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'Vote them out!': Thousands of young Americans register to vote, vow to remove US lawmakers who oppose gun control laws
•Voter registration activists fanned out among young Americans who marched for tighter gun laws on Saturday, signing up thousands of first-time voters who vowed to eject lawmakers who oppose gun controls.
Maryland school shootout: Gunman killed, identified as 17-year-old student Austin Rollins
•St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron said the assailant, identified as Austin Rollins, died of a gunshot wound after a school security officer "engaged" with him at Great Mills High School in southern Maryland.
Donald Trump says he is ready to 'take on NRA,' urges US lawmakers not to be afraid of association
•President Donald Trump declared he's willing to take on the National Rifle Association over gun legislation, but Republicans who control Congress aren't so sure
Donald Trump says he'd have run into Parkland school, 'even if he didn't have a weapon', week after shootout killed 17
•Donald Trump, who's been highly critical of the law enforcement response to the Florida school shootings, says he would have rushed in, unarmed, if he'd been there.
Florida shooting: Nearly two weeks after 17 lost their lives, students make emotional return to school
•Students and teachers returned to a Florida school in the US for the first time since 17 people were killed there, consoling each other even as they called for swift action to address gun violence
Florida school shooting: Governor Rick Scott backs law to raise minimum age for buying guns to 21
•Florida Governor Rick Scott, a loyal ally of the US gun lobby under mounting pressure to act in the aftermath of last week’s deadly mass shooting, urged state lawmakers on Friday to tighten access to firearms for young people and the mentally disturbed.
Parkland shooting: Armed sheriff's deputy on duty at Florida school never went inside to confront gunman
•Local Sheriff Scott Israel said on Thursday that the armed officer on duty at the Florida school in US where a shooter killed 17 people stayed outside instead of confronting the gunman
Donald Trump wants to arm teachers: Debate over shootings divides legislators, schools and public
•Donald Trump said that if one of the victims, a football coach, had been armed "he would have shot and that would have been the end of it."
Parkland school shooting: Donald Trump meets survivors, floats idea of arming teachers as deterrent
•President Donald Trump floated the idea of arming teachers and promised more stringent background checks on gun owners.
'No idea we had a monster under our roof': Couple who took in Florida gunman Nikolas Cruz
•The couple who took in Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz after his mother's death have described him as quirky but pleasant and seemingly on the right track, saying they had no idea they had a "monster living under our roof."