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- I don\'t hang out with these kids

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like the way that they
hang out with each other.

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Cause I don\'t have that close friend group

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that exists in Stoneman Douglas.

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I don\'t know them very
well at all, actually,

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except for like David.

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But that\'s cause I\'ve had a class with him

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for an entire year.

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It\'s hard to trust anyone these days

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considering a kid that
I barely fucking know

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tried to kill me, so.

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- [Woman] You look amazing.

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- Thank you.

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Hello, welcome.

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Hi, there\'s a lot of you.

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- Hey, Sam.

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- Hi.

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Before all of this, like
we were normal ass kids

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doing normal ass things.

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At first, I didn\'t want to acknowledge

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what had happened to me.

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But there is this part
of me that kept wanting

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to like say it over and
over and over and again.

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But not because I wanted it to feel real

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but because I wanted to feel less real

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to a point where it becomes a
story opposed to like my life.

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(tense menacing music)
(sirens wailing)

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I remember literally everything
that happened to a tee.

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(sirens wailing)

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I remember things that I was saying.

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I remember things that I was thinking.

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(tense menacing music)

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I was thinking about Nick

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and I was thinking about how he\'s dead.

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And I was thinking about
how he didn\'t have a pulse.

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I was thinking about how
were we gonna get out.

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If he was gonna come back.

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(tense menacing music)

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Was I going to die?

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Was I gonna bleed out?

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Where did I get shot?

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Why am I bleeding from my face?

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Why can\'t I see out my eyes?

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And then I was sitting in my hospital bed

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and I saw Emma on TV.

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- I know this looks like a lot,

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but these are my AP Gov notes.

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The people in the government
who were voted into power

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are lying to us.

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And us kids seem to be
the only ones who notice

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and are prepared to call BS.

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(crowd cheering)

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- [Samantha] It was a moment
of just like confusion.

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And then a moment of complete clarity.

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- Funded by the NRA telling us

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nothing could have ever
been done to prevent this.

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We call BS.

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(crowd cheering)

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They say that tougher gun laws
do not decrease gun violence.

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We call BS.

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- [Samantha] The tears,
the runniness in her eyes,

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the pinkness in her face,

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I could feel her through the screen.

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- We call.

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- [Crowd] BS.

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- In that moment, it felt like
a switch was turned into her.

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And it was electrifying.

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She was on fire.

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- That us kids don\'t know
what we\'re talking about.

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That we\'re too young to understand
how the government works.

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We call.

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- [Crowd] BS.

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- If you agree, register to vote.

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Contact your local congress people

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and give them a piece of your mind.

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- [Samantha] And I remember
just like looking up to her

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and thinking like, wow, I can do that.

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(gentle ominous music)

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(gentle upbeat music)

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(birds chirping)

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- Making meat sauce, I
need mozzarella cheese.

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Is there a mozzarella cheese here?

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Yeah.

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I like to put too many onions in my stuff

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because onions are awesome.

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And I mean, this is my
main source of vegetables.

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This is my post-apocalyptic
cooking show, welcome.

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I burped in my mask.

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I\'m so fucking dumb.

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I just burped in my mask.

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I just don\'t think we\'re
moving fast enough.

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And I know exactly what we need to do

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in order to fix the problem that we have

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and the people in power are not doing that

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because they\'re owned.

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And that\'s really frustrating.

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Before the shooting at our high school

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on February 14th, 2018,

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we were just normal American
high school students.

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In just 6 minutes and 20 seconds however,

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our town became the epicenter of the world

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as 17 hearts stopped beating one by one.

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Another 17 people were injured

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with physical wounds that might heal

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but with emotional
wounds that would never.

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- That building right there,

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that\'s Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

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I don\'t wanna hear anybody
else cry like my sister did

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when she\'d lost four
friends on the same day.

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It physically hurt me to
hear her cry like that.

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- What do we want? Change!

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When we want it? Now!

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What do we want? Change!

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When we want it? Now!

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- [Cameron] Parkland was chaos.

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Children in pain,
survivor\'s guilt, trauma.

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- How many of you lost someone in this?

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And how do you feel about that?

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(crowd crosstalk)

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You can be sad, you can feel heartbroken.

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- The entire community in disarray.

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Just as the media shows
up in its normal droves.

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A collection of students
meeting up in a household

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that does not have any parents in it.

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It all started in this little
town, in this little house

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with a group of 20 kids.

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Most of whom were not invited.

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Most of whom just showed up.

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Everything made so little sense.

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- I\'m halfway through, today.

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- [Cameron] I\'d sleep for
three hours then I would say,

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please let me wake up

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and this is all some horrible nightmare.

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- The first night I
went to Cameron\'s house,

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I drove away with my dad yelling
at me to come back inside.

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He was, before the shooting,
like a Trump supporter

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and very against my rhetoric.

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He didn\'t understand
that my grieving process

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was to do something.

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(crowd shouting)

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- No guns till 21.

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No guns till 21.

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No guns till 21.

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No guns till 21.

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- [Newscaster] One of the
students wounded in the massacre

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has just been released from a hospital.

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18 year old, senior Sam
Fuentes, was shot in both legs.

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Shrapnel hit her in the face.

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She says she saw classmates
on either side of her-

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- [Newscaster 2] Two kids were
killed and four more wounded

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when the shooter opened fire
into that Holocaust classroom.

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- [Newscaster 3] A Holocaust
class that became a target

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during the shooting on February the 14th.

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- [Newscaster 4] Nicholas
Dworet, a senior,

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a star swimmer who had signed

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a scholarship letter of
intent to swim college,

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died in the rampage.

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(waves crashing)

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- I was with Nick just
moments before he passed away.

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Only inches apart.

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I met him my freshman year.

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And we like read \"Lord
of the Flies\" together

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and read like \"Romeo and Juliet\".

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I suppose, when someone
passes away in front of you

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all you can think is like every moment

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you\'ve shared with that person.

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Every detail imprinted in your mind.

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Just a lot of anger and guilt.

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And it\'s like, is there
something that I can do

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to pause that for just a moment?

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- [Man] That\'s fucking great.

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- Yeah, but it\'s not even, okay.

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We were so deeply focused on
preventing it from happening.

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Connecting the trauma to the politics

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and connecting the trauma to the problem,

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the systemic problem.

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The people who actually have

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the opportunity to make the change

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are doing, excuse my language, (beep).

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- We are creating a badge of shame

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for any politicians who are
accepting money from the NRA.

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- We just learned about the NRA,

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like the week before the
shooting in our AP Gov class.

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I was like, there\'s a universe
where this doesn\'t happen

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because there are gun
laws and stuff in place.

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- It\'s the hundreds of millions of dollars

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that the NRA pours into elections.

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And they don\'t care who dies as a result.

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We\'ve seen a government shutdown.

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We\'ve seen tax reform.

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But nothing to save our children\'s lives.

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Are you kidding me?

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- We know how this is gonna end up.

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We know that the politicians are gonna say

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thoughts and prayers.

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They\'re gonna say those words

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and that\'s all they\'re gonna do.

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- Thoughts and prayers.

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- You are in our prayers.

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- We don\'t need politics right now.

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- This is not the time to
jump to some conclusion.

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- [Newscaster] All four
bills on gun control failed.

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- [Cameron] We said, it\'s
always the same shit.

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(tense ominous music)

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So, what if we got to change it this time?

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- NRA go away! NRA go away! NRA go away!

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- [Cameron] So when people
here, Parkland, Florida,

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they don\'t think that\'s that city

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where the school got shot
up and then everybody cried

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and hide in their houses for a year.

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- [Crowd] NRA go away!
NRA go away! NRA go away!

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- People think Parkland, Florida,

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that\'s the city where
the school got shot up.

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And then, for lack of more
eloquent words, shit went down.

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- [Newscaster] Students are
headed to their state\'s capital

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to rally for gun control.

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- [Newscaster 2] To continue talks

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with state lawmakers and the governor.

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- [Newscaster 3] A thousand protestors

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converged outside the
capital raising the volume-

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- The fact that I was on the
phone with the congresswoman

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12 hours after the shootings is crazy.

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Hey, we\'re gonna be
announcing who\'s on what-

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- This is not a position we ever expected

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ourselves to be in.

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It was just throwing people
at news organizations.

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Emma and Jackie, you go that way.

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And it was like that.

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We were being passed around

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like an STD at Florida State University.

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- [Newscaster] Cameron Kasky.

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- [Newscaster 2] David Hogg.

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- [Newscaster 4] You\'ve
already got tens of thousands

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of followers online.

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- [Emma] You become a part of the media.

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- [Newscaster] Emma Gonzalez.

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- [Newscaster] Brave,
18-year-old, Emma Gonzalez.

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- [Newscaster 4] And she came out

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and she\'s just a total superstar.

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- All these photographers screaming at us.

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Why are you smiling?

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Why are you smiling?

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You can feel them wanting
something from you.

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Like with 60 Minutes,

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I had a five fucking
hour interview with them

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and I was saying really smart stuff

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and all they took was when I was like,

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\"I don\'t know if I
deserve to go to college.\"

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I had so many good arguments.

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We fucked up interacting
with them like that.

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Not understanding where we could say no

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and where we could say yes.

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CNN, they were like, give
us like a bunch of questions

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that you wanna ask.

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- We\'re here tonight to facilitate

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your desire to speak
directly to your leader.

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- What they were actually
doing was picking the questions

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that were the least confrontational.

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And Cameron went off script.

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- Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now

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that you will not accept a
single donation from the NRA?

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(audience cheering)

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- [Emma] That was beyond crazy.

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- As a matter of fact, I bet
we can get people in here

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to give you exactly as much
money as the NRA would have.

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- But it\'s not.
(audience cheering)

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And you\'re right.

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- [Cameron] There was this
whole narrative for awhile

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that this was a generational war.

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- Why do we have to be
the ones to do this?

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- And I was part of that.

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I was going out there and being like,

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yeah, hey, people over the age
of 20 this is all your fault.

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And you guys suck.

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So step back, let us take
control, we got this one.

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You know, before all this,
I got mad at politics

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but the one thing that
always plagued my mind was

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I\'m just an angry freaking kid.

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Well, the fact is, that\'s wrong.

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(audience laughs)

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I wasn\'t gonna vote in the midterms

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cause I thought that they were stupid.

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But that\'s how we allow horrible things

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like our current situation to happen.

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We are smart.

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We are woke.

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And we are look awesome.

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So let\'s create a new generation

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of elected officials that are
smart and woke and awesome.

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(audience cheering)

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- I want to say to all
of you in this room,

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when I came back from Vietnam,
I was totally disillusioned.

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We threw our medals in the capital steps.

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You could not see the marble
of the steps for all the medals

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quadriplegics, quadruple amputees,

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throwing their purple hearts on the steps.

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It did make a difference.

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Please keep it up.

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Do not dismay.

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It will happen for you.

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(audience cheering)

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- [David] The reason why
people fought so hard

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to end the war in Vietnam,

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was because they saw their friends

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coming back in caskets dead.

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(tense ominous music)

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- [Newscaster] The nationwide walkout

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inspired by Parkland, Florida,

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students at about 3,000
schools protested gun violence.

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- [Crowd] What do we want?

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Gun Control!

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When do we want it?

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Now!

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What do we want?

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Gun Control!

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When do we want it?

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Now!

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- Guns have been a part of
my life for a long time.

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And they took my family and friends away.

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It\'s sad that it\'s normal

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for somebody to get shot
in Chicago and be killed.

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It\'s never normal for a
life to be taken away.

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That\'s all we ever
wanted in the first place

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was to be listened to.

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- [Emma] I will meet somebody in Chicago

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and I will have more in common
with them in one conversation

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than it seems that I do with my parents.

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- [Newscaster] From South Florida,

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to the South side of Chicago.

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These two groups of young people

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are vowing to work
together on the gun issue.

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- So Emma, what is the plan?

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You say, you wanna start
the national movement.

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It\'s one thing to talk about it.

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It\'s another thing to
actually make it happen.

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- We\'re going to be doing
a march on Washington

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where we get students all over the country

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are going to be joining us.

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- Everyone in the world knows about this.

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- About March 24th.

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- About March 24th.

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- I never was on a conference
call before all of this.

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And I was like who\'s speaking?

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Like who am I talking to?

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I can\'t recognize voice from voice.

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- [Man] You\'re never not working, are you?

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- No.

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- [Student] We were up until
like midnight every night.

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- The people who were
skeptical, they said,

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Oh, there\'s no way these
kids got that city permit

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and built that stage.

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You\'re completely right.

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I did not build the stage.

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I just had to sit on two
hour conference calls

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discussing those things

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where I wanted to tear all of my hair out.

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What had started in that little bedroom

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was now so much bigger than us.

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It was like the world was a video game

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and we knew the codes.

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- I remember being
backstage and I was like,

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okay, this is interesting.

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Because I\'ve never been
to a march or a rally

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or any of those kinds of things.

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I\'ve never even been in the same like,

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vicinity as 800,000 people before.

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- Ready.

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- Yeah, I think so.

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I found out that I was speaking
basically the day before.

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And then I found out it was gonna be

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Nick\'s 18th birthday that day.

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That\'s literally all I was
thinking about all day.

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I know for a fact, if he survived

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he would have been the
first person on that stage.

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That\'s what I think about is like

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if they were still alive today,
like what would they want?

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♪ You\'re broken down and tired ♪

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♪ Of living life on a merry go round ♪

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♪ And you can\'t find the fighter ♪

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♪ But I see it in you so
we gonna walk it out ♪

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- To the leaders, skeptics, and cynics

00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.423
who told us to sit down and stay silent.

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Welcome to the revolution.

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(crowd cheering)

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♪ We gonna walk it out ♪

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It is a powerful and peaceful
one because it is of, by,

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and for the young people of this country.

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♪ And I\'ll rise up ♪

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♪ I\'ll rise like the day ♪

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- [Newscaster] One of the
biggest youth protests

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since the Vietnam War.

