FLORIDA SHOOTING: Scores of protesters calling for gun control storm White House

The recent shooting in Florida which saw a19-year-old gunman kill no less than 17 people and wounded a dozen others when he opened fire on his colleagues at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has forced scores of demonstrators to storm White House calling for more gun control measures.

Reports say most of the protesters included dozens of young people and their families who took their demands for stricter gun control laws to the White House with signs that read, “Enough is Enough” and “Change gun laws or change Congress”.

Meanwhile, the 19-year-old Florida shooter Nicolas Crus has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder after the shooting incident at the High School in southeastern Florida.

Read also: FLORIDA: Gunman kills 17 people, wounds 14 others at a local high school

According to local police, Cruz had been expelled for disciplinary problems and decided to take out his anger for the punishment by storming his school with a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle, a gas mask, smoke grenades and “multiple magazines” of ammunition.

The suspect was later overpowered by security operatives and was taken into custody shortly after the shooting incident regarded as one of the deadliest mass shootings in US modern history.

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