United by mass killings, the group sat down for breakfast.

It was a change of scenery for James Shaw Jr., who wrestled an AR-15 from a gunman at a Waffle House in Tennessee last month, which authorities said likely stopped the murder spree that left four people dead.

The 29-year-old found himself in Florida on Saturday, trading the Waffle House for a Denny’s with some company – students from Parkland.

“(T)he Most Legendary Breakfast ive ever had in my life,” Emma González said on Twitter afterward.

It was in response to a similarly glowing sign of affection.

“I met one of my heros today,” Shaw wrote on Twitter, with a photo of him posing with González and a blue-checked teddy bear. “Meeting the young adults of the Parkland incident so much fire and inspiration in their eyes was a great joy,” he said in a later tweet.

There were some other mass shootings between the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and the April 22 diner killings in Antioch, outside Nashville, Tennessee.

But those two incidents have stirred the American public in deep yet different ways.

The shooting of 17 people in Parkland ignited unrelenting debate over the role of firearms in American life, renewed calls for gun-control measures and unleashed student activism led by González and others. That activism has caught on in ways rarely seen since the Vietnam War.

The Waffle House killing is a story of heroism and small miracles in a mass shooting – a tragedy rarely ended with bystander intervention. Shaw rushed the gunman and tore away his rifle. The gunman then fled and was apprehended a day later by authorities.

González has been perhaps the most prominent figure among the Parkland students, joined by David Hogg, who was also on hand for the Saturday breakfast.

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