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- [Newscaster 2] A million young people

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just descending upon the nation\'s capital.

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- [Newscaster 3] Nobody\'s
speaking over 18 years old.

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I said I think we\'re seeing
a real movement here,

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not just a moment.

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- [Newscaster 4] There
are 800 events going on

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on every continent except
for an Antarctica, today.

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♪ In spite of the ache I\'ll rise up ♪

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- How many more do we need?

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How many more do we need in the schools?

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How many more do we need in the streets?

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- Please raise your hand

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if you have been affected by gun violence

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to honor the ones who have lost.

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♪ For you ♪

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I raise my hand in honor of
my twin brother, Zaire Kelly.

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- I am here today to
represent Cortland Arrington.

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I am here today to
represent Hadiya Pendleton.

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I am here today to
represent Tiana Thompson

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who at just 16 was shot dead in her home

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here in Washington, DC.

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I am here today to
acknowledge and represent

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the African-American girls whose stories

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don\'t make the front page
of every national newspaper.

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(crowd cheering)

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My friends and I might still be 11

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and we might still be in elementary school

00:20:36.150 --> 00:20:38.269
but we know that we have seven short years

00:20:38.270 --> 00:20:40.298
until we too have the right to vote.

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(crowd cheering)

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♪ We\'ll rise ♪

00:20:46.795 --> 00:20:47.628
♪ I\'ll rise up ♪

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- Chicago has been at the
forefront of gun violence

00:20:50.470 --> 00:20:52.013
for a very long time.

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The day I lost my nephew, I
started to really give up.

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But there\'s this principle
by Dr. King, and it states,

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\"The beloved community is he
framework for the future.\"

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So family, let\'s continue
to fight for what\'s right.

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♪ And will do it a thousand times again ♪

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♪ For you ♪

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♪ For you ♪

00:21:27.738 --> 00:21:31.644
♪ For you ♪

00:21:31.645 --> 00:21:33.812
♪ For you ♪

00:21:35.778 --> 00:21:38.528
(crowd cheering)

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- I remember walking
onto stage from the back.

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My first thought was like, I\'m in danger.

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Hello, beautiful people of America.

00:21:59.998 --> 00:22:02.359
(crowd cheering)

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I was thinking about
what I was talking about.

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And then I was thinking about where I was.

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I seemed like all people were backstage

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and all the famous people we\'re having

00:22:07.450 --> 00:22:08.879
and all the security
detail they\'re having.

00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:10.349
And then meeting Paul
McCartney and thinking,

00:22:10.350 --> 00:22:11.659
like John Lennon was shot in New York.

00:22:11.660 --> 00:22:14.799
And I was thinking about like
5 billion things at one time.

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I am not here for me.

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I am here for you.

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So you don\'t ever have to fear

00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:23.399
of getting shot in your own classroom.

00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:26.189
You don\'t ever have to
worry about going into

00:22:26.190 --> 00:22:28.629
a Holocaust history class
to learn about death

00:22:28.630 --> 00:22:31.363
and then experience it
right before your eyes.

00:22:32.320 --> 00:22:35.453
I was even thinking like JFK
was shot in his convertible.

00:22:37.110 --> 00:22:38.519
Well, I\'m not in a convertible.

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I\'m not moving, I\'m in one area.

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It\'s a huge group of people.

00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:44.410
Anyone can be standing
in that crowd waiting.

00:22:51.032 --> 00:22:53.019
It all came down to
I\'m gonna get shot here

00:22:53.020 --> 00:22:54.170
right now on the stage.

00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:58.389
Never did I think I would
be herded like cattle

00:22:58.390 --> 00:23:01.689
by a shower of bullets that
left me scarred and rattled.

00:23:01.690 --> 00:23:03.059
Forced to huddle among those

00:23:03.060 --> 00:23:04.609
who lost their last living breaths

00:23:04.610 --> 00:23:07.679
on a day that was designated
for loves and laugh.

00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:08.809
The moment we speak up,

00:23:08.810 --> 00:23:11.329
we\'re scolded that we are not old enough.

00:23:11.330 --> 00:23:13.189
It is as if we need permission

00:23:13.190 --> 00:23:15.809
to ask our friends not to die.

00:23:15.810 --> 00:23:17.986
Lawmakers and politicians will scream,

00:23:17.987 --> 00:23:20.279
\"Guns are not the issue.\"

00:23:20.280 --> 00:23:22.017
But can\'t look me in the eye.

00:23:32.634 --> 00:23:35.384
(crowd cheering)

00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:43.343
I blacked out right after I threw up.

00:23:45.543 --> 00:23:48.050
But, it was definitely
like I have to finish this

00:23:49.630 --> 00:23:51.213
because it\'s Nick\'s birthday.

00:23:55.751 --> 00:23:58.501
That\'s what I was thinking about.

00:24:02.150 --> 00:24:04.606
I just threw up on
international television

00:24:04.607 --> 00:24:06.420
and it feels great.

00:24:06.421 --> 00:24:09.171
(crowd cheering)

00:24:10.520 --> 00:24:12.789
Today is March For Our Lives,

00:24:12.790 --> 00:24:15.413
but it is also the
birthday of Nick Dworet.

00:24:16.730 --> 00:24:20.453
Someone that was senselessly
murdered in front of me.

00:24:21.750 --> 00:24:23.489
Today is his birthday.

00:24:23.490 --> 00:24:26.947
I would like to sing
together, \"Happy Birthday\".

00:24:27.930 --> 00:24:30.395
One, two, three.

00:24:30.396 --> 00:24:35.310
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

00:24:35.311 --> 00:24:40.018
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

00:24:40.019 --> 00:24:41.255
♪ Happy birthday dear Nick ♪

00:24:41.256 --> 00:24:43.193
I always thought that
Nick was better than me.

00:24:49.090 --> 00:24:51.469
You would hear his name on
the morning announcements

00:24:51.470 --> 00:24:52.839
during his competitions.

00:24:52.840 --> 00:24:55.789
And we would clap for him in
class anytime he\'d come back.

00:24:55.790 --> 00:24:59.023
And like, it just makes
me wonder like why?

00:25:00.460 --> 00:25:01.360
What\'s the difference?

00:25:01.361 --> 00:25:03.429
Like, why was I just too far?

00:25:03.430 --> 00:25:04.439
Was I too close?

00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:06.090
Was it? I don\'t know.

00:25:10.833 --> 00:25:12.993
So I always wonder,
like, why it wasn\'t me?

00:25:13.950 --> 00:25:17.117
(gentle somber music)

00:25:23.204 --> 00:25:24.905
♪ Hey now you\'re a rock star ♪

00:25:24.906 --> 00:25:25.739
♪ Get the show on ♪

00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:26.821
♪ Get paid ♪

00:25:26.822 --> 00:25:30.195
♪ And all that glitters is gold ♪

00:25:30.196 --> 00:25:35.196
♪ Only shooting stars break the mold ♪

00:25:35.399 --> 00:25:38.149
(Emma whistling)

00:25:55.270 --> 00:25:57.329
- [Emma] After the march, we
were like, my God, it happened.

00:25:57.330 --> 00:25:58.730
We did it, we did the thing.

00:26:00.370 --> 00:26:03.369
I was shocked that it went so well.

00:26:03.370 --> 00:26:06.139
We could have just like
not done anything else.

00:26:06.140 --> 00:26:07.770
I thought there were a lot
of people who were hoping

00:26:07.771 --> 00:26:10.959
that we weren\'t gonna do anything else.

00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:13.503
And then we dove into activism.

00:26:14.820 --> 00:26:16.839
- [Newscaster] Marjory Stoneman
Douglas student, David Hogg,

00:26:16.840 --> 00:26:18.449
leading a group into Publix.

00:26:18.450 --> 00:26:21.209
They\'re there to protest the
store\'s support of NRA member

00:26:21.210 --> 00:26:23.549
gubernatorial candidate, Adam Putnam.

00:26:23.550 --> 00:26:26.623
Publix reportedly gave him more
than half a million dollars.

00:26:27.550 --> 00:26:30.629
- We expect our elected
officials to do the right thing.

00:26:30.630 --> 00:26:32.919
When in reality, we have
to do the right thing

00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:34.559
by pissing off this elected officials

00:26:34.560 --> 00:26:36.039
to get them to take action.

00:26:36.040 --> 00:26:36.885
We call.

00:26:36.886 --> 00:26:38.149
- [Crowd] BS!

00:26:38.150 --> 00:26:40.129
- And just within the last hour,

00:26:40.130 --> 00:26:42.369
Publix announced it is suspending

00:26:42.370 --> 00:26:44.653
any future political contributions.

00:26:45.530 --> 00:26:47.509
- Hey, I\'m walking here.

00:26:47.510 --> 00:26:49.349
Yeah, you\'re cold blooded, so am I.

00:26:49.350 --> 00:26:51.429
That\'s what politics is.

00:26:51.430 --> 00:26:53.369
All these events are just
ways that we can make sure

00:26:53.370 --> 00:26:56.436
people understand that like
we\'re not going anywhere.

00:26:56.437 --> 00:26:57.629
(vehicle honking)

00:26:57.630 --> 00:26:59.063
- [Man] NRA.

00:26:59.064 --> 00:27:00.064
USA.

00:27:00.743 --> 00:27:03.039
God bless America.
(car engine revving)

00:27:03.040 --> 00:27:04.876
- [Newscaster] David
Hogg gets a lot of that

00:27:04.877 --> 00:27:05.999
and a lot worse.

00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:10.239
At least three cars went by
passengers hurled vile insults.

00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:12.489
- I started writing my
college essay today.

00:27:12.490 --> 00:27:14.839
I\'m calling it, \"How to talk
to people that wanna kill you\".

00:27:14.840 --> 00:27:17.589
- Television is the
David Hogg channel now.

00:27:17.590 --> 00:27:19.319
I can\'t turn anything on.

00:27:19.320 --> 00:27:20.419
Listen, you son of a bitch,
what the fuck is your problem.

00:27:20.420 --> 00:27:22.679
- [Newscaster] Tonight, right
wing conspiracy theories

00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:25.148
going viral about David Hogg.

00:27:25.149 --> 00:27:27.154
- [Newscaster 1] Some even
claiming he\'s an actor.

00:27:27.155 --> 00:27:28.539
A pawn for the left wing.

00:27:28.540 --> 00:27:31.369
- David Hogg, is a
product of indoctrination.

00:27:31.370 --> 00:27:32.989
- [Man] He\'s a piece of scum, by the way.

00:27:32.990 --> 00:27:35.049
- [David] It\'s hard to
not respond to people

00:27:35.050 --> 00:27:38.259
that call you a crisis actor
and say like you\'re not real.

00:27:38.260 --> 00:27:40.619
Or like 17 people didn\'t
die at your school.

00:27:40.620 --> 00:27:43.282
- David Hogg basically threw
himself into the snake pit

00:27:43.283 --> 00:27:45.249
that is journalism and politics.

00:27:45.250 --> 00:27:46.669
What else do you think was gonna happen?

00:27:46.670 --> 00:27:48.989
- People said that they were
gonna show up at my house

00:27:48.990 --> 00:27:51.883
and kill my entire
family with their AR 15.

00:27:53.718 --> 00:27:56.051
(gun bangs)

00:28:00.360 --> 00:28:01.519
People said that they\'re gonna show me

00:28:01.520 --> 00:28:02.929
what a real assault weapon looks like

00:28:02.930 --> 00:28:04.966
and what damage it can do.

00:28:04.967 --> 00:28:08.759
(gentle ominous music)

00:28:08.760 --> 00:28:11.759
As a young man, I had never
gotten death threats before,

00:28:11.760 --> 00:28:12.760
as you can imagine.

00:28:15.500 --> 00:28:16.780
I basically can\'t go to some areas

00:28:16.781 --> 00:28:19.419
where there\'s a lot of
people that don\'t like me.

00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:21.659
- [Newscaster] Fox News host,
Laura Ingram, a grown woman

00:28:21.660 --> 00:28:24.489
is trolling Parkland shooting
survivor, David Hogg.

00:28:24.490 --> 00:28:27.199
Who I might remind you
is just 17 years old.

00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.089
Quote, \"David Hogg
rejected by four colleges

00:28:30.090 --> 00:28:32.289
to which he applied and whines about it.\"

00:28:32.290 --> 00:28:33.629
And this isn\'t the first time

00:28:33.630 --> 00:28:36.749
Ingram, has gone for the
Parkland student\'s jugular.

00:28:36.750 --> 00:28:37.819
- It\'s partially my fault, too.

00:28:37.820 --> 00:28:39.656
Because I went on the news so
much at the beginning of this

00:28:39.657 --> 00:28:41.483
and I was pissed off.

00:28:42.910 --> 00:28:45.399
I look back and I cringe
because I never have had

00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:47.759
the level of emotional intelligence

00:28:47.760 --> 00:28:50.553
or empathy or sympathy as Emma has.

00:28:59.510 --> 00:29:02.163
- For me, it\'s more
weird than it is scary.

00:29:05.650 --> 00:29:07.389
I know that it\'s more scary for David

00:29:07.390 --> 00:29:11.169
because he has a lot more
negativity thrown at him.

00:29:11.170 --> 00:29:13.739
If somebody like sees me at the mall

00:29:13.740 --> 00:29:15.186
they\'re most likely coming up to say,

00:29:15.187 --> 00:29:17.139
\"Hey, thanks for what you\'re doing.\"

00:29:17.140 --> 00:29:19.919
They\'re not likely gonna
say, \"Hey, fuck you.\"

00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:21.620
Which has happened to David a lot.

00:29:23.844 --> 00:29:25.929
- [Man] What are you doing?

00:29:25.930 --> 00:29:27.629
You\'re young, you should be crazy.

00:29:27.630 --> 00:29:29.649
You should be unhinged.

