WASHINGTON — Serena Rodrigues remembers how she felt four years ago, during her first March for Our Lives rally in Orlando, Florida, when she took a moment to watch a seemingly endless throng of people march together in support of gun control.
The West Palm Beach, Florida, native — then just a college student — found the experience empowering, turning the grief she felt after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School into a conviction that the country might be ready to do something about firearms-related violence.
Now 23, Rodrigues on Saturday once again gathered for a rally in response to another school mass shooting — but the emotional experience was a little different this time.