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Student who survived Florida shooting pleads with Trump and Congress: ‘Please, take action’

By Kristine Phillips February 15 at 2:18 PM

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A student had a message for politicians Thursday, the day after he survived a mass shooting that killed 17 people and injured 15 others at his high school in a South Florida suburb.

“Please, take action. Ideas are great. Ideas are wonderful and they help you get reelected and everything,” David Hogg said on CNN as he looked straight at the camera. “But what's more important is actual action ... that results in saving thousands of children's lives. Please, take action.”

Hogg, a senior, said he was in an AP environmental science class Wednesday afternoon when he heard a gunshot. Then the fire alarm went off. Hogg said he and his classmates went out to the hallway, thinking the school was doing a fire drill. As they were walking, “a flood of people came along,” he said.

“They said, 'Don't come this way, don't come this way. He's coming this way,'" Hogg told The Washington Post's Whitney Shefte.

Student David Hogg who survived school shooting looks directly in camera, sends message to Trump and lawmakers: “Please, take action. Ideas are great… But what’s more important is actual action… saving thousands of children’s lives. Please, take action” http://cnn.it/2Eurnj1

Student David Hogg who survived school shooting looks directly in camera, sends message to Trump and lawmakers: “Please, take action. Ideas are great… But what’s more important is actual action… saving thousands of children’s lives. Please, take action” https://t.co/pwO9MLc69E pic.twitter.com/DRxOxemBZJ

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) February 15, 2018

The Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., northwest of Fort Lauderdale, is the deadliest public school shooting since 20 first-graders and six staff members were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. It's also one of the deadliest mass shootings on record.

Authorities say the gunman, armed with an AR-15 rifle, planned the mass murder. He pulled a fire alarm and waited for students and staffers to crowd the halls. Police say Nikolas Cruz, a former student who had been expelled for disciplinary problems, had a gas mask, smoke grenades and several magazines of ammunition.

Hogg said a culinary teacher kept him and several other students safe inside a classroom. The student journalist then pulled out his camera and interviewed classmates while they were in hiding. A video posted on YouTube by Storyful, which vets user-generated videos and photos, shows students being interviewed inside a dimly lit room.

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