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Parents Bring ‘Back’ Parkland Shooting Victim Through AI To Push Gun Control

Tim Pearce
Parents Bring ‘Back’ Parkland Shooting Victim Through AI To Push Gun Control
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The parents of a student killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland High School in Florida are using their dead son’s likeness to push people to vote for politicians who support more restrictions on firearms.

Manuel and Patricia Oliver, the parents of Joaquin Oliver, founded the organization Change The Ref (CTR) after their son and 16 others were killed at Parkland on Feb. 14, 2018. CTR is dedicated to training young people to promote stricter gun control measures through activism.

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