Parkland students rally in Wisconsin for gun laws as part of Road to Change tour

Buy Photo Students from Parkland, Fla., took their summer Road to Change Tour to the Janesville office of House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday ahead of two other Wisconsin stops. Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Alfonso Calderon said the students dropped off a copy of H.R. 4240, a bill that includes legislation for universal background checks on firearms. The bill was discharged from consideration in February by the Committee on the Judiciary. Calderon criticized Ryan for his lack of action on the measure despite polling showing widespread public support for universal background checks. "Paul, you are a failure as speaker of the House," Calderon said. About 25 students were bused from Milwaukee and Waukesha to attend the event, billed as a meet-and-greet with the Parkland students, whose activism since 19 were killed and another 14 were wounded in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has ignited a call for action on gun violence. Former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, is charged in the shootings. Alfonso Calderon, 16, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HIgh School, castigated House Speaker Paul Ryan for not supporting gun control during a stop in Janesville Friday. For Emayu Edari-Sellassie, a recent graduate of Madison West High School, the message of the March for Our Lives movement is something personal. Edari-Sellassie grew up in Milwaukee, where gun violence was an everyday issue in her neighborhood. "As you see tragedies, you become desensitized to it — you don’t care," Edari-Sellassie said. "And it’s disturbing to […]

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