D. W. This film takes us to a country where the Younger Generation is rising up they no longer want to watch their siblings cast mates and friends get killed. Newtown Orlando Las Vegas each place has witnessed a mass murder with over 20 dead these tragedies are happening more and more often we were alive 1st. We learn every year in high school or college. We knew about what happened in orlando. On valentines day 2018 there was a massacre at montreux Stoneman Douglas high school in park in florida. Like. Every single time like. Nothing happened people love to play it off you know boxing prayers our entire nation. With one heavy heart is praying for the victims and their families. For once it was just like. Enough is enough for. A Student Initiative organize the biggest protest in the u. S. Since the 1960 s. When Young Americans took to the streets to oppose the vietnam war millions took part in the march from lives in spring 2018 to demonstrate against guns in their country guns to kill their friends and that moment was an absolutely riveting and catalyzing moment i think for the country that is different from anything weve seen before. At the same time the arms industry was upgrading and launching new products on the market it has so theres very many factors that make that specific gun an amazing piece. More than 30000. 00 people dying through gun violence in the u. S. Every year in some areas the situation is completely out of control but rather than abolish guns the government stands behind the arms industry. Back to hell. Teenagers are voicing their rage right outside the headquarters of a powerful Gun Lobby Group the n r a they no longer want a system where politicians sound exactly like the arms industry. And. The protest movement has been growing since spring 2018 its calling for tougher gun laws and to finally make access to weapons more difficult can american teenagers succeed where so many others have failed. Parkland is a small wealthy town. In florida with a population of 30000 its mainly the white middle and upper who live here. Some of our biggest problems in parkland were speeding complaints that the bulk of trash wasnt being picked up properly and people leaving their car doors unlocked. It was found times they and it was the day a lot of analysts actually wasnt really looking forward to this day because all she wanted it was somebody the love her she wanted a valentine. And i can remember then driving alyssa to school and i opened the door to the car and alyssa got out. There was a pretty normal day we were all in my class like you to be american governments and its the irony of all ironies but we were talking about the no thats a Rifle Association you have this Interest Group that is so powerful. That i loved her and last time that i would see alyssa live if. There was a murder at school that day among the 3000 students and that teaches loreal her death couldnt reach her door to a new so on her cell phone and began to panic she could only watch as other parents embrace the children in really. I just started screaming on top of my lungs because you know i know life times passing by and i know my daughter she she would have told me that she was ok and this is mother could do nothing but stand outside and imagine what was happening to her daughter some of these students and teachers and Staff Members theyve seen what most people dont see unless theyve been at war. There were over 400 people in that building and the ones who got out had to walk over dead by. Lori our deaths daughter alyssa was among the dead. The police found the perpetrator it hidden himself among the group of fleeing students and wandered around outside for over an hour he was a former student 19 year old Nicholas Cruz on february 14th 2018 he shocked and 3 teachers and 14 children at marjories dome and doctors high school. My husband and i later we went to the funeral home and we spent 2 hours planning the funeral arrangements for lester. And then we got to go see a lesser. And she was shot in the heart and she was shot and top of the head in the hand and the femoral artery and her body was so cold and i was taking my hands i was trying to warm her body because i had a mother in china break our back to life. A few weeks later and parkland more details had come to light about the Killer Police had visited nicholas crews at his home several times before the rampage because neighbors and relatives were concerned about his guns but the police didnt confiscate them they said the 19 year old had acquired them legally including his a ar 15 a semi automatic thats controversially not cast as an Assault Rifle after the incident the police found this video on his cell phone. And. Next. How was a teenager with such clear behavioral problems allowed to have a rifle that only the military is allowed to have in other countries. Several days after the massacre a few parklane students resolved to take on the lankas gun laws of the United States of america teenagers versus politicians. Have that is what come up and coming to my theory is that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have been and made. When nothing is going to be done about it i dont have the after him how much money he received from the National Rifle the with the. Jamal lemmy was also among the students fighting back the creative head of the movement he designed t. Shirts containing a message for Young Americans. The blue in the u. S. Flag is a q. R. Code scanning it with a cell phone provided information about the midterm elections of all time 2018. So our target audiences are those are not voters of this country and generally think of the nonvoters of this country the huge demographic is 18 to 20 not so young people this country they wanted to motivate these millions of potential young voters to register before the elections so that they could vote for politicians who favored stricter gun laws you cant fold if youre not registered and we know that young people tend to vote in lower numbers than any other age category in 2014 only about 20 percent of the youngest age cohort voted in those midterm elections and one of the key efforts is to try and increase that number by mobilizing students getting them interested in this issue Robert Spitzer is one of the most renowned political scientists in the country he teaches at Suny Cortland University in new york state the author of numerous books on guns in the us most students most young people generally favor stronger gun laws to a higher degree than older categories of americans saw the potential for Younger Voters if they enter the system at they register and actually vote to change political outcomes to change electoral outcomes is great. But the general political situation in the spring of 2018 was not conducive to change u. S. President Donald Trumps predisaster barack obama tried to enforce stricter gun laws and failed in congress. The current president is an advocate of the arms industry joining v. L. Action campaign he received 30000000. 