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student's plea for help in the face of gun violence is getting the attention of the president. ava olsson was 6 when she lost her friend jacob. she says this little boy was the love of her life, the only boy she ever kissed and he was the boy she said she planned to marry. their future together was cut short all because of a teenager with a gun. in september of 2016 police say a 14-year-old boy drove up to ava's school play ground, jumped out of a pickup truck, pointed his pistol at a group of laughing, smiling children enjoying recess and fired. his pistol jammed after about 12 seconds but in those mere moments that 14-year-old shot three people. one bullet hit ava's first grade teacher in the shoulder, another hit a classmate in the foot and the last bullet hit 6-year-old jacob who died three days later. ava was so distraught, so

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