Viewfinder: Stoneman Douglas Students Discuss Gun Violence at the U.S. Capitol

By Pacific Standard Staff , May 24, 2018

Charlie Mirsky (left), and Alfonso Calderon, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, take part in a Gun Violence Prevention Forum at the House Visitor Center at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 23rd, 2018.

(Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

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