00 u. S. Dollars from the n. R. A. Theres a dedication you have in a traditional asian fighting to protect your 2nd. The 2nd amendments of the Us Constitution gives americans the right to keep and bear arms and millions of americans claim that right to this day. The president touted an idea that originated with the n. R. A. Teaches should carry guns to protect their students and shoot in an emergency. Because almost nothing i would actually give a bonus to every coach teacher etc because they should go through training as good as they are they should go through a very strong strenuous training i know this proposal was rejected by the main us teachers unions and both of them have been the sefer us and saying that this is the exact wrong answer to School Shootings and they dears that were not going to try and deal with the issue of guns in america guns in the hands of youth securing safe spaces for our children were going to have shoot ups a few days after the tragedy at their school in parkland the teenagers went public together with teachers and surviving relatives they met politicians on a Television Show and dana loesch as spokeswoman for the n. R. A. I want to bring in right now senior Emma Gonzalez she has a question i was. Very quickly the 17 Year Old High School student became the face of the Youth Movement right dana loesch the shooter at our school obtain weapons that he used on us legally do you believe that it should be harder to obtain these semiautomatic and modify of weapons and the modifications for these weapons to make them fully automatic like on stocks i want to answer your question. This individual was nuts and i nor the millions of people that i represent as a part of this organization that im here speaking for none of us support people who are crazy who are a danger to themselves who are a danger to others getting their hands on a firearm or to detect a bomb studies show that just 2 out of 10 of these killings i carried out by a mentally ill person and the facts are that when you look at Mass Shootings in the us high profile Mass Shootings. And weve done with legal guns that people purchased so theyve passed the background check and then secondly theyre not often you know the majority are not committed by people of Mental Health issues the issue is a lot of people getting very. And a lot of matches are going by angry people who want to take out at that point in time vengeance and they have easy access to firearms to accomplish that was another student confronted republican senator marco rubio on t. V. Look at Nicholas Cruz but the point is youre here so senator rubio can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the and i was. Rubio wouldnt oncet the question for senator had received over 3000000. 00 in contributions from the n. R. A. During the Election Campaign hes part of a system that the parkin students want to fight. Who are on our way to a typical american gun store and all and the florida students dont want to abolish the right to possess arms they just want more rigorous background checks and minimum age of 21 and a ban on Assault Rifles including the a r 15 murder weapon used in parkland to buy this in florida all you have to do is fill out a form can prove youre not a criminal. When the store owner sean gets a new rifle and he shows it off to his friends who come by regularly. And we can do that with Kevin Maxwell is an instructor with the n. R. A. The a r 15 rifle is the favorite weapon of Many Americans including those who commit Mass Shootings think. Its no more lethal than any other firearm. Its not the configuration of the gun that makes the firearm lethal nonlethal its what the bullet does when it hits you and thats determined by the person firing it not the gun the gun doesnt decide who to shoot. This is the logic of the n. R. A. And its supporters. The system also stifles the politicians who want change like linda stuart a democratic member of the Florida Senate she represents the Greater Orlando area 18 months before the parkland massacre her district experienced a similar tragedy. A gunman in the pulse nightclub killed 49 people and injured 53 some of them severely he was also using an a r 15 semiautomatic rifle. There is no reason for someone to have that high capacity type gun they dont need it for hunting were not for taking guns away from people and allowing them to enjoy a sport that is not a gun that is for sport that is a gun to kill people and they need to be banned. While tens of thousands of people in orlando mourn the victims linda stuart proposed a new law in the Florida State senate. Bill that i put forward right after the paul shooting was to ban about 70 types of high capacity guns and magazines and it didnt get a hearing the 1st year at all. Before a bill can be voted on in the Florida Senate it must be passed by the Judiciary Committee and according to the law the Senate Judiciary chad decides which bills are debated in this case it was republican greg stube. Ringback mr stevie didnt want to hear ma bell so he was a huge n. R. A. Supporter and that and they backed him heavily and he absolutely felt that guns should be anywhere and everywhere. These images are from the politicians own Election Campaign video. Refused an interview with us. The young parklane demonstrators were hoping their protest the biggest one the u. S. Had seen in decades would mobilize people to replace the politicians standing in the way of change. The march for our lives took place on march the 24th 2018 the students raised several 1000000. 