Florida School Shooting: Students & parents demand gun law changes

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Turning anger into action. Family and friends are burying their loved ones killed in last week's school shooting in Florida. People are also calling for tighter gun regulations from elected leaders. As Chris Pollone reports, they're sending out a clear message.

"Enough is Enough"

In Plantation, Florida, not far from the school where a gunman killed 17 people Wednesday, a call for action.

"Not one more, not one more."

Students sending a message to state and federal leaders: Something needs to change.

"We need safety in schools so we don't go to school in fear."

"We want to see assault weapon ban - there is no reason anybody needs to walk into a school with a military grade or assault rifle."

At the same time in Coral Springs, family and friends gathered to say goodbye to parkland shooting victim Alaina Petty.

"I think it's the comfort of just having met her and remembering how loving she was and how much she has like strengthened us."

Petty's one of two funerals Monday as this grieving community mourns the 17 victims. Accused gunman Nikolas Cruz made a brief court appearance Monday afternoon but did not speak publicly. The family, who took Cruz in when his mother died, told NBC'S Kerry sanders they didn't believe Cruz was dangerous.

JAMES SNEAD SHOOTING SUSPECT'S CAREGIVER "I'm not afraid of guns, I respect guns, but part of the stipulation of him moving in with us is that he had to get a gun safe and he did and I thought at that time that I had the only key to the gun safe."

"As it turned out he had one hidden?"

"Yes sir"

State records in Florida show in 2016, mental health investigators concluded Cruz was stable and didn't need to be hospitalized. Florida governor Rick Scott is now demanding the FBI turn over its records after not investigating a tip last month about Cruz's behavior from someone close to the teen.