New York politicians, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, appeared across the city Wednesday during students’ city-sanctioned walkouts to advocate for stronger gun-control laws on the one-month anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead.
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