PARKLAND: Six years after losing their son in the massacre at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School , Joaquin Oliver’s parents are sending a message through a new video game. It’s called The Final Exam and to win, you must survive a school shooting.
The game is filled with not only the sights and sounds of a school shooting including the gunfire, but it also features educational items.
Not all parents are sure this is the way to prevent school shootings.
Broward County School Board member Lori Alhadeff lost her daughter Alyssa in the massacre, and she believes the game should be taken straight to legislators who can make real change, not students.
“I wouldn’t want them to have trauma related to such a video and then I don’t want kids scared to go to school,” she said.
In the years since the tragedy, Manuel Oliver said there have been several more school shootings in the United States. He says there hasn’t been any progress and that’s why he and his wife created this game. The goal is to reach young people and teach them that there are laws that can help change things.