Florida School Shooting: ‘60 Minutes’ With Stoneman Kids

PARKLAND, FL — The whole country knows them by now. We collectively wiped away tears as they courageously told their stories and called “B.S.” They challenged the titans of the political world to do the right thing and won our hearts even if we didn’t happen to see eye to eye with them on gun control and arming teachers.

Long-running CBS news magazine “60 minutes” kicked off a week of coverage on the network highlighting the most recognizable faces to emerge from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. The expanded coverage began with the program’s Sunday night broadcast. It has been little more than a month since the Valentine’s Day shooting that claimed 17 mostly young lives.

“What do you think about this issue of arming teachers?,” asked the show’s correspondent of Parkland spitfire Emma Gonzalez, who has been at the forefront of the student movement to change gun laws.

“It’s stupid,” she insisted in the interview.

“Why,” the correspondent pressed?

“First of all, they have – Douglas ran out of paper for, like, two weeks in the school year, and now all of a sudden they have $400 million to pay for teachers to get trained to arm themselves? Really? Really? If you have – if you’re a teacher and you have a gun, do you keep it in a lockbox, or do you carry it on your person,” Gonzalez explained. “If the teacher dies and the – and a student who’s a good student is able to get the gun, are they now held responsible to shoot the student who’s come into the door? I’m not happy with that.”

Other Parkland students interviewed were Alex Wind, Jaclyn Corin, David Hogg and Cameron Kasky. CBS News will air additional segments throughout the week.

Hogg and Gonzalez will be live on “CBS Thiis Morning” on Monday to kick off the network’s continuing coverage.

Gonzalez’ mother, Beth, had a particularly amusing exchange wth correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi regarding her daughter’s sudden prominence in the nation’s gun debate.

“I’m terrified. It’s like she built herself a pair of wings out of balsa wood and duct tape and jumped off a building,” Beth Gonzalez confided. “ We’re just, like, running along beneath her with a net, which she doesn’t want or think that she needs, you know?

Photo and video courtesy "60 Minutes"