Students at a memorial in Parkland on ThursdayImage copyrightEPA
Students re-live Wednesday's shooting in Florida - and demand tougher gun laws from their government.
Where would you expect a school shooting to happen?
Where would you expect 17 people to be shot in the head, in the heart, in the arms and legs, while waiting for home-time?
Not here, surely.
Not among the palm trees and picket fences. Not among the golf courses, the gated communities, the fortnightly farmers' market.
Lanny James, 77, spends the winter in Margate, 5 miles (8km) from Parkland. He bought his place four years ago, but has been coming to Florida since 1976.
He was playing golf when he heard the news. Four dead when he finished his round; 17 dead when he got home.
"I just love South Florida," he says. "But this is supposed to be paradise. These things aren't supposed to happen."
But they did happen: here, where the sky is blue, the grass is green and it's legal for 18-year-olds to buy semi-automatic rifles.
Students re-live Wednesday's shooting in Florida - and demand tougher gun laws from their government.
Where would you expect a school shooting to happen?
Where would you expect 17 people to be shot in the head, in the heart, in the arms and legs, while waiting for home-time?
Not here, surely.
Not among the palm trees and picket fences. Not among the golf courses, the gated communities, the fortnightly farmers' market.
Lanny James, 77, spends the winter in Margate, 5 miles (8km) from Parkland. He bought his place four years ago, but has been coming to Florida since 1976.
He was playing golf when he heard the news. Four dead when he finished his round; 17 dead when he got home.
"I just love South Florida," he says. "But this is supposed to be paradise. These things aren't supposed to happen."
But they did happen: here, where the sky is blue, the grass is green and it's legal for 18-year-olds to buy semi-automatic rifles.
