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Assayer of Student Opinion.

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Activist Emma Gonzalez speaks with counter protestor outside of the panel discussion.

March For Our Lives student activists stop in El Paso for town hall

July 12, 2018

The March for Our Lives – Road to Change bus tour stopped in downtown El Paso at the El Paso Community Foundation on Tuesday, July 10, where high school students from around the nation including survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School...

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El Paso high school students march toward San Jacinto Plaza in downtown El Paso as they participate in the national March For Our Lives on Saturday, March 24.

March For Our Lives rally takes over downtown El Paso

Elenie Gonzalez and Michaela Román March 24, 2018

Hundreds of demonstrators including students, educators and parents took the streets of downtown El Paso in unison with the national March For Our Lives movement. The El Paso march was just one of at least 846 other planned protests across the globe on...

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Two months into 2018: 18 gun involved school incidents

Michaela Román and Christian Vasquez February 19, 2018

The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High have now been added to the list of 150,000 American students who have experienced a mass shooting since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. This year, there have been 18 school incidents that have...

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The search for solutions in the aftermath

The search for solutions in the aftermath

Adrian Broaddus, Copy Editor February 19, 2018

One day I know I’m going to have to tell my children about the Parkland, Florida, shootings. As I sat in my chair at work on Wednesday afternoon drinking my second cup of coffee, I got an alert on my watch for a school shooting. It said that there...

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Not just another mass shooting

Not just another mass shooting

Elenie Gonzalez, Staff reporter February 19, 2018

I never thought that I would ever have a close connection to one of the worst mass shootings in history. To me though, they’re all the worst because one life lost is too many. My cousin, his girlfriend and their three best friends were all victims...

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Military weapons are for war, not civilians

Military weapons are for war, not civilians

Jason Green, Contributor February 19, 2018

I was a senior in high school in 1999 when the massacre at Columbine High School took place. We were already home from school because of the time difference, I was on the East Coast, and I remember watching it all unfold on TV. It seemed at the time...

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Gun control comes  with a voter cost

Gun control comes with a voter cost

Editorial Staff October 2, 2017

This Sunday, Americans experienced the worst mass-shooting in the modern history of the country, with 59 dead, 500-plus injured when a now-deceased shooter attacked the attendees at a country music festival in Las Vegas. In an act of domestic terrorism,...

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