00 through crowd funding and donations from celebrities like Steven Spielberg and George Clooney with help from their Political Science teacher and p. R. Strategists they assembled 800000 demonstrators at the capitol in washington d. C. And that moment was an absolutely riveting and catalyzing moment i think for the country that is different from anything weve seen before. On this march day in more than 700 cities across America Young people in particular protested against gun violence and the political influence of the arms industry. They also demonstrated how skillfully they could use social media through twitter they created a network with millions of other Young Americans with our social media Knowledge University to reach anyone you know. I think the was literally in the palm of your hands and at that moment it was just people who just were feeling this pain and needed to express themselves and the movie was born within a few weeks and the guns are as i love when ive got 1500000 twitter followers twice as many as the n. R. A. The 17 year old was the most speak at that day. 6 minutes and about 20 seconds and a little over 6 minutes 17 of our friends were taken from us 15 were injured and everyone absolutely everyone in the Douglas Community was forever altered 6 minutes and 20 seconds with an a r 15 and my friend carmen would never complain to me about piano practice erin fice would never call kiera miss sunshine alyssa ahdaf would never jamie gottenburg would never met okalik what however. I she remained silent for as long as it took the kana and parkland and 17 peoples lives. Since the time that i came out here. It has been 6 minutes and 20 seconds the shooter has ceased shooting and will soon abandon his rifle blend in with the students as they escape and walk free for an hour before a rest fight for your lives before its someone elses child. I. It was a chance for emma and her friends to bring the discussion of young peoples lives and their concerns to a National Stage in a way that had never been done before. My name is out of scaring im 70 im a senior no of mondeo college from the was not. A problem has been at the forefront of gonzales for a very long time. I know many. I know many people who have lost loved ones friends and family on the one regular basis due to gone by. The student from chicago addressed an issue that is often forgotten in the media shooting in schools not even the biggest gun problem in the United States of the almost 35000 People Killed by gun violence in 2017 the majority were victims of suicide followed by homicide and only about one percent were victims of shootings like the one in pocket and. Weve traveled to chicago the city with the most gun violence victims in the us on average around 600 people are shot here every year as many as new york and los angeles combined but these things dont happen downtown in the center of this prosperous city. A few kilometers away in the west side of chicago one of the main africanamerican districts its one of the most violent areas of the u. S. These are common scenes many of the 600. 00 gun violence deaths per year in chicago happen here. Innocent bystanders are often caught in a crossfire black teenagers in the u. S. So 15 times more likely to get shot than white teenagers this is what theyre surrounded with growing up. The right lives in the middle of it all. Left my organs a young lady gets shot in front of my house right across the street and i was the only one i went out for go help her like ive never taken a class on how to deal with gun violence thank gosh i was so im eating right now fire well now one in my ear and started applying pressure for the gosh i was that was the weekend where chicago with having a lot of should have gone now and all of the hot little wiped down like they werent taken. Far away from downtown westside seems like a completely different world theres very little hope and few prospects people say the city isnt doing enough to create opportunities especially for young people. A lot of young people get job firstly a mock munity you have to have the support their family so you have young kids my age and younger working after school and they have to go home and help their family and you know. The job that we have building they dont pay that much so some of the young people will take the illegal row and go like that. Try to get money that way ironically they used to be at least some form of order head because the area was among large gangs but many of the gang leaders are either in prison or dead and so violence escalates more often and. Sometimes entering the wrong stall walking on the wrong side of the street is enough though i got to be like songs by the loud pack team who come from here also deal with the every day struggle. Selling drugs is a constant for. Anyone who disrupt someones business wants to steal their business talks to the police get support its. There is certainly racism in america a sense that africanamericans who live in these communities perhaps bear some responsibility for the crime that occurs and its not our problem. So might say many in the White Community that those factors together have yielded a situation where it simply hasnt received the attention that it really should. In the middle of this area of Gang Violence is North LawndaleHigh School Martin luther king the famous civil rights activist once lived next door hes the role model for a group called the peace warriors they want to solve conflicts without violence the problem is its all theyve ever known growing up. Well you his gosh us and his polices our rights are basically my whole life has been nothing but go about our roles my brothers are gone his name was Titus Jackson or he was killed. He was killed on monday for by the river my now self he was found there a car. Almost everyone here is traumatized but no one can a full therapy chairing the meeting is 17 year old audrey right the president of the peace Warrior Group on so the 1st thing go do you know how use they do into a line like start a game about simply honey i love you didnt say if i did then i would like but the game is a kind of read oxidation exercise and an affordable way for the group to deal with docs on. The leader of the project is gerald