The co- founder of March For Our Lives apologized to the senator on Thursday for calling him out for skipping a meeting.
I can't meet with him or his staff because I Trigger him. I just want to have a discussion.
I need to figure out how we can stop these things from happening. We need to end the debate and come to an agreement.
A quick response from the chief of staff of the senator accused the student of lying about the meeting.
There was no one saying such a thing. You must be confused as we had a 2p meeting scheduled with you. Since you are lying and using this all for your own benefit, the meeting is no longer happening.
The reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was email yesterday with our comms team about it Don't lie again, we have Receipts.
After 1 p.m., he called the mix-up an "honest mistake" and said that his staff misled him. I'm sorry.
We would love to meet with you and discuss things in a respectful way. It wasn't true, but I attached it here to make it transparent.
A leading member of the student-led organization March for Our Lives, which announced meetings with more than 50 lawmakers this week ahead of some 450 demonstrations planned across the world to demand gun reform legislation, is a survivor of the shooting at the high school in Florida.
The gun package passed by the House on Wednesday addresses the issue of gun violence in the United States.
However, that package faces GOP opposition in the Senate, where a bipartisan group of senators is working on more limited gun legislation.
The Hill reached out to the three groups.
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