00:29:29.650 --> 00:29:32.589
Not in a suit saying, I\'m
here to tell, (beep) you.

00:29:32.590 --> 00:29:36.009
You\'re not interesting because
you went to a high school

00:29:36.010 --> 00:29:37.209
where kids got shots.

00:29:37.210 --> 00:29:39.733
Why does that mean I
have to listen to you?

00:29:39.734 --> 00:29:41.589
How does that make you interesting?

00:29:41.590 --> 00:29:42.590
You didn\'t get shot.

00:29:44.760 --> 00:29:46.999
- [David] Before this, I was
working to try to figure out

00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:48.513
how to grow plants on Mars.

00:29:52.490 --> 00:29:54.113
And Emma wanted to work at NASA.

00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:59.689
Sometimes life just takes
you in a different direction

00:29:59.690 --> 00:30:00.863
and you gotta go.

00:30:12.420 --> 00:30:14.889
- When you think of commencement speakers,

00:30:14.890 --> 00:30:17.859
you think of people who are inspirational.

00:30:17.860 --> 00:30:19.789
People who are eloquent.

00:30:19.790 --> 00:30:22.349
People who have changed the world.

00:30:22.350 --> 00:30:23.789
When you think of high school students,

00:30:23.790 --> 00:30:26.009
you think of people who
are a little immature,

00:30:26.010 --> 00:30:28.913
slightly awkward, still
learning to be an adult.

00:30:30.490 --> 00:30:32.357
Welcome to Opposite Day.

00:30:32.358 --> 00:30:35.156
(audience cheering)

00:30:35.157 --> 00:30:37.740
- [Announcer] Samantha Fuentes.

00:30:42.310 --> 00:30:44.899
- Before all of this, I had a job.

00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:45.949
I had a good boyfriend.

00:30:45.950 --> 00:30:46.840
I had good grades.

00:30:46.841 --> 00:30:47.969
I was gonna work through college.

00:30:47.970 --> 00:30:49.039
I was gonna get my own place.

00:30:49.040 --> 00:30:50.559
I was gonna work in a public school

00:30:50.560 --> 00:30:52.839
for like 40 years and then retire.

00:30:52.840 --> 00:30:54.143
And that was the plan.

00:30:58.967 --> 00:31:02.879
But now, I honestly don\'t feel whole

00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:06.429
if I\'m not doing something
that makes up for the fact that

00:31:06.430 --> 00:31:09.399
I had people murdered in front of me.

00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:11.759
- Accepting for Nicholas Dworet,

00:31:11.760 --> 00:31:13.967
his family friend, Alexandria.

00:31:13.968 --> 00:31:16.968
(audience clapping)

00:31:23.060 --> 00:31:25.803
- The policy side, the political side.

00:31:27.020 --> 00:31:28.653
I don\'t speak that language.

00:31:30.780 --> 00:31:32.409
I use humor to cope.

00:31:32.410 --> 00:31:33.693
I use art to cope.

00:31:36.863 --> 00:31:40.615
♪ Lady running down to the riptide ♪

00:31:40.616 --> 00:31:43.191
♪ Taken away to the dark side ♪

00:31:43.192 --> 00:31:47.064
♪ I wanna be your left hand man ♪

00:31:47.065 --> 00:31:49.689
♪ I love you when you\'re
singing that song ♪

00:31:49.690 --> 00:31:52.963
I knew that I want to make a
difference in some kind of way.

00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:59.037
I don\'t know what that
way was gonna look like.

00:31:59.038 --> 00:32:02.579
(gentle guitar music)

00:32:02.580 --> 00:32:04.803
I just knew what it felt like.

00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:13.839
- [Newscaster] Young people
have become a potent force

00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:15.089
in the gun debate.

00:32:15.090 --> 00:32:18.489
But after three months
of marches and rallies,

00:32:18.490 --> 00:32:21.569
not much has changed
on the national level.

00:32:21.570 --> 00:32:23.469
- [Student] What do you
get s\'mores of an Oreo?

00:32:23.470 --> 00:32:25.669
And he\'s like, I don\'t know.

00:32:25.670 --> 00:32:28.129
- There\'s this website called
the Gun Violence Archive

00:32:28.130 --> 00:32:30.559
where every day they\'ll post
all the people that have died

00:32:30.560 --> 00:32:32.419
as a result of gun violence.

00:32:32.420 --> 00:32:34.519
Every like, hour or two
I\'ll go in there and refresh

00:32:34.520 --> 00:32:36.870
just to see who\'s died
while I\'ve been working.

00:32:39.120 --> 00:32:42.543
This is the map of all the gun
violence incidents this year.

00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:46.640
You see Florida?

00:32:48.430 --> 00:32:50.233
That open space is Everglades.

00:32:51.070 --> 00:32:52.070
It\'s a lot.

00:32:53.990 --> 00:32:56.819
After the march, I was thinking,
this is still happening.

00:32:56.820 --> 00:32:59.119
And we have an election to vote in.

00:32:59.120 --> 00:33:01.179
Shit like what are we gonna do now?

00:33:01.180 --> 00:33:02.299
- [Matt] Gun violence should be the issue.

00:33:02.300 --> 00:33:05.831
But it should be mostly empowering
to the individual voter.

00:33:05.832 --> 00:33:07.679
- [Emma] We were putting
this pressure on to ourselves

00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:11.473
saying, this is a chance
that not everybody is given.

00:33:12.330 --> 00:33:16.009
We have to take this energy
and keep moving with it.

00:33:16.010 --> 00:33:18.079
So what better way than
to go around the country,

00:33:18.080 --> 00:33:19.080
talking to people.

00:33:24.110 --> 00:33:25.999
- [Cameron] So now we\'re
planning for the summer tour

00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:27.519
around the country to connect to people

00:33:27.520 --> 00:33:28.380
all around the country.

00:33:28.381 --> 00:33:30.909
Bringing the march to their backyards.

00:33:30.910 --> 00:33:32.809
We have midterms coming up

00:33:32.810 --> 00:33:35.719
and if you can get the
youth behind something.

00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:37.989
Young people have been the moving force

00:33:37.990 --> 00:33:39.983
behind every movement in this country.

00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:44.489
- [Newscaster] Survivors turned activists

00:33:44.490 --> 00:33:46.779
from Parkland, Florida
hit the road this summer.

00:33:46.780 --> 00:33:50.029
They\'ll make 50 plus stops
and more than 20 states

00:33:50.030 --> 00:33:52.809
and their mission to try to
turn the gun control wave

00:33:52.810 --> 00:33:54.239
they sparked in the spring

00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:57.487
into an energized voting
block for midterm elections.

00:34:07.990 --> 00:34:10.709
- In order to stop violence,

00:34:10.710 --> 00:34:14.859
this can\'t just be a Chicago
thing, a Parkland thing.

00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:18.129
We need everyone to come together.

00:34:18.130 --> 00:34:19.563
Talk to each other. Vote!

00:34:25.230 --> 00:34:27.239
- The biggest reason it\'s extremely hard

00:34:27.240 --> 00:34:29.319
to pass gun legislation in this country

00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:31.673
and it starts with three
letters, it\'s called the NRA.

00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:34.709
This is not about swinging districts

00:34:34.710 --> 00:34:36.489
from red to blue or blue to red.

00:34:36.490 --> 00:34:39.390
It\'s about swinging districts
toward morally just leaders.

00:34:41.109 --> 00:34:43.453
- If you\'re not on the panel,
please go to the back room.

00:34:43.454 --> 00:34:44.672
You\'re on the panel?

00:34:44.673 --> 00:34:47.639
- We currently dealing with
the best problem which is,

00:34:47.640 --> 00:34:49.793
there are way too many people here.

00:34:49.794 --> 00:34:52.095
(audience clapping)

00:34:52.096 --> 00:34:55.263
(lively upbeat music)

00:34:56.315 --> 00:34:57.148
♪ Oh baby ♪

00:34:57.149 --> 00:35:01.744
- [Crowd] Go, Emma, go, Emma.

00:35:01.745 --> 00:35:02.578
- I think I\'m gonna cry.

00:35:02.579 --> 00:35:04.686
I think I\'m gonna cry, now.

00:35:04.687 --> 00:35:06.371
I can\'t believe you\'re hugging me.

00:35:06.372 --> 00:35:07.205
- You\'re incredible.

00:35:07.206 --> 00:35:11.872
Thank you so much for doing
everything that you\'ve done.

00:35:13.228 --> 00:35:15.478
♪ Oh sugar ♪

00:35:17.200 --> 00:35:18.339
- [Cameron] Matt, how
much money does Steve King

00:35:18.340 --> 00:35:19.529
take from the NRA?

00:35:19.530 --> 00:35:21.359
- This year was $11,000.

00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:22.693
- This year was $11,000.

00:35:24.350 --> 00:35:28.639
- I really realize that\'s it\'s
my obligation to tell people

00:35:28.640 --> 00:35:32.569
what me and the young
population care about

00:35:32.570 --> 00:35:35.279
because the young people
aren\'t able to vote yet.

00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.349
We aren\'t going to ban all guns,

00:35:37.350 --> 00:35:39.609
but we do need to ban certain guns

00:35:39.610 --> 00:35:42.939
and we do need to make
more strict policies

00:35:42.940 --> 00:35:45.254
about who can get those guns.

00:35:45.255 --> 00:35:47.199
It\'s their job to protect us

00:35:47.200 --> 00:35:49.399
and they\'re not doing their job correctly.

00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:50.880
- Show me what democracy looks like.

00:35:50.881 --> 00:35:53.881
- This is what democracy looks like.

00:35:58.701 --> 00:36:03.565
♪ You ran from me ♪

00:36:03.566 --> 00:36:06.233
♪ Into the dark ♪

00:36:15.500 --> 00:36:17.549
- I didn\'t follow any of
the Parkland students.

00:36:17.550 --> 00:36:19.350
I didn\'t really follow the movement.

00:36:20.270 --> 00:36:21.509
When I saw all the media coverage

00:36:21.510 --> 00:36:23.789
all those celebrities like
posting and re-posting,

00:36:23.790 --> 00:36:25.929
I was like, well what about
like the kids of color

00:36:25.930 --> 00:36:28.330
who were being shot and
killed every single day.

00:36:31.330 --> 00:36:33.669
You will see like trees that have like

00:36:33.670 --> 00:36:34.759
teddy bears tapped to them

00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:37.359
or just like pictures of like little kids

00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:39.069
and it says like, \"gone
but not forgotten\".

00:36:39.070 --> 00:36:41.109
So like kids who are
taking by like a bullet

00:36:41.110 --> 00:36:44.159
that shouldn\'t have had their
name on it in the first place.

00:36:44.160 --> 00:36:45.609
But like, like Darius Simmons,

00:36:45.610 --> 00:36:48.009
who is like the epitome of like Milwaukee.

00:36:48.010 --> 00:36:49.729
A kid who was taking my gun violence

00:36:49.730 --> 00:36:51.789
and his mother saw the entire thing.

00:36:51.790 --> 00:36:53.269
She saw her son gets shot twice,

00:36:53.270 --> 00:36:55.939
one in the chest like
standing really close

00:36:55.940 --> 00:36:58.029
and then shot when he tried
to run away in his back.

00:36:58.030 --> 00:37:00.139
So he fell face forward.

00:37:00.140 --> 00:37:02.393
Darius, was in sixth grade, so he was 12.

00:37:10.300 --> 00:37:13.256
To be honest with you guys, I
was so done with white people.

00:37:13.257 --> 00:37:16.709
And I know that sounds like so
aggressive and unfair to say.

00:37:16.710 --> 00:37:19.889
But at my school, like
in January of last year

00:37:19.890 --> 00:37:22.689
someone posted white and colored
over our water fountains.

00:37:22.690 --> 00:37:27.690
In January of last year, not
1965, not 1940, like in 2018

00:37:28.170 --> 00:37:31.059
white and colored was plastered
above our water fountains.

00:37:31.060 --> 00:37:33.603
So now I was just so upset with like race.

00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:43.599
I remember we walked in and
like, it was all these people.

00:37:43.600 --> 00:37:45.834
And I was like, I didn\'t
know it was that important

00:37:45.835 --> 00:37:46.919
that people were coming

00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:48.469
to like hear about gun
violence in our community.

00:37:48.470 --> 00:37:49.859
Cause I\'ve been in like town halls

00:37:49.860 --> 00:37:51.984
where like 10 other people would show up.

00:37:51.985 --> 00:37:54.735
(crowd cheering)

00:38:01.537 --> 00:38:03.559
Hi, everybody, my name is Bria.

00:38:03.560 --> 00:38:04.649
I am a 17.

00:38:04.650 --> 00:38:05.483
Hey, what\'s up?

00:38:05.484 --> 00:38:08.479
But I\'m a 17 year old rising senior.

00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:11.059
And I\'m a resident of Milwaukee.

00:38:11.060 --> 00:38:13.309
My neighborhood is so
conditioned that like

00:38:13.310 --> 00:38:15.899
if I don\'t have a gun
that I might be crazy.

00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:19.019
And I remember after the panel,
Jackie Corin came up to me.

00:38:19.020 --> 00:38:20.046
I did not know who she was.

00:38:20.047 --> 00:38:22.559
And she\'s like, \"Hey,
the students really liked

00:38:22.560 --> 00:38:23.739
what you were saying.

00:38:23.740 --> 00:38:25.359
They\'re wondering if you
want to come on tour?\"

00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.189
I remember like running off to
the side, FaceTiming my mama.

00:38:28.190 --> 00:38:29.140
And she was like, what?

00:38:29.141 --> 00:38:32.029
Like, you know, the typical mom.

00:38:32.030 --> 00:38:33.529
Like who are these people?
Blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:38:33.530 --> 00:38:35.430
And trying to get every single detail.

