SFGATE: Anger bubbles over at funerals for shooting victims

Anger bubbles over at funerals for shooting victims
Published on February 17, 2018 at 12:24PM by By TERRY SPENCER, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — As families began burying their dead, authorities questioned whether they could have prevented the attack on a South Florida high school where a gunman took the lives of 14 students, the athletic director, a coach and a geography teacher. At funerals and in the streets of Parkland, a suburb on the edge of the Everglades, anger bubbled over at the senselessness of the shooting and at the widespread availability of guns. A rally to support gun-safety legislation was scheduled for Saturday at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. During a funeral Friday for 18-year-old Meadow Pollack, her father looked down at his daughter's plain pine coffin and screamed in anguish as Gov.
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