smith hes a guidance counselor at the school and a pastor and the charge for almost 10 years hes been teaching students the principles of Martin Luther king. Was nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people what i like about that particular principle is i chose the washed all right its not just something you do when youre in school are you do when you put on a shirt it becomes something that you place as a commitment to a way of life and dealing with all tough situations was the peace boreas have reduced violent altercations of his school by 70 percent the group is also like him replacement family many here have been orphaned by gun violence including or terry right. You know when appeals were really being helped me cope with a lot of the emotions that i was bob dylan up from move them my mom and my brother and my father was a short period of butt. I had to under i had to come to understand it its ok to agree but you cant make. Make your losses make you lose yourself you know and its me a lot to understand there. Is this new every day and im very appreciative that you introduced me its a piece where because had i not i dont know what i would have though my life. Is a piece warrior shot is given to those who have demonstrated that they solve conflicts without violence its the 9th day with no incidents at school. Thats how they measure success those who prove themselves to be ambassadors for peace are then supposed to carry the idea to the outside world out into the streets to friends and family every time they have to go home after school or 3 says the tension comes back. Their group hasnt attracted much attention outside chicago but it didnt escape the Youth Movement from parkland the leaders have met the peace warriors several times like here in chicago. Been singing weekend after we left 76 people were shot. Right after we left so to hear stories like that that deeply pains in our shoulders really even before we actually had a peace march was that this movement is not only are not its not only ours its about creating this coalitions and creating relationships with these with different organizations and different you that there was around the country to continue this message the parklane students have been continuing to expand their network and now in alliance with many other initiatives nationwide pledging for stricter gun laws. Next stop is newtown connecticut theres a small town was the site of yet another tragedy a 20 year old committed a massacre here in december 22 and. He shant 20 children and 6 teachers here at Sandy Hook Elementary School is murder weapons also included an a r 15 semiautomatic rifle. The president of the time barack obama then trying to enforce stricter gun laws but in vain he didnt get a majority. Of people cheered as the march for our lives students arrived in newtown the final stop on their road to change talk jamal and his team traveled through 60 cities in the u. S. To encourage young people in particular to vote they were constantly stopped for photos and interviews. You know at that point something no one would know my name in the young kids walking on my golly im so inspired by you like like you know whether is asking for a picture you know tell me like you know what the one doing the score asking for advice comes like. Wow this is crazy because when you think about you know inspiring someone you know you think you have to be an athlete or you have to be a movie star. Thousands of people came to hear what they had to say the head of the midterm elections thank you. What this shows me this country is higher up politicians dont represent them this country is tired of children die. This centurys tired of the racism discriminatory rhetoric that is priest every single day. Visitors at the event could register to vote surveys show that more and more young people registering them before. On the form it all 6 which party you would like to be affiliated with i when i 1st registered as a republican then i became an affiliated and now im a democrat well being so close to this tragedy and then watching what happened in park and seeing how the democrats stood up and really wanted to enact change for common sense gun laws thats the party i want to view if i dont want to be of a party that just sends prayers and gets nothing done the Youth Movement is doing parents initiatives from newtown have failed to do in the past to make the fight against gun violence a long time issue. After newtown people said well if newtown doesnt change anything what will. And i think there are is a lot of. You know cynicism some depression and just a loss of hope i think when you measure the engagement in the gunboats Venture Movement today versus 10 years ago its a dramatic change. This is the annual gun and knife show in indianapolis manufacturers come here to present their latest products studies show that since the 980 s. The number of households with guns has fallen but there is still an estimated 265000000 privately owned guns in the yass. The n. R. A. Is well aware of an existential threat to their political agenda which is this most gun owners most gun rights advocates in the general population tend to be older and white they are slowly dying off obviously meaning guns on spread evenly across the population 78 percent of americans have no gun atoll but 22 percent of americans only lots of guns. Thats why manufacturers are targeting new groups women teenagers even children the teenagers that is gun show seem interested but its not representative of the big picture according to the Violence Policy Center the majority of Young Americans are no longer interested in these kinds of weapons and now the parklane students and their fellow campaigners immobilizing people against rifles like these to have this movement occur at this point in time is the exact worst possible thing that could happen to the n. R. A. In the gun industry if this movement has impact and has longevity you have a generation turns against violence gun violence the most egregious types of firearms sold this country thats very dangerous for the industry. Fairfax in virginia is home to the headquarters of the national Rifle Association the n. R. A. Did not respond to our multiple requests for an interview. The parklane