00:38:36.424 --> 00:38:38.139
I think that was like the first moment

00:38:38.140 --> 00:38:41.663
that I actually was like,
okay, like how can I help?

00:38:43.080 --> 00:38:45.580
I went home and I packed
my bag for like three days.

00:38:45.581 --> 00:38:47.581
And I was like, bye mum.

00:38:50.750 --> 00:38:52.063
I got fired from my job.

00:38:54.426 --> 00:38:56.089
And then the clothes I
packed for three days

00:38:56.090 --> 00:38:57.873
had to last for two months.

00:38:59.343 --> 00:39:01.246
♪ Cause what ♪

00:39:01.247 --> 00:39:03.839
♪ There\'s always gonna
be another mountain ♪

00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:06.459
♪ I\'m always gonna wanna make it move ♪

00:39:06.460 --> 00:39:09.156
♪ Always gonna be an uphill battle ♪

00:39:09.157 --> 00:39:11.853
♪ Sometimes I\'m gonna have to lose ♪

00:39:11.854 --> 00:39:14.475
♪ Ain\'t about how fast I get there ♪

00:39:14.476 --> 00:39:19.476
♪ Ain\'t about what\'s
waiting on the other side ♪

00:39:20.060 --> 00:39:23.029
I\'ve never traveled like
eight hours on a bus.

00:39:23.030 --> 00:39:24.203
Like it was crazy.

00:39:26.610 --> 00:39:28.319
But on the bus, you\'re
very very productive.

00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:29.599
We write speeches on the bus,

00:39:29.600 --> 00:39:31.339
make phone calls, all that stuff.

00:39:31.340 --> 00:39:33.519
- This is a list of people

00:39:33.520 --> 00:39:36.139
that I wanted to reach
out to from every stop.

00:39:36.140 --> 00:39:37.513
Things I had to do.

00:39:38.520 --> 00:39:41.799
Adding on stuff here
cause I couldn\'t fit it.

00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:43.369
But I got everything done.

00:39:43.370 --> 00:39:44.370
I had to.

00:39:52.499 --> 00:39:54.329
- [Woman] We have two speakers
from March for Our Lives,

00:39:54.330 --> 00:39:57.236
Bria Smith and Emma Gonzalez.

00:39:57.237 --> 00:40:00.109
(crowd cheering)

00:40:00.110 --> 00:40:01.328
- What\'s happening.

00:40:01.329 --> 00:40:03.659
(crowd cheering)

00:40:03.660 --> 00:40:06.659
- The millions of youth
who reside in inner cities

00:40:06.660 --> 00:40:09.419
grow up with gun violence
as their reality.

00:40:09.420 --> 00:40:12.219
Youth of color had been
fighting the battle

00:40:12.220 --> 00:40:14.479
on the frontline for years.

00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.809
Even here in Texas, black
men are six times more likely

00:40:17.810 --> 00:40:21.209
to be killed in the firearm
homicide than white men.

00:40:21.210 --> 00:40:23.199
Texas people has to be like
the most humbling for me

00:40:23.200 --> 00:40:26.823
because I never saw any bigger
guns that I did in Texas.

00:40:30.560 --> 00:40:35.149
And I was like, I\'m kind
of scared of big guns.

00:40:35.150 --> 00:40:36.899
Cause like Texas people don\'t play.

00:40:36.900 --> 00:40:37.733
They have like AR 15s.

00:40:37.734 --> 00:40:40.093
And like they just go crazy.

00:40:42.910 --> 00:40:44.699
- We had insecurity
following us on the bus

00:40:44.700 --> 00:40:46.699
because there are protests for our panels,

00:40:46.700 --> 00:40:49.729
where there will be like 10
people strapped to the nines

00:40:49.730 --> 00:40:52.909
with their MAGA hats and their
\"Don\'t Tread on Me\" flags

00:40:52.910 --> 00:40:53.910
or \"Come and Take It\" flags.

00:40:53.911 --> 00:40:55.429
We support the second amendment.

00:40:55.430 --> 00:40:57.499
Thank you very much for
coming out here today.

00:40:57.500 --> 00:40:59.279
We\'re all on the same page.

00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:01.939
(crowd cheering)

00:41:01.940 --> 00:41:03.219
- [Newscaster] The Utah Gun Exchange,

00:41:03.220 --> 00:41:05.479
known for its flashy and upfront message

00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:07.449
has been following the
rallies across the country.

00:41:07.450 --> 00:41:09.219
- [Newscaster 2] While the
March for Our Lives Rally

00:41:09.220 --> 00:41:10.799
is going on, this group is going on

00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:12.549
on what they\'re calling a Freedom Tour.

00:41:12.550 --> 00:41:13.799
- [Newscaster 3] At every location,

00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:15.994
Road to Change is faced
with counter protesters.

00:41:15.995 --> 00:41:16.828
- Hey if you think guns are the problem,

00:41:16.829 --> 00:41:18.929
how come you have armed
security guards here,

00:41:18.930 --> 00:41:20.669
like hundreds of police officers?

00:41:20.670 --> 00:41:22.329
Don\'t you think they should disarm?

00:41:22.330 --> 00:41:24.569
- No, not we\'re not anti-gun.

00:41:24.570 --> 00:41:25.403
- Oh, you\'re not?

00:41:25.404 --> 00:41:27.179
- No, we\'re not anti-gun at all.

00:41:27.180 --> 00:41:30.774
We\'re like people who have
proper training to use weapons

00:41:30.775 --> 00:41:33.016
And have proper background
checks and have-

00:41:33.017 --> 00:41:34.659
- So only people who have proper training.

00:41:34.660 --> 00:41:36.359
So that means like a
regular person like me

00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:37.270
can\'t carry a gun?

00:41:37.271 --> 00:41:38.879
- If you wanted a gun, then
you should get the training.

00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:41.340
- I have the training,
I\'m a law-abiding citizen.

00:41:41.341 --> 00:41:43.243
- Well, then you would be
able to go and have a gun.

00:41:43.244 --> 00:41:44.446
We\'re not trying to take
away guns from people.

00:41:44.447 --> 00:41:45.869
- So what laws?

00:41:45.870 --> 00:41:47.529
- Sometimes we would
go out and talk to them

00:41:47.530 --> 00:41:50.036
and sometimes the security
guys would be like,

00:41:50.037 --> 00:41:52.879
\"Uh, it\'s not safe out there.

00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:56.729
We don\'t really like the
attitude of these guys.

00:41:56.730 --> 00:41:58.039
The other day was fine,

00:41:58.040 --> 00:42:01.117
but today I recommend
you do not go out there.\"

00:42:02.986 --> 00:42:05.529
- One of the protesters in El Paso, Texas,

00:42:05.530 --> 00:42:07.778
ended up following us to our hotel.

00:42:07.779 --> 00:42:08.687
- [Student 1] Can they see us from there?

00:42:08.688 --> 00:42:09.859
- [Student 2] I don\'t know.

00:42:09.860 --> 00:42:12.379
They look like they\'re looking up, though.

00:42:12.380 --> 00:42:13.759
- [David] Took their handgun

00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:16.619
and started going down
the hallways of our hotel.

00:42:16.620 --> 00:42:17.580
- [Ryan] I\'ve been spotted.

00:42:17.581 --> 00:42:19.379
They\'re gonna shoot through the window.

00:42:19.380 --> 00:42:21.586
- [David] While live streaming
us on Facebook and saying,

00:42:21.587 --> 00:42:24.779
\"This is where David Hogg
and Emma Gonzalez are.\"

00:42:24.780 --> 00:42:26.119
- [Woman] What\'s going on, honey?

00:42:26.120 --> 00:42:27.527
- There was a death threat.

00:42:30.296 --> 00:42:31.809
- Who sent the death threats?

00:42:31.810 --> 00:42:34.559
- Someone sent it on Twitter
from North Carolina though.

00:42:34.560 --> 00:42:37.956
So like, I\'m just nervous to go on stage.

00:42:37.957 --> 00:42:38.957
- I\'m sorry.

00:42:39.775 --> 00:42:42.775
(audience clapping)

00:42:43.860 --> 00:42:45.783
- If they kill me, they prove my point.

00:42:48.017 --> 00:42:49.316
I think Maxine Waters said it best

00:42:49.317 --> 00:42:50.739
when somebody was like,
\"I wanna kill you.\"

00:42:50.740 --> 00:42:52.540
And she told them to shoot straight.

00:42:53.566 --> 00:42:56.566
(audience clapping)

00:43:00.790 --> 00:43:02.149
(door bell ringing)

00:43:02.150 --> 00:43:03.609
- Hi. Hi.

00:43:03.610 --> 00:43:05.219
- [Kendal] I didn\'t mean
to interrupt you guys.

00:43:05.220 --> 00:43:06.299
- Oh, that\'s okay.

00:43:06.300 --> 00:43:07.442
- [Kendal] But anyway, I
just wanted to bring you guys

00:43:07.443 --> 00:43:09.579
some so weekend food.

00:43:09.580 --> 00:43:11.279
- Oh, you\'re so sweet.

00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:12.113
Thank you so much.

00:43:12.113 --> 00:43:12.946
What is your name?

00:43:12.946 --> 00:43:13.830
- Kendal.

00:43:13.831 --> 00:43:16.189
- Wow, thank you so much.

00:43:16.190 --> 00:43:18.469
- At first I intentionally
kept myself away

00:43:18.470 --> 00:43:20.583
from like all the families.

00:43:22.490 --> 00:43:24.199
Like, I don\'t wanna know
about the grieving parents.

00:43:24.200 --> 00:43:25.033
I don\'t wanna know about the family.

00:43:25.034 --> 00:43:29.980
Cause like that just furthers
the pain and the suffering.

00:43:32.780 --> 00:43:34.230
And then I realized that like

00:43:35.260 --> 00:43:36.993
that\'s not necessarily the case.

00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:44.053
I didn\'t actually know
that Nick had a brother.

00:43:46.750 --> 00:43:51.750
I found out that while I was
in the classroom with Nick,

00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:56.943
Alex was across the hall and
he was grazed by a bullet.

00:43:59.010 --> 00:44:02.329
When I met Alex, like I didn\'t
feel that being around him

00:44:02.330 --> 00:44:03.839
was really triggering.

00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:04.889
I felt the opposite.

00:44:04.890 --> 00:44:07.343
I felt being around him
was very comforting.

00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:10.739
- I hate when people say
like, \"Are you okay?\"

00:44:10.740 --> 00:44:13.660
Like, obviously, I\'m not.

00:44:13.661 --> 00:44:17.149
Like there were so many
people at my house, after.

00:44:17.150 --> 00:44:19.826
So like it was good.

00:44:19.827 --> 00:44:23.089
But like, I guess you
could say I trust issues

00:44:23.090 --> 00:44:24.929
cause it\'s like, you\'re
at school, you know?

00:44:24.930 --> 00:44:26.948
- No, I totally get that.

00:44:26.949 --> 00:44:28.579
- Like the glass.

00:44:28.580 --> 00:44:30.343
Like if there\'s glass
around me, I always look.

00:44:30.344 --> 00:44:31.327
I don\'t know.

00:44:31.328 --> 00:44:33.005
- Trust me, I noticed.

00:44:33.006 --> 00:44:34.676
I noticed when you\'re
sitting in the restaurant.

00:44:34.677 --> 00:44:39.089
I noticed when you were sitting
in the house, I saw you.

00:44:39.090 --> 00:44:40.819
We\'re afraid of the same things.

00:44:40.820 --> 00:44:43.539
We\'re paranoid of people\'s actions.

00:44:43.540 --> 00:44:47.639
It\'s all just tied into like
one with some atrocious ribbon.

00:44:47.640 --> 00:44:49.279
- Do you have the same
thing, or is it like.

00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:51.957
- Yeah, for me it\'s like the smell.

00:44:51.958 --> 00:44:53.736
- Yeah, I remember you were
like, \"Oh, what\'s that smell?\"

00:44:53.737 --> 00:44:56.519
like in the house.
- Like loud noises

00:44:56.520 --> 00:44:58.719
or like looking at everybody.

00:44:58.720 --> 00:45:01.439
There isn\'t a lot of people
who can relate to that feeling.

00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:04.518
For someone, but not knowing
what I was looking for.

00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:06.599
- Yeah.

00:45:06.600 --> 00:45:08.629
- I honestly feel like Alex at times

00:45:08.630 --> 00:45:11.289
is the only person who does.

00:45:11.290 --> 00:45:12.123
- Oh, I do that too.

00:45:12.124 --> 00:45:14.419
Like a teacher like once has like stopped.

00:45:14.420 --> 00:45:17.049
- It reminds me of that if
I needed someone to talk to,

00:45:17.050 --> 00:45:18.238
I could

00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:20.509
Oh, and I destroy my fingernails.

00:45:20.510 --> 00:45:21.343
- Oh, same.

00:45:21.344 --> 00:45:23.689
- The policies you are marching for,

00:45:23.690 --> 00:45:26.087
will not protect any children.

00:45:27.475 --> 00:45:29.137
They will harm children.

00:45:29.138 --> 00:45:31.971
They will take away their liberty.

00:45:33.310 --> 00:45:37.089
The only thing that will
stop a bad guy with a gun

00:45:37.090 --> 00:45:38.823
is a good guy with a gun.

00:45:40.037 --> 00:45:42.120
- [NRA Activist] Go home.

00:45:48.490 --> 00:45:51.479
- [David] The sources of
those peoples\' like anger,

00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:52.619
it\'s pain that they feel

00:45:52.620 --> 00:45:55.070
because they feel
misunderstood and misconstrued.

00:45:57.980 --> 00:45:59.189
The reason they\'re counter protesting

00:45:59.190 --> 00:46:01.319
is cause they don\'t think
we\'re gonna go out there.

00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:04.043
They don\'t think that we care
about what they have to say.

00:46:05.040 --> 00:46:07.040
We care about what everybody has to say.

