate about gun rights and prompted young people from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and across the US to demand stricter firearms controls.