PARKLAND, Fla. – After virtually an 60 minutes of the the Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, President Donald Trump tweeted.

"My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting," Trump wrote. "No kid, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school."

Sarah Chadwick was still trying to figure out who had died and who was injured at her school when she read the tweet and responded in anger.

"I don't want your condolences, you [expletive] piece of [expletive], my friends and teachers were shot. Multiple of my young man classmates are dead," she wrote. "Do something instead of sending prayers. Prayers won't fix this. But gun control will prevent it from happening once again."

The survivor was the get-go pupil from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to publicly challenge a politician to accept activeness on gun legislation. Her brazen tweet went viral and is now seen on T-shirts and signs during events organized by activists from the Never Once more motion.

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott visited Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhouse the night of the shooting. He held a news conference with Broward Sheriff Scott Israel and Broward Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie. In the eyes of some parents, these leaders had failed them. Scott had a loftier rating from the National Rifle Association, a nonprofit that advocates for gun rights.

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A 24-hour interval after the shooting, some of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Loftier Schoolhouse students who survived the shooting talked to reporters who descended to Parkland in droves. Kelsey Friend, a freshman, said that she heard the shot that killed geography teacher Scott Beigel, after he unlocked his classroom to save her life.

"If his family is watching this, delight know that your son or your brother was an amazing person and I am alive today, because of him," Kelsey said in tears. "Thanks."

Senior David Hogg, whose mom, Rebecca Boldrick, is a Broward County Public Schools instructor, and dad, Kevin Hogg, is a erstwhile FBI amanuensis, said he was in class when he told his teacher the "pop" sounds they were hearing were gunshots. They were trying to leave the building when a janitor stopped them from heading in the management of the shooter. A culinary arts teacher pulled him inside a classroom and he hid in a closet. He and his fiddling sister, who is a freshman at the school, survived the shooting.

"Students are dying trying to get an education. That's not OK! That'due south not acceptable! Nosotros are children," David said. "You lot guys are the adults."

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Trump spoke at the White House about the school shooting for virtually 7 minutes without mentioning gun control. His argument came a few weeks afterward McClatchy reported that the FBI was investigating if a superlative Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin had illegally funneled money to the NRA to aid Trump get elected.

"Our unabridged nation, with 1 heavy heart, is praying for the victims and their families," Trump said from the diplomatic room.

Shortly after, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Mike Thompson called on congress to create a committee on gun violence, let the Centers for Affliction Control and Prevention to written report gun violence and pass expanded groundwork check legislation.

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A female parent'southward message to Trump went viral shortly later. Lori Alhadeff was at the Pine Trails Park memorial afterward learning that her 14-year-old girl, Alyssa Alhadeff, was dead. She decided to talk to reporters.

"How exercise nosotros allow a gunman to come into our children's school? How practice they go through security? What security is at that place? There is no metal detectors. The gunman, a crazy person, just walks correct into the school, knocks downwardly the window of my child's door and starts shooting. Shooting her and killing her," she said. "President Trump, you lot say 'What tin can you lot practise?' You can stop the guns from getting into these children's hands, put metal detectors at every entrance to the schools. What can y'all do? Y'all can practise a lot. This is non fair to our families. That our children go to schoolhouse, and accept to get killed. I merely spent the terminal two hours putting the burial arrangements for my daughter'southward funeral."

A bounding main of candles filled  Pino Trails Park during a candle vigil attended by thousands. Fred Guttenberg, a distraught begetter, stood in front of the crowd to talk about his girl, Jennifer, who was also among the 17 killed during the Valentine's 24-hour interval massacre.

"I don't ever go to say I dear you," said Guttenberg, who was mourning the death of his xiv-year-former girl, Jennifer Blossom Guttenberg.  "I don't call up if I said that to Jaime yesterday morning."

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Students attended the funeral of xiv-yr-old Alyssa Alhadeff at the Garden of Aaron at Star of David Memorial Gardens.

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Students attended the funeral of 18-year-one-time Meadow Pollack at the Jewish congregation of Kol Tikvah.
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Students continued to visit the memorial at  Pine Trails Park to pray and leave messages and gifts at the 17 crosses set up for the victims and the cross fix up for the gunman.

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Feb. 17

Emma Gonzalez, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas Loftier School student, read a 10-minute voice communication during a gun-control rally in forepart of the federal court building in Fort Lauderdale.  The 18-year-onetime senior led the crowd in chants of "No more BS!"