00:46:10.230 --> 00:46:12.443
People feel like they\'re not heard.

00:46:14.060 --> 00:46:15.939
- As a grandma, myself.

00:46:15.940 --> 00:46:17.799
Every one of my grandkids attend a school

00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:19.609
where they have armed staff.

00:46:19.610 --> 00:46:21.759
I wouldn\'t rather have
my kids go anywhere else

00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:24.346
but schools they go to because
there is somebody there

00:46:24.347 --> 00:46:27.869
that\'s gonna step up so my
grandkids aren\'t cowering down

00:46:27.870 --> 00:46:30.369
behind the desk, in a closet

00:46:30.370 --> 00:46:34.149
hoping and praying to God
that somebody gets there

00:46:34.150 --> 00:46:37.199
and stops the bad guy
before he finds them.

00:46:37.200 --> 00:46:38.799
- Like, we also were praying that too.

00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:39.633
While I was in that classroom-

00:46:39.633 --> 00:46:40.470
- [woman] What about arming
the teachers and the staff

00:46:40.471 --> 00:46:42.017
and putting them through a
rigorous training program?

00:46:42.018 --> 00:46:43.101
- Well, true.

00:46:44.482 --> 00:46:48.049
That\'s having two jobs
basically as a teacher,

00:46:48.050 --> 00:46:50.522
then protecting the kids as
well, so you have to have-

00:46:50.523 --> 00:46:52.779
- What of a teacher who
doesn\'t wanna carry a gun

00:46:52.780 --> 00:46:53.819
and should be required to?

00:46:53.820 --> 00:46:54.820
- True.

00:46:55.855 --> 00:46:57.439
You need volunteered people.

00:46:57.440 --> 00:46:59.739
How about volunteer security guards?

00:46:59.740 --> 00:47:01.379
- It\'s a very tough conversation to have

00:47:01.380 --> 00:47:05.489
because putting a firearm
in the situation in general

00:47:05.490 --> 00:47:06.679
can mean someone else dies.

00:47:06.680 --> 00:47:09.349
And that can be the bad guy
and that can be the good guy

00:47:09.350 --> 00:47:11.029
or just an innocent bystander.

00:47:11.030 --> 00:47:12.839
Any of you that have been in a shooting,

00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:14.769
you can understand that.

00:47:14.770 --> 00:47:17.549
Those 150 hours of training mean nothing

00:47:17.550 --> 00:47:19.029
in that one split second.

00:47:19.030 --> 00:47:20.780
- Because you don\'t rise to the occasion.

00:47:20.781 --> 00:47:23.629
You fall to your most
basic level of training.

00:47:23.630 --> 00:47:24.689
- Exactly.

00:47:24.690 --> 00:47:25.690
You know, and no amount of training

00:47:25.691 --> 00:47:26.779
can train you out of that instinct.

00:47:26.780 --> 00:47:29.119
And that\'s my biggest reluctancy

00:47:29.120 --> 00:47:31.809
to specifically putting
more guns in schools.

00:47:31.810 --> 00:47:33.229
Which I\'m sure you guys can understand.

00:47:33.230 --> 00:47:34.669
- I mean, I don\'t
necessarily agree with it

00:47:34.670 --> 00:47:36.269
but I respect your opinion, that\'s fine.

00:47:36.270 --> 00:47:39.159
- Isn\'t it better to
give people the liberty

00:47:39.160 --> 00:47:41.899
to at least try to defend themselves?

00:47:41.900 --> 00:47:45.469
Isn\'t that more preferable
than taking my defensive tools

00:47:45.470 --> 00:47:46.689
and my liberties away from me?

00:47:46.690 --> 00:47:47.523
- That\'s what I asked them.

00:47:47.524 --> 00:47:48.789
And they said they\'re not anti-gun.

00:47:48.790 --> 00:47:50.779
They\'re just for common sense, whatever.

00:47:50.780 --> 00:47:52.399
They\'re literally not trying
to take guns away from us,

00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:53.499
that\'s what I hear anyways.

00:47:53.500 --> 00:47:56.159
But, you know, you hear a
lot of things from inside.

00:47:56.160 --> 00:47:57.759
- [David] And we hear a
lot from your side too.

00:47:57.760 --> 00:47:58.889
- This is what creates America.

00:47:58.890 --> 00:48:00.249
This is what America is about.

00:48:00.250 --> 00:48:01.083
Coming together.

00:48:01.084 --> 00:48:02.490
Come on, can I shake your hand?

00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:06.080
- I highly appreciate y\'all
coming out of here, man.

00:48:09.243 --> 00:48:11.252
- The way you\'re portrayed
on television, man

00:48:11.253 --> 00:48:13.553
is a lot different from
how you are in person.

00:48:16.420 --> 00:48:19.423
- What fuels movements is not anger.

00:48:20.870 --> 00:48:23.279
We need to have a conversation
about this violence.

00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:24.579
- This is what America is about.

00:48:24.580 --> 00:48:25.829
This is about love.

00:48:25.830 --> 00:48:27.183
Nothing else but love.

00:48:28.153 --> 00:48:29.805
If we\'re divided, we fall.

00:48:29.806 --> 00:48:32.169
If we don\'t come together, we fall.

00:48:32.170 --> 00:48:33.220
Do y\'all want that?

00:48:34.077 --> 00:48:37.387
- [David] And you can say I\'m
being inauthentic about that,

00:48:37.388 --> 00:48:40.683
but that\'s honestly why
we went to Dallas, Texas.

00:48:45.290 --> 00:48:48.009
- Personally, I think that
the kids are being used.

00:48:48.010 --> 00:48:50.969
I mean, they\'re not old enough.

00:48:50.970 --> 00:48:52.949
And it\'s like, yeah, I\'m
sure some of the believe it,

00:48:52.950 --> 00:48:54.719
at least by now.

00:48:54.720 --> 00:48:58.299
But on the other hand, you
don\'t take kids from a school

00:48:58.300 --> 00:49:00.019
and drag them around the country

00:49:00.020 --> 00:49:02.250
all summer long to do this.

00:49:03.756 --> 00:49:04.979
- I think it\'s cool that these kids

00:49:04.980 --> 00:49:06.809
are doing something that they believe in.

00:49:06.810 --> 00:49:08.899
- I mean, I get that part.

00:49:08.900 --> 00:49:10.500
- You don\'t see that very often.

00:49:15.980 --> 00:49:19.803
- I cannot even tell you
what was going on in my head.

00:49:22.020 --> 00:49:25.169
I had no time to think about
anything that had happened.

00:49:25.170 --> 00:49:28.119
I had no time to realize
what the world was

00:49:28.120 --> 00:49:30.120
or what our place in it was any anymore.

00:49:31.740 --> 00:49:33.986
I would sit down at
night and I would think

00:49:33.987 --> 00:49:35.499
can you believe this happened?

00:49:35.500 --> 00:49:37.659
And I\'d feel nothing
and I would go to bed.

00:49:37.660 --> 00:49:40.059
And then I would be walking
somewhere during the day.

00:49:40.060 --> 00:49:41.179
You know, we\'d be at the courthouse

00:49:41.180 --> 00:49:43.579
or we\'d be doing some TV hits somewhere.

00:49:43.580 --> 00:49:45.919
We\'d be meeting with some
of the Sandy Hook family

00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:47.763
or whatever it might be.

00:49:47.764 --> 00:49:50.290
It would just be in a
time when I had to be on

00:49:52.020 --> 00:49:53.720
and I would just burst into tears.

00:49:56.940 --> 00:49:57.817
- [NRA Activist] So, let
me ask you a question.

00:49:57.818 --> 00:50:02.009
You knew where you were
coming that we were carrying.

00:50:02.010 --> 00:50:03.510
Why did you still approach us?

00:50:04.483 --> 00:50:05.509
- I want to talk.

00:50:05.510 --> 00:50:07.509
- [NRA Activist] Good,
thank you, appreciate it.

00:50:07.510 --> 00:50:09.466
- I hope you feel safe
cause you are welcome here.

00:50:09.467 --> 00:50:10.879
And you\'re welcome to stay with us

00:50:10.880 --> 00:50:11.770
as long as you would like.

00:50:11.771 --> 00:50:13.349
- [Cameron] Oh, I see you all carry-

00:50:13.350 --> 00:50:14.752
- [NRA Activist] Are you
from March for Our Lives?

00:50:14.753 --> 00:50:16.282
- Yes, I\'m from March for Our Lives.

00:50:16.283 --> 00:50:17.809
- Are you, are you from Florida?

00:50:17.810 --> 00:50:18.841
- Yes, I\'m from Parkland, Florida.

00:50:18.842 --> 00:50:20.356
- Okay, I think I know who you are.

00:50:20.357 --> 00:50:21.190
- [Cameron] What\'s your name?

00:50:21.190 --> 00:50:22.023
- Tommy.

00:50:22.024 --> 00:50:23.569
- Tommy, my first baseball
game was an Astros game.

00:50:23.570 --> 00:50:25.039
- Okay dude, you know what man,

00:50:25.040 --> 00:50:26.599
if I could just be real with you.

00:50:26.600 --> 00:50:31.329
You guys are being used by politics, man.

00:50:31.330 --> 00:50:32.163
- I\'m sure, yeah.

00:50:32.164 --> 00:50:34.929
- You guys are being
sucked into the machine.

00:50:34.930 --> 00:50:36.929
They put you in all your friends on TV.

00:50:36.930 --> 00:50:38.789
You got on the covers of magazines

00:50:38.790 --> 00:50:40.790
and it made you feel real nice and good.

00:50:42.295 --> 00:50:43.270
But they\'re using you, man.

00:50:43.271 --> 00:50:44.519
- Yeah, well, here\'s
the thing, two things.

00:50:44.520 --> 00:50:46.239
Number one, I haven\'t felt
nice and good in a while.

00:50:46.240 --> 00:50:47.779
I\'m a deeply traumatized individual.

00:50:47.780 --> 00:50:49.339
I\'m just one with a purpose because I know

00:50:49.340 --> 00:50:51.419
that since I\'m lucky enough
to be alive right now,

00:50:51.420 --> 00:50:52.799
I have to do something to make sure

00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:55.099
that when my friend died,
he didn\'t die in vain.

00:50:55.100 --> 00:50:56.569
You can call us puppets all you want.

00:50:56.570 --> 00:50:58.639
But coming out of a school shooting

00:50:58.640 --> 00:51:01.309
and thinking school shootings
could be stopped by something.

00:51:01.310 --> 00:51:02.749
The puzzle piece that you\'re missing

00:51:02.750 --> 00:51:04.569
is that I put me in the media.

00:51:04.570 --> 00:51:06.499
I went out there where
I knew the cameras were

00:51:06.500 --> 00:51:07.876
and I stood in front of them and I said,

00:51:07.877 --> 00:51:09.879
\"You know what, let me tell
you what happened right there.\"

00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:10.949
Because if the worst thing

00:51:10.950 --> 00:51:14.709
that could have possibly
happen happened, right.

00:51:14.710 --> 00:51:17.139
Because if you had shown me February 1st

00:51:17.140 --> 00:51:19.479
right now, I would be
advocating for political policy.

00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:20.789
I would say, \"Great, I\'ve always wanted

00:51:20.790 --> 00:51:22.049
to advocate for political policy.\"

00:51:22.050 --> 00:51:23.829
If you had said, \"Here\'s what
it would take for you guys

00:51:23.830 --> 00:51:24.663
to get your platform.\"

00:51:24.664 --> 00:51:26.709
I would\'ve said, \"Okay, obviously not.\"

00:51:26.710 --> 00:51:29.089
Well, you know what, I\'m
living in obviously not.

00:51:29.090 --> 00:51:31.119
My reality is the obviously not.

00:51:31.120 --> 00:51:32.735
I don\'t know if you\'ve
ever read comic books,

00:51:32.736 --> 00:51:35.409
but if you look at the
alternate universes,

00:51:35.410 --> 00:51:37.159
we\'re in the worst one.

00:51:37.160 --> 00:51:38.823
Look, I could be at summer camp right now.

00:51:38.824 --> 00:51:39.657
- [NRA Activist] Exactly.

00:51:39.658 --> 00:51:41.149
- My initial plan was
to be at summer camp.

00:51:41.150 --> 00:51:42.509
And then I was gonna go for one session

00:51:42.510 --> 00:51:45.309
and work at my comic
book store and be happy

00:51:45.310 --> 00:51:46.929
because that\'s what I
would\'ve wanted to do.

00:51:46.930 --> 00:51:48.393
Thing is people are dead.

00:52:03.085 --> 00:52:08.085
♪ I know what you wanna say ♪

00:52:10.591 --> 00:52:15.591
♪ I think that you\'re all the same ♪

00:52:17.802 --> 00:52:22.802
♪ Constantly being led astray ♪

00:52:24.995 --> 00:52:29.995
♪ You think you know somethin\' you don\'t ♪

00:52:34.749 --> 00:52:38.468
♪ Downtown hot spots ♪

00:52:38.469 --> 00:52:42.039
♪ Halfway up the street ♪

00:52:42.040 --> 00:52:45.829
♪ I used to be free ♪

00:52:45.830 --> 00:52:49.589
♪ I used to be seventeen ♪

00:52:49.590 --> 00:52:53.697
♪ Follow my shadow ♪

00:52:53.698 --> 00:52:57.171
♪ Around your corner ♪

00:52:57.172 --> 00:53:00.634
♪ I used to be seventeen ♪

00:53:00.635 --> 00:53:01.950
♪ Now you\'re just like me ♪

00:53:01.951 --> 00:53:02.784
- [Man] You look great.

00:53:02.785 --> 00:53:03.906
- Thank you.

00:53:03.907 --> 00:53:05.092
Sorry, what was the question again?

00:53:05.093 --> 00:53:06.559
It\'s really hot in here.

