Hood River Valley High School sophomore Eva Jones told a panel of Senate Democrats in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday gun legislation to increase background checks, close all loopholes, raise the gun ownership age, and ban all assault weapons is needed.  Jones spoke at the invitation of Senator Ron Wyden as part of a group of parents, teachers, students, and law enforcement representatives seeking swift action to strengthen gun laws.  Jones said more security isn’t the answer to making schools safer, calling school-wide murder “so normalized by gun culture that we approach these like a fire drill,” and “we cannot allow our nation to go along with this any longer.”  She also said to kids guns are not a partisan or divisive issue, and that “it’s time for America to the education and lives of their children in front of their gun fetish.”  She added if students are immersed into an atmosphere of fear and walls, they can’t focus on creative problem solving and growth.