'Ready to fight': Young people joining politics advocating for gun control cite Parkland

Camille Parkinson won't be old enough to vote Tuesday. But that hasn't stopped the 17-year-old from knocking on doors in Chester County and asking people who can vote to do it.

"[One woman] said: You're the first person that has come to my door and has talked to me about any candidates, and you're a high schooler," Parkinson recalled.

She figures her voice could turn into someone's vote - and she has a lot to say. The Henderson High senior is among a wave of young people mobilizing for the midterm elections - whether to turn out voters or register themselves - and energized specifically by the issue of gun violence.

"What bothers me the most is going to school being safe, ... that's a human right. And I feel like that's being taken away from our generation," Parkinson said at a September gun-control event in Coatesville. "We're ready to fight and get laws changed."