00:53:06.560 --> 00:53:08.239
- How are you working
to make your community

00:53:08.240 --> 00:53:10.533
healthier, safer, and more inclusive?

00:53:11.630 --> 00:53:13.629
- I\'m working...

00:53:13.630 --> 00:53:15.152
Do I have to restate that entire phrase?

00:53:15.153 --> 00:53:16.159
- No, you don\'t.

00:53:16.160 --> 00:53:17.160
- Okay.

00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:21.962
What was the question again?

00:53:21.963 --> 00:53:24.039
Good thing this isn\'t live.

00:53:24.040 --> 00:53:25.455
I\'m really bad at live interviews.

00:53:25.456 --> 00:53:30.456
♪ I wish I could show you
how much you\'ve grown ♪

00:53:35.215 --> 00:53:38.828
♪ Downtown hot spots ♪

00:53:38.829 --> 00:53:42.539
♪ I used to be on this street ♪

00:53:42.540 --> 00:53:43.373
- I saw a picture of my friends

00:53:43.374 --> 00:53:45.659
about four days before the shooting

00:53:45.660 --> 00:53:46.903
and we were at the fair.

00:53:49.350 --> 00:53:53.348
And I said, \"What is that?\"

00:53:53.349 --> 00:53:56.113
How was that my life?

00:53:58.740 --> 00:53:59.620
The things I\'m doing now,

00:53:59.621 --> 00:54:01.779
are not unlike what I would have done.

00:54:01.780 --> 00:54:03.509
I loved politics.

00:54:03.510 --> 00:54:06.260
I mean, I was at my first
Obama rally when I was eight.

00:54:09.490 --> 00:54:11.489
Advocating for gun control in DC,

00:54:11.490 --> 00:54:13.390
chances are I might\'ve done it anyway.

00:54:15.220 --> 00:54:17.399
But doing it because you want to

00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:19.039
and doing it because you
feel like you have to

00:54:19.040 --> 00:54:20.540
are two very different things.

00:54:26.760 --> 00:54:30.729
You look back and it\'s
impossible not to just say,

00:54:30.730 --> 00:54:32.680
I would give anything to get that back.

00:54:38.010 --> 00:54:40.215
- [MFOL Activist] This
is Mia Love\'s district.

00:54:40.216 --> 00:54:41.299
- [MFOL Activist 2] She was gonna do like

00:54:41.300 --> 00:54:43.039
increased background
checks and all that stuff.

00:54:43.040 --> 00:54:44.769
But what has she done?

00:54:44.770 --> 00:54:47.989
- Unsurprisingly, she got
$94,000 from the gun lobby.

00:54:47.990 --> 00:54:51.189
- Also it\'s like 6%,
the youth voter turnout.

00:54:51.190 --> 00:54:54.331
If we increase that to like
10%, we can swing this district.

00:54:54.332 --> 00:54:57.082
(crowd cheering)

00:55:05.515 --> 00:55:09.109
- It\'s grown to be personal
at this point for me.

00:55:09.110 --> 00:55:11.599
I walk every single day of my life

00:55:11.600 --> 00:55:14.949
with the physical evidence in my body.

00:55:14.950 --> 00:55:17.209
And my journey is never gonna be the same.

00:55:17.210 --> 00:55:20.790
And I would never wish
that upon anyone else.

00:55:20.791 --> 00:55:24.561
♪ I used to be seventeen ♪

00:55:24.562 --> 00:55:29.276
♪ I used to be seventeen ♪

00:55:29.277 --> 00:55:31.610
♪ Seventeen ♪

00:55:54.498 --> 00:55:55.331
- What\'s up?

00:55:55.332 --> 00:55:59.302
- What\'s up? (chuckles)

00:55:59.303 --> 00:56:02.049
I definitely think that Alex
and I have gotten closer.

00:56:02.050 --> 00:56:03.050
Hop in.

00:56:03.051 --> 00:56:06.139
He kinda reminds me of how
I was when I was younger.

00:56:06.140 --> 00:56:07.890
Like in my mind, he\'s a little kid.

00:56:09.340 --> 00:56:12.199
Before Florida was
colonized into like a state,

00:56:12.200 --> 00:56:15.019
the Spanish actually came here first

00:56:15.020 --> 00:56:17.079
to find the fountain of youth.

00:56:17.080 --> 00:56:19.219
And apparently this
like the myth goes that

00:56:19.220 --> 00:56:21.839
if you drink or bathe in the water

00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:24.069
that you will live forever
and look the same age.

00:56:24.070 --> 00:56:26.469
So, the Spanish came here,
they never found it, obviously.

00:56:26.470 --> 00:56:29.289
Alex wears a hoodie a lot
because he\'s really aware

00:56:29.290 --> 00:56:31.489
of the scar that\'s on the back of his head

00:56:31.490 --> 00:56:34.583
and does pretty much everything
in his power to hide it.

00:56:36.210 --> 00:56:40.379
I relate in such a harsh way

00:56:40.380 --> 00:56:43.869
because like I find myself
doing the exact same thing.

00:56:43.870 --> 00:56:47.719
Frog Leg Festival. (chuckles)

00:56:47.720 --> 00:56:49.009
Let\'s go, guys.

00:56:49.010 --> 00:56:51.439
- This year we\'re gonna go
to the Frog Leg Festival.

00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:54.046
- [Samantha] Got fried frog
legs, got boiled frog legs,

00:56:54.047 --> 00:56:57.013
you got grilled frog legs.

00:56:57.014 --> 00:56:57.905
- [Alex] You got steamed frog legs.

00:56:57.906 --> 00:57:00.619
- [Samantha] You got frog legs
pot pie, you frog leg pizza,

00:57:00.620 --> 00:57:02.289
you got frog leg cupcakes.

00:57:02.290 --> 00:57:03.809
Like, I wish there was a way

00:57:03.810 --> 00:57:05.409
that he could just feel comfortable,

00:57:05.410 --> 00:57:08.039
like not having to wear a
hoodie in 90 degree weather.

00:57:08.040 --> 00:57:09.499
- [Alex] Ice cream frog legs.

00:57:09.500 --> 00:57:11.043
- Ice cream frog legs.

00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:14.483
Yummy, I\'m drooling
just thinking about it.

00:57:17.663 --> 00:57:18.496
There you go.

00:57:18.496 --> 00:57:19.490
- [Alex] Just hold it.

00:57:19.491 --> 00:57:21.349
- The kickstand is not staying.

00:57:21.350 --> 00:57:23.159
- [Alex] Yeah, like just hold it.

00:57:23.160 --> 00:57:23.993
- Okay.

00:57:23.993 --> 00:57:24.826
- [Alex] Just hold it.

00:57:24.826 --> 00:57:25.826
- I am.

00:57:26.820 --> 00:57:28.509
Okay, I\'m gonna lose my mind.

00:57:28.510 --> 00:57:30.669
Okay, tell me I\'m not crazy.

00:57:30.670 --> 00:57:31.670
I\'m holding it.

00:57:34.370 --> 00:57:36.120
Hold it, and it keeps clicking out.

00:57:40.090 --> 00:57:42.240
Or maybe Alex is just
better at everything.

00:57:45.390 --> 00:57:47.319
He probably doesn\'t
even know that I do this

00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:48.913
but I worry about him a lot.

00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:53.529
I won\'t ever be able to understand

00:57:53.530 --> 00:57:55.565
what it feels like to lose a brother.

00:57:55.566 --> 00:57:58.066
But I do know what it feels
like to lose a friend.

00:58:03.003 --> 00:58:04.449
- I have a question, how
old do you have to be

00:58:04.450 --> 00:58:05.809
to be in the midlife crisis?

00:58:05.810 --> 00:58:07.449
- Jackie is getting
Matt, Jamal, and Chris.

00:58:07.450 --> 00:58:09.379
- I think you can have a
midlife crisis at any age.

00:58:09.380 --> 00:58:12.188
- Jackie is getting
Matt, Jamal, and Chris.

00:58:12.189 --> 00:58:13.769
- When I got further into the tour,

00:58:13.770 --> 00:58:15.679
I was like you have two different people

00:58:15.680 --> 00:58:17.019
from like two different perspectives.

00:58:17.020 --> 00:58:18.020
But when you you talk some,

00:58:18.021 --> 00:58:20.431
you have like the same things in common.

00:58:20.432 --> 00:58:23.893
- [Emma] Mama, mama, mama.
- [Bria] Mama, mama, mama.

00:58:27.010 --> 00:58:28.609
It was different communities,

00:58:28.610 --> 00:58:30.419
but we\'re sharing one thing in common.

00:58:30.420 --> 00:58:32.770
It was that trauma and
it was like the sadness.

00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:36.919
- One of the earliest
days that I knew Bria,

00:58:36.920 --> 00:58:40.149
we were talking about
the day of the shooting,

00:58:40.150 --> 00:58:41.759
things that were bothering us,

00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:43.159
things that we couldn\'t say in the media

00:58:43.160 --> 00:58:45.460
because we didn\'t want
to glorify the shooter.

00:58:46.430 --> 00:58:49.919
And Bria had been talking about
her experience in Milwaukee.

00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:52.419
And so, we just spent the
whole evening basically

00:58:52.420 --> 00:58:53.853
discussing our trauma.

00:58:58.220 --> 00:59:01.913
From that day on, like we really
like understood each other.

00:59:04.930 --> 00:59:06.159
- I remember talking about and planning

00:59:06.160 --> 00:59:07.823
for the walkout at my school.

00:59:09.100 --> 00:59:11.339
I got a text message saying
that one of my friends

00:59:11.340 --> 00:59:13.190
had shot and killed himself that day.

00:59:14.230 --> 00:59:17.689
I think when that happened
that\'s when I like shifted.

00:59:17.690 --> 00:59:18.610
That\'s what I was like,

00:59:18.611 --> 00:59:21.699
guns and young people is very important.

00:59:21.700 --> 00:59:23.029
Like we need to talk about this.

00:59:23.030 --> 00:59:24.783
We need to address this as a whole.

00:59:27.100 --> 00:59:30.439
It reminded me of the midst
of like the civil rights era.

00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:32.749
It was black people and white
people and Latino people

00:59:32.750 --> 00:59:34.849
and advocating and
fighting for the same thing

00:59:34.850 --> 00:59:37.619
which is the essential right to life.

00:59:37.620 --> 00:59:40.638
Me and Matt\'s friendship is unlikely.

00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:42.699
The people in power today,

00:59:42.700 --> 00:59:45.079
the entire blood-soaked power structure,

00:59:45.080 --> 00:59:47.853
want nothing more than
for us to be divided.

00:59:48.820 --> 00:59:53.820
- To silo our cause, but our
unity is their greatest fear.

00:59:53.930 --> 00:59:55.889
- Because when a Jewish kid from Maryland

00:59:55.890 --> 00:59:57.729
and a black inner city kid from Milwaukee

00:59:57.730 --> 00:59:59.969
come together and stand in solidarity.

00:59:59.970 --> 01:00:02.449
- When those kids join up
with kids from Chicago,

01:00:02.450 --> 01:00:05.299
Houston, L.A, St. Louis,
Parkland, and Newtown

01:00:05.300 --> 01:00:07.059
to fight violence in all communities.

01:00:07.060 --> 01:00:08.310
- When young people from every

01:00:08.311 --> 01:00:11.679
race, gender, sexuality, and
state, defy the narrative

01:00:11.680 --> 01:00:13.999
that we have to be
isolated from each other

01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:15.629
and afraid of each other.

01:00:15.630 --> 01:00:18.659
- You know that there is
a new and unsettling force

01:00:18.660 --> 01:00:20.377
for change in this country.

01:00:20.378 --> 01:00:23.467
- You know, you know
that we are gonna win.

01:00:23.468 --> 01:00:25.334
You know that we are gonna win.

01:00:25.335 --> 01:00:28.850
You know that we are going to win.

01:00:28.851 --> 01:00:33.851
♪ I was born by the river ♪

01:00:36.351 --> 01:00:41.351
♪ In a little tent ♪

01:00:41.538 --> 01:00:45.563
♪ And just like that river ♪

01:00:45.564 --> 01:00:49.537
♪ I\'ve been running ever since ♪

01:00:49.538 --> 01:00:54.366
♪ It\'s been a long ♪

01:00:54.367 --> 01:00:57.756
♪ A long time coming ♪

01:00:57.757 --> 01:01:02.090
♪ But I know a change is gonna come ♪

01:01:05.077 --> 01:01:06.479
- All or many of us know

01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:08.529
that my father Martin Luther King Jr

01:01:08.530 --> 01:01:10.341
was killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

01:01:10.342 --> 01:01:13.039
But what you probably do not know,

01:01:13.040 --> 01:01:17.039
is that in 1974, just a few years later,

01:01:17.040 --> 01:01:18.719
my grandmother, his mother

01:01:18.720 --> 01:01:21.769
was gunned down in
Ebenezer Baptist Church.

01:01:21.770 --> 01:01:24.779
I\'m excited because I have not recently

01:01:24.780 --> 01:01:29.780
seen a movement like this
since 1963 when 3,000 students,

01:01:30.380 --> 01:01:34.169
high school students in
Birmingham led that movement.

01:01:34.170 --> 01:01:38.279
So momentum is coming and
a change is on the horizon.

01:01:38.280 --> 01:01:43.280
♪ But I know change gonna come ♪

01:01:44.853 --> 01:01:49.853
♪ Oh yes it will ♪

01:01:50.450 --> 01:01:55.450
♪ I go to the school yard ♪

01:01:56.761 --> 01:02:00.185
♪ I go downtown ♪

01:02:00.186 --> 01:02:03.460
♪ But everybody keeps telling me ♪

01:02:03.461 --> 01:02:07.089
♪ Don\'t hang around ♪

01:02:07.090 --> 01:02:09.968
- [Announcer] Come on,
let\'s give them some love.

01:02:09.969 --> 01:02:13.278
March For Our Lives and Road to Change.