students and their supporters are demonstrating here today the scene is symbolic of American Society on one side advocates of stricter gun laws. And on the other a progun group the patriot picket see themselves as a protest group who are campaigning to preserve the 2nd amendment. Second amendment its not like a drivers license is not a privilege or by the government 2nd amendment. Rights have a right to bear arms not necessarily government approved and it appears theyre just not getting history lessons to appreciate that this is one of the only countries on earth that has thats. The Youth Movement is repeatedly accused of wanting to ban people from owning guns in general. I mean our goal is not to take the 2nd amendment away and we have so that time time again but i think its just do it when its like anything its when the word is hate involved its its the lack of information. They reiterate that they just want access to guns to be more strictly regulated some states have responded for example by raising the minimum age of possession from 18. 00 to 21. 00. Because of the mobilization of the Parkland High School students they were able to put significant pressure on states around the country such as for mot which is a very strong gun tradition also next to the whole series of new tougher gun laws other states have done the same and that by itself has been a remarkable achievement of that that has occurred specifically as a result of the efforts of these park and High School Students become lobbyists have been reporting on this from their own t. V. Station the town has become increasingly aggravated the end already is under an all out assault anti gun forces are rallying conspiring in an effort to destroy this Great Organization we will not let it happen or engaged passionate. Patriotic membership will squash the hate coming yes we have to i mean the n. R. A. Is an organization that wants to sell guns they continue to sell guns theyre the largest lobbying group in america and when they are attacking us it just shows that what we are doing something right and these young people know that Many Americans dont give the issue much focus. And. Media coverage of the Mass Shootings often gives the impression that all americans are engaged in the issue when in fact its only a small minority. These protests however now seem to have woken up the silent majority who want stricter gun laws which should help to legally ban guns like the eof 15. And knock ons on ascent have fellow protesters receive plenty of encouragement. Just so impressed by it. And sometimes it comes from unlikely places u. S. War veterans have pledged their support with this video about gun violence i was stationed at camp in a condo in iraq and afghanistan vietnam my Service Weapon was an m. 4 Assault Rifle my Service Weapon was an m. 16 its basically the same you know what it is they say as the a r 15 same weapon thats killed hundreds of people in the deadliest Mass Shootings in america under the power of this weapon 1st firsthand firsthand and there is no reason no reason no reason why anyone other than military and Law Enforcement should have an assault weapon like this. The arms industry knows that and they are 15 was used in almost all the Mass Shootings of the last decade. After the last manufactories vehemently oppose a ban. On the gun manufacturers in america like assault weapons because theres a. Hi mark upon them the profit that they make on them is greater than for other kinds of records. As a result of the student demonstrations and then networks with other protest initiatives around 20 states decided to tighten their gun laws moderately and the number of registered young voters rose significantly. The new Youth Movement has made a big impact in politics but in Society People are still scared about gun violence more than ever whats happened in the past 20 years is that no one feels safe anymore you cant go to a Movie Theater you cant go to a Shopping Mall you cant send your kids to school you cant go to your place of business you cant drive your car well were going to somehow being involved or the victim of a mass shooting move. Back of the gun shop in orlando to add to the many variations of the a r 15 including childrens rifles in pink theres another new hot product on the market guns with silencers. Fluently or believe all those different ways. Nick. Here in florida with its lax laws the new generation of guns can be bored very easily. 17 shot and theyre 17. David daria is from boston and he tells us for anything with more the 9 bullets you need an extra license that can hold up to 17 rounds which would not be applicable in boston by any stretch of the means the suppressor would not be applicable at all so i mean thats definitely it has some. Very many factors that make that specific gun an amazing piece. But why would someone need it especially with a silencer. Well i own a scrap metal business and numb and you know our cash situation on a regular basis and you know if god forbid i have a did me have the time that i needed to protect myself i wouldnt have to wake everyone up. One state 2 worlds. In Coral Springs near parkland concerned fathers continue to collect guns with the police but with approximately 265000000. 00 guns in the us taking them out of circulation completely is impossible and there will always be new guns to replace them. Were in way too deep for any quick fixes you know were paying the price for decades of a complete laissez faire gun policy in this country and that to think there were going to just sort of overnight change this is not realistic the most important thing we can do right now is return off the spigot for the manufacturers whether they succeeds depends on politics media reported on the results of the midterm elections from the capitol in washington in the house of representatives the democrats won a majority good news for the students. Over 30 republicans closely allied with the n. R. A. Lost their mandate around 2 thirds of the young voters voted for democrats but in the senate the republicans remain the Strongest Force since the midterms trump has no longer had unified rule hes had to compromise with the democrats including on gun legislation. 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