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LANSING — Karla Aren says she traveled to Lansing on Wednesday to protest against gun violence and show her 19-year-old daughter that change is possible.

Aren, 52, a Detroit-area mother of two college students including a 22-year-old Michigan State University senior, said her daughter felt hopeless after a Feb. 13 shooting at MSU killed three students and wounded five others.

“(She) feels like nothing happened after Oxford and Parkland and all of that, nothing happened. Why would it happen now?” Aren said, referring to mass shootings at high schools in Oakland County and Florida.

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“I want to show her and show any other young students who are struggling that our generation can do something,” she added. “People need to use their voices and make sure that they get laws that represent them.”

Aren was one of hundreds at the Capitol on Wednesday pressing for gun reform during a protest that included speeches by Democrats including U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell of Ann Arbor and Elissa Slotkin of Holly, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney...

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