'Stick with the fight,' urge young gun control activists

Following 2023's deadliest mass shooting in the US that occurred in Lewiston, Maine, last week, young gun control activists are once again speaking up against the failures of lawmakers amid an all too familiar tragedy.

- Maya Yang

Last Wednesday night, a gunman opened fire at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Maine's second most populous city, killing 18 people including a 14-year-old boy.

Robert Card, a suspect in the killings, was found dead late last Friday after authorities had issued arrest warrants for multiple counts of murder and launched a huge manhunt for him.

The shootings have prompted widespread outcry from young activists including David Hogg and Trevon Bosley, co-founder and board chair of the March for Our Lives organisation.

As members of the youth-led gun control movement born out of the US's deadliest high school mass shooting the 2018 shooting in which 17 people were killed in Parkland, Florida - Hogg and Bosley represent thousands of young Americans demanding change.

"What's happened is obviously heartbreaking, but at the same time, extremely frustrating," 23-year-old Hogg said. In 2018, Hogg survived the Parkland shooting and went on to co-lead the pro-gun control March for Our Lives rally.