This story has been corrected to show that Cuomo quoted 80,000
gun deaths nationwide since Sandy Hook, not 8,000.
Like their peers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman last month shot 17 students and faculty to
death, the Excel students have strong thoughts and feelings about the impact of
gun violence, and the changes they want to see locally and
nationwide.