The day after an ex-student walked on to their campus with an AR-15 and murdered 17 people, a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas high schoolers got together to plan a march against gun violence. Less than six weeks later, the idea has swelled in size and scope: as many 500,000 protesters are expected to turn out in Washington, D.C. this Saturday at a demonstration that touts performances from, among others, Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and Lin-Manuel Miranda . Along the way, the students have raised over $3.3 million dollars and inspired more than a hundred “sibling” marches taking place around the world the same day. The dizzying speed with which the student-led #NeverAgain movement materialized caught the NRA flat-footed. In the weeks the massacre, executive vice president Wayne Lapierre – legendarily adept at navigating the lobby through the uncomfortable periods directly following mass shootings – delivered a rambling, paranoid address at CPAC; spokeswoman Dana Loesch was … [Read more...] about Gun Control: Why the Response to Parkland Was Different