February. eighteen

Students attended the funeral of Scott Beigel, a geography teacher from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who was killed while helping students detect refuge in his classroom. The service was at Temple Beth-El in Boca Raton.

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Feb. 19

The funeral service for Alaina Little was held at the Church building of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Coral Springs. The JROTC member

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While funerals continued and memorials were growing both at the school and at a nearby park, Tyra Heman, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, stood in front ot the school property upwards a sign with the hash tag "Gun Reform At present."

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Feb. 20

On the day of 15-year-old JROTC fellow member Peter Wang's funeral, hundreds of students from West Boca High School walked nearly x miles to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in honor of the 17 victims. 2 teenage girls carried a sign. It said, "Protect Kids, Not Guns."

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Feb. 21

On the twenty-four hours of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School athletic director Chris Hixon'due south funeral, students traveled to Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., to protest for the National Burglarize Association'due south influence on legislators and demand a ban on assault weapons.

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Trump held a listening session in the Land Dining Room at the White House. Andrew Pollack, the begetter of Meadow Pollack, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas who was killed in the shooting, had an opportunity to talk next to his two sons. Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior Samuel Zeif begged Trump to "never let this happen again."

""How do we not end this after Columbine and Sandy Hook?"

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas students travel to Tallahassee to speak at the Florida State Capitol and to demand gun control legislation.

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CNN hosts town hall in Sunrise allowing students, parents and teachers to confront Sen. Marco Rubio and an NRA spokesperson.

February. 22

Students attended the funeral of Marjory Stoneman Douglas' banana football coach Aaron Feis, who instead of hiding or running away, tried to save equally many students as he could before he was killed.

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February. 23

Deerfield Beach High School Students walked most 11 miles to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to show their solidarity, as teachers and staff returned to the school for the first fourth dimension since the shooting.

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February. 24

The Los Angeles Dodgers honors the victims of the school shooting during a game against the Kansas City Royals.

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February. 25

Students are allowed to return to school three days earlier they have to return to class. The schoolhouse is surrounded by signs of support from around the country.

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Feb. 26

Schoolhouse shooting survivor Maddy Wilford talks to reporters at Broward Health Northward well-nigh her recovery. She thanked Coral Springs Fire Section Lt. Laz Ojeda, who was in tears, for helping to salvage her life.

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February. 27

Students and alumni from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhouse met with Speaker Paul Ryan at his offices in the U.Due south. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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Feb. 28

Students render to class for the get-go time since the Valentine'southward Twenty-four hours massacre.

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March four

The NRA releases the "Fourth dimension Is Running Out" video threatening reporters for biased reporting.

"To every lying member of the media, to every Hollywood phony, to the role model athletes who use their free oral communication to alter and undermine what our flag represents …Your Time is running out," NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch said in the video.  "The clock starts now."

March 5

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhouse mass shooting survivor Mei-Ling Ho-Shing, 17, participates in a discussion about the demand for gun control with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schults and Broward Canton Schoolhouse Board member Rosalind Osgood.

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March 6

Sarah Chadwick, the student who responded to Trump's start tweet about the shooting with disdain, tweets a response spoofing the NRA spokeswoman's threatening video to promote the March for Our Lives.

"To every spokeswoman with an hourglass who uses free oral communication to modify and undermine what our flag represents...Your Fourth dimension is running out. The clock starts now."

March 7

Fred Guttenberg, father of murdered Marjory Stoneman Douglas freshman Jamie Guttenberg, speaks during a coming together with U.South. Senate Democrats in the visitors middle at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. He was property an article about the NRA's threatening video.

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March 13

U.Due south. Sen. Orrin Hatch, Republican from Utah,  hugs Patrick Fiddling, son of Ryan Picayune, who lost his xiv-year-old girl Alaina Petty during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.  They were attention a printing conference to discuss the Terminate Schoolhouse Violence Act in front of the U.Due south. Capitol in Washington.

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March 14

Students from all over the country walk out of class to evidence solidarity with Marjory Stoneman Douglas Loftier Schoolhouse students' demands for gun control.

March 23

Dan Rather hosts a SiriusXM Roundtable Special Upshot with Parkland, Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhouse Students and activists Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Alex Wind (pictured), and Jaclyn Corin at SiriusXM Studio on March 23, 2018 in Washington, DC.

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