It is a sick situation; the number of shootings that have taken place and how numb we’re becoming because of them. People can remember the Columbine shooting, the first really big shooting. People remember how scared the nation was, and how it really had an impact on everyone. Now there has been yet another school shooting, and instead of being scared for their lives and the future of America, people are saying comments like “Oh, another one…”

There are however, a handful of students throughout the nation taking action, and they are really showing how big this actually is. Protests from high school students about gun control in Florida has arose and has even got Donald Trump to fly out to Florida and endorse teachers to have guns. It’s nice to see younger people taking action to what older people are afraid to do.

Many are honoring a specific young man who took five shots in his legs and back and saved 20 students in the process. Anthony Borges, a 15-year-old took, five bullets while trying to lock the classroom door that Wednesday. Borges “took the initiative to just save his other classmates,” according to friend Carlos Rodriguez. Borges is currently in the hospital in fair condition, but the doctors say he still has a long endeavor to make and a lot more surgeries to endure. A Go-Fund-Me was made for Borges’s family and has already raised more than $446,000 as of Tuesday.

The journey to the capital, and the sacrifices these kids are making is not only for themselves but for other people and for the sake of gun control in Florida. What these young people are doing is brave, unlike many older people who are too scared to enact anything, and make a difference when it’s obviously needed. On behalf of the rest of the nation who is too feeble to do so, we offer our condolences.