edwidge danticat is a haitian-american novelist.aina bien aime, executive director of coalition against trafficking in women. this is democracy now! back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: bob dylan, a very young bob dylan. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. dozens of students who survived last week's school shooting in florida have arrived in tallahassee to push for new gun control measures. it follows last week's mass shooting at the high school. 17 people were killed. the students are holding a rally today outside the florida statehouse just a day after republican-controlled florida house of representatives blocked a bid to bring up a bill to ban sales of assault-style rifles in the state. while the florida shooting has sparked a national debate over guns and the lobbying power of the national rifle association, much less attention has been paid to another aspect of the shooting. the florida gunman, 19-year-old nikolas cruz, was a member of the army junior reserve officer training