Gun control school ‘fashion show’ features bulletproof vests

BOSTON — Gun control activists in Boston have staged a “back-to-school” fashion show featuring bulletproof vests and other safety gear.

Youths participating in Monday’s mock fashion show on Boston City Hall plaza donned helmets and gas masks as they walked down a catwalk to call for stricter gun laws.

Manuel Oliver, the father of one of the victims of the February massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, said the event was meant to show in “very graphic” terms how dangerous sending children to school has become.

Organizers also hung a large banner with the image of Oliver’s son, Joaquin.