Front page of today's Age
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and the whole story at
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/...trump-20180220-p4z0yu.html?platform=hootsuite
Washington DC: Makenzie Hymes was so heartbroken by the latest shooting at a US school she decided to prepare an Australian history lesson for American politicians. Hymes, a 13-year-old who loves dancing and the piano, wrote the story of Australia's gun control laws on a placard she took to the White House this week where she joined dozens of other school children demanding tougher gun laws.
Most students kept to short slogans. Am I next?" read one. "Fear has no place in school," said another.
But Hymes, a middle school student in Washington DC, wanted Americans to know about John Howard's response to the Port Arthur massacre more than two decades ago. "Australia had its worst mass shooting on April 28, 1996," her placard read, before explaining the bipartisan deal that followed. "The government bought back and destroyed over one million guns," she concluded. "Australia has not had a mass shooting since then."