Florida School Shooting Survivor Writes Poem To Trump, Another Demands Gun Control

On Feb. 14, the United States was rocked by yet another mass shooting, an act of gun violence that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The Washington Post, in a report, through a narrow definition of what would constitute a "public mass shooting," estimated 1,077 people have been killed to date in such incidents in the country.

Almost immediately, the incident sparked outcries of protest across the country — with celebrities, news anchors, former presidents, and Olympic athletes utilizing their power platforms to call for the immediate reform of current gun control legislation.

However, perhaps the most affecting words came from the students and teachers, who survived these horrific acts of firearm brutality through the years.

A student at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who survived the shooting, wrote a poem to express her concerns about mass shootings and gun control. Aly Sheehy posted the poem on Twitter Sunday addressing the president. It received mixed reactions from social media users.

"My friends have died, and our tears aren’t dried,

Yet you sit there, blaming the mentally ill.

My friends have died, and our tears aren’t dried,

Yet you sit there, watching us plead," the poem reads in part.

On Saturday, similar strong words came from Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Speaking at a gun control rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, her impactful speech called "BS" on Trump, lawmakers, and the NRA, garnered attention almost immediately and also went viral on social media.

"Every single person up here today, all these people should be home grieving. But instead we are up here standing together, because if all our government and President can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it's time for victims to be the change that we need to see. Since the time of the Founding Fathers, and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy. The guns have changed, but our laws have not," Gonzalez said in her speech.

"If the President wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, I'm going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association," she added.

Gonzalez also assured that the students, who survived the shooting, will bring in a change in society.

"We are going to be the kids you read about in textbooks. Not because we're going to be another statistic about mass shooting in America, but because, just as David said, we are going to be the last mass shooting. Just like Tinker v. Des Moines, we are going to change the law. That's going to be Marjory Stoneman Douglas in that textbook, and it's going to be due to the tireless effort of the school board, the faculty members, the family members, and most of all the students," she said in her speech.

Survivors were even more angered by Trump's tweet Saturday, reacting to the mass shooting and blaming it on the FBI's carelessness indicating they focused more on the Russia investigation rather than on stopping the shooting from taking place.

The White House later stated in a schedule Sunday that Trump will meet with students and teachers Wednesday, the Boston Globe reported. However, they did not mention which students would attend the session.