Highlights: Students Call for Action Across Nation; Florida Lawmakers Fail to Take Up Assault Rifle Bill<br />Before marching south toward Stoneman Douglas High, dozens of students from West Boca Raton High School first gathered in the courtyard of their school for a peaceful protest — 17 minutes of silence for the 17 victims —<br />but then someone opened a door and walked out, and others followed, a videotape of the scene aired by WPTV showed.<br />CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Driven by rage and grief over one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history, students from across the country were taking action in hopes<br />of pushing their lawmakers to rethink their positions on gun control, even as the Florida State House rejected a move on Tuesday to consider a bill that would ban assault rifles.<br />Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed last<br />week, traveled on Tuesday to Tallahassee, the state capital, to call for an assault weapons ban.<br />“The shooting in Parkland demands extraordinary action,” Mr. McGhee said Tuesday on the House floor, as<br />a group of Stoneman Douglas High students, who had previously arrived, peered down from the gallery.<br />Just hours after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at their high school in<br />Parkland, Fla., students turned to social media to advocate for more gun control.<br />• The actor George Clooney and his wife, Amal, said Tuesday<br />that they would donate $500,000 to a nationwide protest against gun violence planned for next month by the Stoneman Douglas High students.
