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Eriqat and his friends came to the high school from the first vigil at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, an emotional service full of STEM families that left many in tears. Seated in the upper reaches of the gym, some students started to get upset when Crow and Bennet, a presidential candidate, took the microphone, calling for Washington to fix the country’s broken gun laws. But the tipping point for the STEM students came when Laura Reeves, a volunteer with the Moms Demand Action gun safety organization, launched into a speech that brought many of the national gun control issues to the forefront. “Her whole speech was about politics, not about Kendrick,” said a 17-year-old STEM senior, who wanted to remain anonymous because he didn’t want to draw unwanted attention. “She painted this really dystopian life with bullets on every corner — that’s not how it is here in Highlands Ranch.”