01:02:13.279 --> 01:02:16.118
And also we have Lucy McBath.

01:02:16.119 --> 01:02:18.653
Lucy is running for Congress.

01:02:18.654 --> 01:02:19.893
Lucy! Yeah!

01:02:19.894 --> 01:02:21.279
(crowd cheering)

01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:23.369
- [Newscaster] Her teenage
son was shot and killed

01:02:23.370 --> 01:02:25.769
by a man who said he felt threatened.

01:02:25.770 --> 01:02:30.253
Now she is running for Congress
to fight for gun control.

01:02:31.472 --> 01:02:32.871
- [Woman] You need to run.

01:02:32.872 --> 01:02:34.683
- I do like to run.

01:02:34.684 --> 01:02:36.649
- No, like, you need to
like run, you got it.

01:02:36.650 --> 01:02:38.509
- Thank you for everything.

01:02:38.510 --> 01:02:41.550
You were about the best panelist on here.

01:02:43.050 --> 01:02:44.439
And I want you to make sure

01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:46.102
Wisconsin does one thing in November.

01:02:46.103 --> 01:02:47.735
Get rid of Scott Walker, please.

01:02:47.736 --> 01:02:49.256
- And that what\'s I\'m saying.
- Please.

01:02:50.570 --> 01:02:52.649
- [Newscaster] Support for
the NRA is on the decline.

01:02:52.650 --> 01:02:55.489
40% of Americans now
view the NRA negatively.

01:02:55.490 --> 01:02:56.769
- [Newscaster 2] The NRAs approval ratings

01:02:56.770 --> 01:02:58.008
are deeply underwater.

01:02:58.009 --> 01:02:59.879
- [Newscaster 3] The kids
that mobilize themselves

01:02:59.880 --> 01:03:00.870
after Parkland,

01:03:00.871 --> 01:03:03.379
may have actually helped
to change the calculus.

01:03:03.380 --> 01:03:06.579
We have never seen a shift
in the politics of guns

01:03:06.580 --> 01:03:08.570
for almost 20 years.

01:03:08.571 --> 01:03:10.083
That may have changed.

01:03:17.500 --> 01:03:18.629
- Over the course of this summer

01:03:18.630 --> 01:03:22.493
I\'ve had interviews, panels, TV specials,

01:03:23.430 --> 01:03:24.959
little articles that I was writing

01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:26.223
are gonna be featured in.

01:03:27.210 --> 01:03:30.699
And then it hit me like
I\'m here like in Manhattan,

01:03:30.700 --> 01:03:32.083
receiving an award.

01:03:39.020 --> 01:03:41.519
And it\'s like, Morgan
Freeman\'s in one corner.

01:03:41.520 --> 01:03:43.323
Stephen King\'s in the other corner.

01:03:44.740 --> 01:03:46.823
Where do I fit in all of this?

01:03:47.950 --> 01:03:49.339
- [Speaker] Thank you everybody.

01:03:49.340 --> 01:03:53.259
We are so honored to give this award

01:03:53.260 --> 01:03:56.109
to these three terrific people

01:03:56.110 --> 01:03:59.569
who have shown amazing
courage and leadership

01:03:59.570 --> 01:04:01.853
following a terrible tragedy.

01:04:04.663 --> 01:04:07.659
- Good evening, this beautiful
day in New York City,

01:04:07.660 --> 01:04:09.899
the PEN America Literary Gala.

01:04:09.900 --> 01:04:12.699
I am so honored that I
could be a part of it.

01:04:12.700 --> 01:04:14.809
When I was finally up on that stage

01:04:14.810 --> 01:04:18.639
it felt like I was at
the march all over again.

01:04:18.640 --> 01:04:21.129
I\'ve learned a whole lot
of interesting things.

01:04:21.130 --> 01:04:25.689
I could feel the same fear
at the bottom of my gut.

01:04:25.690 --> 01:04:27.593
Education is the very foundation.

01:04:28.510 --> 01:04:29.979
I remember just thinking like,

01:04:29.980 --> 01:04:32.379
great there\'s no windows in this room.

01:04:32.380 --> 01:04:34.809
There\'s no clear exits.

01:04:34.810 --> 01:04:38.019
I started getting more and more fearful

01:04:38.020 --> 01:04:40.799
for what it might do to me.

01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:43.872
I suppose I won this award
because I\'m doing the right thing

01:04:43.873 --> 01:04:47.269
and prioritizing people\'s lives over guns.

01:04:47.270 --> 01:04:49.539
It\'s a simple and straightforward cause.

01:04:49.540 --> 01:04:53.213
But in a world that\'s grown
so chaotic and convoluted.

01:04:58.503 --> 01:04:59.927
- [Audience Member] We love you.

01:04:59.928 --> 01:05:02.928
(audience cheering)

01:05:11.300 --> 01:05:13.009
- When I ran off the stage,

01:05:13.010 --> 01:05:16.233
I was like immensely embarrassed.

01:05:17.820 --> 01:05:20.120
Probably more embarrassed
than the first time.

01:05:21.081 --> 01:05:25.349
I was disappointed, ashamed and
I was absolutely hysterical.

01:05:25.350 --> 01:05:30.350
I was like off stage behind the dividers.

01:05:30.910 --> 01:05:34.479
And my mom came up to me and
I was just asking her like,

01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:36.929
why did I have to do this again?

01:05:36.930 --> 01:05:41.053
Like why again? Why now?

01:05:45.660 --> 01:05:48.849
God, I\'m so stupid, I\'m so stupid.

01:05:48.850 --> 01:05:50.703
Like, Oh my God, fuck this.

01:05:56.730 --> 01:06:01.529
And I remember my mom, she
was like rubbing my back.

01:06:01.530 --> 01:06:03.749
And she was just like, \"It\'s
okay, you\'re just not ready.

01:06:03.750 --> 01:06:04.690
You\'re just not ready.\"

01:06:04.691 --> 01:06:06.629
And I\'m like, \"No, mom, I am ready.

01:06:06.630 --> 01:06:08.217
Like you just don\'t know.\"

01:06:10.880 --> 01:06:12.809
And that\'s like, that\'s
what got me on the stage

01:06:12.810 --> 01:06:15.792
because my mom told me I wasn\'t ready.

01:06:15.793 --> 01:06:18.793
(audience cheering)

01:06:28.169 --> 01:06:31.959
I think sometimes I forget I got shot.

01:06:31.960 --> 01:06:34.659
And I think that like
things were easy sometimes.

01:06:34.660 --> 01:06:36.709
And then I put it on the back burner

01:06:36.710 --> 01:06:38.869
and I pretend that everything\'s
gonna be totally fine.

01:06:38.870 --> 01:06:41.711
And then you throw up on stage
for the second time in a row.

01:06:41.712 --> 01:06:45.502
(audience cheering)

01:06:45.503 --> 01:06:49.359
Thank you so much for believing
in me, but not just me.

01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:51.659
Thank you for believing
that together we can correct

01:06:51.660 --> 01:06:55.009
the moral and fundamental
problems in this country.

01:06:55.010 --> 01:06:59.530
And thank you, PEN, for
giving me this award.

01:06:59.531 --> 01:07:02.531
(audience cheering)

01:07:05.870 --> 01:07:08.759
Not only has this shooting
like almost taken my life,

01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:10.179
it\'s taken my sense of safety.

01:07:10.180 --> 01:07:11.259
It\'s taken my sanity.

01:07:11.260 --> 01:07:13.099
It\'s took my schooling away from me.

01:07:13.100 --> 01:07:15.883
It took my fucking
normal life away from me.

01:07:16.720 --> 01:07:17.853
It took everything.

01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:23.529
You know what, like I\'m fucked up.

01:07:23.530 --> 01:07:24.363
Like I wake up

01:07:24.364 --> 01:07:26.419
and I like think people
are standing out my window

01:07:26.420 --> 01:07:27.669
and they\'re gonna fucking
shoot me in the head.

01:07:27.670 --> 01:07:29.163
Like I\'m fucked up.

01:07:32.810 --> 01:07:35.969
Usually like when I\'m alone,
if I get triggered by something

01:07:35.970 --> 01:07:40.079
and I start thinking about that day

01:07:40.080 --> 01:07:41.880
and I watch things that I shouldn\'t,

01:07:44.340 --> 01:07:47.363
I would watch this video
probably a million times over.

01:07:48.860 --> 01:07:51.773
The dots represented the
shooter and then the victims.

01:07:55.540 --> 01:07:57.259
Watching the breakdown
of where the shooter

01:07:57.260 --> 01:07:58.479
went from class to class.

01:07:58.480 --> 01:08:00.899
Seeing those dots turn different colors

01:08:00.900 --> 01:08:03.533
does not help by any fucking means at all.

01:08:06.820 --> 01:08:08.089
I know those details.

01:08:08.090 --> 01:08:10.690
But they light up like a
Christmas tree in my brain.

01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:15.413
I think about where Nick was sitting.

01:08:17.000 --> 01:08:18.459
What was he wearing?

01:08:18.460 --> 01:08:20.913
Or like what kind of shoes was he wearing?

01:08:23.350 --> 01:08:24.538
And the fact that he was like

01:08:24.539 --> 01:08:27.453
across the hallway from his brother,

01:08:29.700 --> 01:08:32.619
they had the ability to
like walk to each other

01:08:32.620 --> 01:08:34.699
and give each other
like high fives and hugs

01:08:34.700 --> 01:08:35.700
but they couldn\'t.

01:08:38.220 --> 01:08:39.383
That alone haunts me.

01:08:41.620 --> 01:08:44.220
The first thing someone
said was, \"Is this a drill?\"

01:08:47.140 --> 01:08:48.809
I remember screaming like, what the fuck,

01:08:48.810 --> 01:08:49.963
at the top of my lungs.

01:08:53.730 --> 01:08:54.563
I thought I got shot in the head.

01:08:54.564 --> 01:08:56.327
And I thought I was dead for a moment.

01:08:57.950 --> 01:09:00.353
I started to black out
or white out, rather.

01:09:03.250 --> 01:09:05.849
I was like just kind of
in this dream weird state

01:09:05.850 --> 01:09:07.853
of being dead and being alive.

01:09:10.750 --> 01:09:14.789
Like I think about not
like genuine suicide

01:09:14.790 --> 01:09:17.099
but I think about jumping
out of things a lot

01:09:17.100 --> 01:09:21.179
and like having to like
like completely end my life

01:09:21.180 --> 01:09:25.049
like for seconds at a time sometimes.

01:09:25.050 --> 01:09:26.879
But not because I want to die

01:09:26.880 --> 01:09:29.209
but because I think I\'m going to die.

01:09:29.210 --> 01:09:30.260
Does that make sense?

01:09:36.533 --> 01:09:39.616
(car engine revving)

01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:47.319
- This is \"Batman and Philosophy\".

01:09:47.320 --> 01:09:49.129
I bought this actually on the tour.

01:09:49.130 --> 01:09:50.649
We took a night where we were at a mall

01:09:50.650 --> 01:09:53.879
and I just needed something to
read that was not about guns

01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:58.779
or guns or gun control or guns.

01:09:58.780 --> 01:10:02.119
So I picked up this
book and it\'s about like

01:10:02.120 --> 01:10:04.999
applying general philosophical
concepts to Batman.

01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:07.633
And I was like, this seems like not guns.

01:10:11.770 --> 01:10:13.969
I was depressed and I
wasn\'t really realizing it.

01:10:13.970 --> 01:10:15.320
I thought I was just tired.

01:10:16.660 --> 01:10:18.839
We were meeting with a bunch of survivors

01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:20.407
from the shooting in Las Vegas.

01:10:20.408 --> 01:10:23.612
- So I was working the event that night.

01:10:23.613 --> 01:10:26.739
I see people getting shot in front of me

01:10:26.740 --> 01:10:29.569
and the shooter is on top of my head.

01:10:29.570 --> 01:10:30.949
- They told us details about

01:10:30.950 --> 01:10:32.859
what happened to their
leg when it got shot,

01:10:32.860 --> 01:10:36.163
how it felt to run on the
leg with a bullet in it.

01:10:37.240 --> 01:10:39.029
I\'d spent a whole summer hearing stories

01:10:39.030 --> 01:10:40.639
of people\'s pain and misery.

01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:44.223
But for some reason they got me.

01:10:45.960 --> 01:10:46.960
I had to walk out.

01:10:48.468 --> 01:10:49.769
- The biggest thing for all of you to know

01:10:49.770 --> 01:10:51.299
the congressmen in these areas

01:10:51.300 --> 01:10:53.999
like in the 1st District
and in the 3rd District

01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:55.839
they\'re already people that
are pretty good on guns.

01:10:55.840 --> 01:10:57.819
The issue is this guy named...

01:10:57.820 --> 01:10:59.549
What\'s this senator\'s name?

01:10:59.550 --> 01:11:00.410
Dean Heller.

01:11:00.411 --> 01:11:04.039
Dean Heller has taken a shit
load of money from the NRA

01:11:04.040 --> 01:11:05.489
and the attorney general-

01:11:05.490 --> 01:11:09.399
- [MFOL Activist] Adam
Laxalt, L A X A L T.

01:11:09.400 --> 01:11:12.000
- I felt dizzy and I felt
like I was gonna pass out.

01:11:13.290 --> 01:11:14.959
And I said, I can\'t do this anymore.

01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:17.709
- [MFOL Activist] Carl, Caleb,
Nessa, Jonah, Cameron, Jamal.

01:11:17.710 --> 01:11:18.700
- [MFOL Activist 2] Is Cameron here?

01:11:18.701 --> 01:11:20.141
- [MFOL Activist 3] Where\'s Cameron?

01:11:21.750 --> 01:11:23.199
- He took the day off, he was feeling bad.

01:11:23.200 --> 01:11:25.069
What\'s up? Was he on the program?

01:11:25.070 --> 01:11:26.483
- He was on the program.

