and with march for our lives. this is not a mere publicity stunt, a single day in the span of history. this is a movement. this is a movement reliant on the persistence and the passion of its people. [cameron] we were kids trying to be gifted political speakers. the same age that we were tryin to figure out how to get through calculus. we were kids doin our best. fight for our lives before it s someone else s job. [cheering] [music] starting a new chapter can be the most thrilling thing in the world. there s an abundance of reasons to get started.
so, my friends and i organized a group that ended up calling ourselves the march for our lives. welcome to the revolution. [cameron] with the goal of creating a nationwide protest to get meaningful gun reforms. what you are witnessing right now is a movement inspired by high schoolers. teenagers decided they wanted change, and they weren t going to leave it up to the adults anymore. i wanna bring in cameron kasky, he s a junior. [cameron] i was an organizer for the town hall. cnn reached out to me because they knew i was running march for our lives. they said, please prepare a question for senator rubio. senator rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the nra? i think that my generation was taught to be polite, particularly women and girls.
i m not sure we ve passed that on, and, and i think that s a good thing. do you believe it should be harder to obtain these semi-automatic weapons? [shannon] you should question authority figures. you should call them out when they re being dishonest. and so when i saw cameron call out senator rubio, i thought, good for you. i support the things that i have stood for and fought for during my time here. more nra money? more nra money? [marco] i, there, that. that is the wrong way to look.. first of all. marco rubio was pretty cowed, i think, by those kids, and i was glad to see it. [crowd chanting] [mark] the youth movement that was fueled by march for our lives certainly got the attention of politicians of all stripes in the sense that things were changing. that the perception of the gun violence issue was changing. it was undeniable. [matt] americans back stricter gun laws by nearly a two to one margin according to a new cbs poll that was conducted after the school shooting at marjo