One of the students who survived the mass shooting at a Florida high school last month said that his generation is “the mass shooting generation.”

“I was born months after Columbine,” Cameron Kasky said on a "60 Minutes" segment that aired Sunday, referring to the mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. “I’m 17 years old and we’ve had 17 years of mass shootings.”

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Kasky is one of several student survivors of the shooting who has emerged as a vocal advocate for gun control.

Another student survivor, Alex Wind, said his generation knows “what it’s like firsthand” to be in a shooting.

“We are the generation that’s had to be trapped in closets, waiting for the police to come or waiting for a shooter to walk into our door,” he said.

Kasky and Wind are both members of a group formed by student survivors of the Parkland, Fla., shooting demanding lawmakers take action on gun control.

Seventeen people were killed when a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month.

The students have been thrust into the national spotlight in the weeks since the shooting.

Among their initiatives is the “March for Our Lives,” set to take place in D.C. on March 24.