Student leader Kellie Marks calls for stronger gun controls during
governor’s rally
WHITE PLAINS – Governor Cuomo lined up high school students, teachers
and local politicians in front of White Plains High School on Tuesday
to call on the state legislature to adopt his Red Flag Law.
The measure would allow for parents or teachers to ask a judge for an
evaluation of a child who they believe might be a danger to themselves,
students or faculty.
The governor’s proposal comes on the heels of active shoot attacks
on schools across the country.
High school senior Kellie Marks, a student leader, called for action against
gun violence. “We don’t want to wake up every morning questioning
if this will be day we die or this will be the day we mourn the loss of
a loved one.”
She said Congress has the power to enact gun safety legislation, which
she said lawmakers are not doing.
“We have traumatized an entire generation,” Cuomo told the
gathering. “It is shear madness that society could have deteriorated
to this level,” he said. “We are 23 weeks into the new year;
we have had 23 school shootings. We have lost more young people in school
shootings than we lost military personnel at war. How outrageous is that.”
Randy Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers and a
native of Rockland County, blasted the Trump Administration and Congress
for its inaction on gun control.
She said when she was in school there were fire drills; now there are
active shooter drills.”
