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Article snippet: Students who survived last week’s school shooting in Florida took their calls for action to the White House on Wednesday, as MORE grapples with how to prevent future gun massacres. One of the solutions the students from Parkland, Fla., pushed for during an emotional meeting with the president is raising the minimum age to purchase firearms — an idea that is picking up some bipartisan support in the Senate. The young students have quickly emerged as powerful voices in the heated gun control debate, with lawmakers saying the students have kept an extra layer of pressure on them to tackle the thorny political issue head-on. But the grassroots student movement, dubbed “Never Again” on social media, has already suffered its first setback in the Florida state legislature and faces attacks from right-wing conspiracy theorists. Still, the widespread national attention and White House visit underscore the growing role that the student activists are playing in the national conversation surrounding gun violence. But it’s unclear whether the movement will actually make progress in the Republican-controlled Congress. “I was born into a world where I never got to experience safety and peace,” Justin Gruber, a student who survived the school shooting, said at the White House. “There needs to be significant change in this country, because this has to never happen again.” Trump hosted a “listening session” on Wednesday with students and teachers who survived the shooting rampage... Link to the full article to read more