A HUNDRED pupils from the Florida secondary school where Nikolas Cruz shot dead 17 people on Valentine’s Day will demonstrate in the state capital tomorrow to demand gun control.

Members of the Florida legislature have said they will consider introducing a range of measures, including raising the legal age for buying guns to 21, introducing a waiting period before a purchase can be completed, banning “bump stocks” that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly and introducing “gun violence restraining orders” like those in California, where people who have threatened to shoot other people can have their right to own guns suspended for limited periods.

Critics say serious reform of the US gun laws is unlikely because the National Rifle Association (NRA) sponsors so many members of Congress. Fourteen of Florida’s 27 members of the House of Representatives received money from the NRA at the last election.