01:11:27.350 --> 01:11:30.259
- Hold on, is someone taking
Cameron\'s spot or not?

01:11:30.260 --> 01:11:32.609
- [Girl] Yes, Bria.

01:11:32.610 --> 01:11:34.237
- So how many people (indistinct).

01:11:37.042 --> 01:11:38.369
- [Woman] Can I take a picture with you.

01:11:38.370 --> 01:11:39.616
- I\'m sorry, I can\'t
take pictures, tonight.

01:11:39.617 --> 01:11:41.029
- [Woman] All right, thank you.

01:11:41.030 --> 01:11:45.759
- It might be good to
emphasize how unhealthy we were

01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:47.539
so that people don\'t think
that it\'s a good idea

01:11:47.540 --> 01:11:49.973
to do a bus journey of their own.

01:11:52.967 --> 01:11:54.300
I can\'t breathe.

01:11:57.646 --> 01:11:59.719
I can actually take pictures right now.

01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:03.263
I was truly a broken person
at the end of all that.

01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:05.756
Every time somebody was like,

01:12:05.757 --> 01:12:07.569
\"Can I get a picture with you?\"

01:12:07.570 --> 01:12:08.589
I was like, this isn\'t fair

01:12:08.590 --> 01:12:10.219
that I\'m getting all of this attention.

01:12:10.220 --> 01:12:11.393
I don\'t want it.

01:12:13.810 --> 01:12:17.429
Nobody should have this especially
when you\'re traumatized.

01:12:17.430 --> 01:12:19.429
That\'s like the worst thing.

01:12:19.430 --> 01:12:22.196
- You are the future,
like God keep you going.

01:12:22.197 --> 01:12:26.199
- People come up to us and
they\'re like, you\'re so brave.

01:12:26.200 --> 01:12:27.200
And I\'m like,

01:12:28.550 --> 01:12:29.969
am I?

01:12:29.970 --> 01:12:32.109
Am I brave or am I just hardheaded?

01:12:32.110 --> 01:12:33.110
Am I naive?

01:12:36.250 --> 01:12:38.089
I wrote something and I said it

01:12:38.090 --> 01:12:40.083
in a way that everybody related to it.

01:12:42.140 --> 01:12:44.940
That\'s not deserving of
anything more than anybody else.

01:12:47.150 --> 01:12:48.440
For that, one more.

01:12:50.260 --> 01:12:51.393
David does a lot more.

01:12:54.600 --> 01:12:56.350
He tweets like three times an hour.

01:12:57.500 --> 01:12:59.379
I don\'t know how he has
the energy to do that.

01:12:59.380 --> 01:13:01.603
I don\'t know what just
happened with his face.

01:13:05.020 --> 01:13:06.143
He\'s such a good man.

01:13:09.986 --> 01:13:12.733
- I feel like I have a lot
more courage because of Emma.

01:13:14.730 --> 01:13:17.589
I feel like I can like go out
there and do these protests

01:13:17.590 --> 01:13:19.113
and because of all my friends.

01:13:27.010 --> 01:13:29.110
But I think we all have kind of discovered

01:13:30.290 --> 01:13:34.169
this side of ourselves that
kinda grew out of us from this.

01:13:34.170 --> 01:13:35.459
Where like, you can be really happy

01:13:35.460 --> 01:13:39.673
but you can also be
incredibly fucking sad.

01:13:43.510 --> 01:13:46.119
And like the capacity for that sadness,

01:13:46.120 --> 01:13:48.523
that hole of sadness has gotten deeper.

01:13:49.670 --> 01:13:51.259
And how far it can go.

01:13:51.260 --> 01:13:54.253
And honestly, I don\'t know
if there\'s any bottom.

01:13:56.360 --> 01:13:57.729
Right now, we are right across the street

01:13:57.730 --> 01:13:59.009
from Congressman Dana.

01:13:59.010 --> 01:14:01.373
A man that\'s taken over
$42,000 in the NRA.

01:14:02.540 --> 01:14:04.473
We\'re gonna say, Congressman Dana,

01:14:04.474 --> 01:14:08.441
we\'re not going to vote
for you because of $42,000.

01:14:08.442 --> 01:14:10.845
Okay, so say it with me.

01:14:10.846 --> 01:14:12.466
We\'re gonna say it a couple of times.

01:14:12.467 --> 01:14:15.843
- [Crowd] Congressman Dana,
we will not vote for you

01:14:15.844 --> 01:14:17.511
because of f$42,000.

01:14:19.260 --> 01:14:23.002
Congressman Dana, we will not vote for you

01:14:23.003 --> 01:14:24.670
because of f$42,000.

01:14:25.992 --> 01:14:30.061
Congressman Dana, we will not vote for you

01:14:30.062 --> 01:14:31.729
because of f$42,000.

01:14:32.911 --> 01:14:34.034
- Okay, that\'s great.

01:14:34.035 --> 01:14:37.163
(crowd cheers)

01:14:37.164 --> 01:14:41.599
- I stand here today and
I look at these faces

01:14:41.600 --> 01:14:44.629
and I think this is
what we\'re fighting for.

01:14:44.630 --> 01:14:46.219
Those kids, they all had lives.

01:14:46.220 --> 01:14:47.770
They had futures ahead of them.

01:14:48.640 --> 01:14:51.149
And I can tell you, there are
so many students out there

01:14:51.150 --> 01:14:53.469
that are so excited to
vote for the first time

01:14:53.470 --> 01:14:55.059
once they turn 18.

01:14:55.060 --> 01:14:57.083
Who know what they are fighting for.

01:14:58.390 --> 01:15:00.340
We\'re fighting for the freedom to live.

01:15:01.443 --> 01:15:03.643
And we are fighting for
the next generation.

01:15:05.187 --> 01:15:07.433
So they won\'t have to grow up how we did.

01:15:12.938 --> 01:15:16.004
♪ Loving you it runs so deep ♪

01:15:16.005 --> 01:15:19.007
♪ Upon the surface here I sleep ♪

01:15:19.008 --> 01:15:21.721
♪ Walking in darkened light ♪

01:15:21.722 --> 01:15:24.430
♪ Walking all the day and night ♪

01:15:24.431 --> 01:15:27.493
♪ Rivers fall the ocean\'s side ♪

01:15:27.494 --> 01:15:30.242
♪ Fall for you here every time ♪

01:15:30.243 --> 01:15:33.133
♪ Like a bee to the flower a buzz ♪

01:15:33.134 --> 01:15:35.998
♪ Does a flower question love ♪

01:15:35.999 --> 01:15:37.727
- [Bria] I miss my bed.

01:15:37.728 --> 01:15:39.186
- That\'s what I really miss.

01:15:39.187 --> 01:15:41.520
- I miss my bed and my mama.

01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:49.169
- Summer ended and we realized

01:15:49.170 --> 01:15:51.579
it was almost like a game show

01:15:51.580 --> 01:15:54.249
where we put 20 teenagers on a bus

01:15:54.250 --> 01:15:57.719
and see who can go completely
batshit crazy first.

01:15:57.720 --> 01:15:59.834
And I\'d like to announce that I won.

01:15:59.835 --> 01:16:01.649
♪ In the backdrop of the night ♪

01:16:01.650 --> 01:16:04.819
This is the alternative
stuff, I never understood it.

01:16:04.820 --> 01:16:06.689
This is Alan Moore.

01:16:06.690 --> 01:16:08.089
Who\'s is a very popular writer

01:16:08.090 --> 01:16:09.809
because he\'s a very talented one.

01:16:09.810 --> 01:16:12.310
This is a statue that they
actually erected of me.

01:16:14.110 --> 01:16:16.649
And you know, it was on
one of my worst days,

01:16:16.650 --> 01:16:18.269
but that\'s that?

01:16:18.270 --> 01:16:21.829
So Cameron has fallen and we do not know

01:16:21.830 --> 01:16:23.530
if he will be able to get back up.

01:16:24.700 --> 01:16:28.013
And here at Parkland, the world spins on.

01:16:34.160 --> 01:16:35.379
And we had a lot of kids

01:16:35.380 --> 01:16:37.029
that were gonna be going back to school

01:16:37.030 --> 01:16:39.180
where a bunch of people
just got killed on.

01:16:40.990 --> 01:16:42.689
I knew I wasn\'t going back to that school.

01:16:42.690 --> 01:16:44.619
I was gonna finish online.

01:16:44.620 --> 01:16:46.969
But I wish I had gone back.

01:16:46.970 --> 01:16:48.889
Because everybody else did.

01:16:48.890 --> 01:16:52.172
And if they could do it, why
the fuck couldn\'t I, you know.

01:16:52.173 --> 01:16:53.490
♪ Under the star light ♪

01:16:53.491 --> 01:16:55.824
♪ Daze daze ♪

01:16:56.727 --> 01:16:58.429
- You know, after everything
happened, I was like

01:16:58.430 --> 01:17:00.199
do I have the right to go to college?

01:17:00.200 --> 01:17:02.249
Do I deserve to go to college?

01:17:02.250 --> 01:17:04.819
Should I give up the rest
of my life and work on this?

01:17:04.820 --> 01:17:07.589
And everybody was like, \"No,
you idiot, do the school.\"

01:17:07.590 --> 01:17:10.777
And I was like, \"Okay,
okay, I\'ll do school.\"

01:17:15.030 --> 01:17:17.509
- It felt weird to have like
a schedule that was like

01:17:17.510 --> 01:17:19.853
class, class, lunch,
class, and then go home.

01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:23.369
I was flying out like almost every weekend

01:17:23.370 --> 01:17:25.420
and like go to speak at different events.

01:17:26.750 --> 01:17:29.899
- I don\'t know if it\'s
because I\'ve literally grew up

01:17:29.900 --> 01:17:31.699
in a period of 10 months,

01:17:31.700 --> 01:17:34.333
but I\'m definitely a 30 year old now.

01:17:36.180 --> 01:17:39.663
Just my like awareness
changes my entire life.

01:17:45.830 --> 01:17:48.509
- [Newscaster] Breaking
overnight, tragedy in Tallahassee.

01:17:48.510 --> 01:17:51.629
A gunman opening fire at
a yoga studio in Florida,

01:17:51.630 --> 01:17:53.799
killing two and wounding five others.

01:17:53.800 --> 01:17:55.019
- [Newscaster 2] Tragedy strikes

01:17:55.020 --> 01:17:57.499
at the Tree of Life
synagogue, in Pittsburgh.

01:17:57.500 --> 01:17:59.449
Eleven people, dead.

01:17:59.450 --> 01:18:01.159
- [Newscaster 3] The
stakes couldn\'t be higher

01:18:01.160 --> 01:18:02.933
for Tuesdays midterm elections.

01:18:05.270 --> 01:18:06.210
- Go to vote.org.

01:18:06.210 --> 01:18:07.210
You can vote in this election

01:18:07.211 --> 01:18:08.979
if you\'re already
registered, at your home.

01:18:08.980 --> 01:18:10.289
But you can get an absentee ballot

01:18:10.290 --> 01:18:11.899
to be sent to your school.

01:18:11.900 --> 01:18:14.249
There\'s a lot that still has to be done

01:18:14.250 --> 01:18:16.309
because there\'s going to be more shootings

01:18:16.310 --> 01:18:18.399
until these laws are enacted.

01:18:18.400 --> 01:18:19.233
Hey, have you voted awesome?

01:18:19.233 --> 01:18:20.070
- Yeah, I did.
- Awesome!

01:18:20.070 --> 01:18:20.917
- I recognized your face.

01:18:20.918 --> 01:18:22.709
- Here\'s a pin.
- Thank you.

01:18:22.710 --> 01:18:24.329
- It\'s about calling
bullshit on politicians

01:18:24.330 --> 01:18:26.748
that don\'t give a fuck about young people.

01:18:26.749 --> 01:18:27.668
- Have you voted?

01:18:27.669 --> 01:18:29.085
- I\'m voting now.

01:18:32.073 --> 01:18:33.729
- I had to get a different
hotel room from Matt

01:18:33.730 --> 01:18:36.029
because I talk in my sleep, apparently.

01:18:36.030 --> 01:18:38.549
He said that I talk about winning.

01:18:38.550 --> 01:18:40.933
Like I say in my sleep,
like we\'re gonna win.

01:18:43.010 --> 01:18:44.610
And honestly, I\'m not surprised.

01:18:45.470 --> 01:18:46.549
We\'ve turned out.

01:18:46.550 --> 01:18:48.009
We\'ve marched and we\'ve fought

01:18:48.010 --> 01:18:49.579
harder than we\'ve ever fought before

01:18:49.580 --> 01:18:52.129
for our morally just
America that cares about us.

01:18:52.130 --> 01:18:54.056
- [MFOL Activist] Are
you voting by any chance?

01:18:54.057 --> 01:18:54.890
- [Student] Uhh, kind of.

01:18:54.891 --> 01:18:56.356
- You can go vote today.

01:18:56.357 --> 01:19:00.089
- We have a bus outside
taking people to early vote.

01:19:00.090 --> 01:19:02.553
- [David] But are we going
to vote for that America?

01:19:03.590 --> 01:19:06.439
We\'re ramping up, we\'re going
as many districts as we can.

01:19:06.440 --> 01:19:08.629
I was home for a day, wash my clothes,

01:19:08.630 --> 01:19:10.419
turn in my absentee ballot.

01:19:10.420 --> 01:19:11.780
- I voted. Woo.

01:19:12.816 --> 01:19:14.703
This is a momentous time in my life.

01:19:19.680 --> 01:19:22.803
- Don\'t wait for politics to
affect you to become involved.

01:19:25.100 --> 01:19:27.559
Become involved today
by voting for policies

01:19:27.560 --> 01:19:29.368
that won\'t get you killed tomorrow.

01:19:29.369 --> 01:19:33.014
(audience cheering)

01:19:33.015 --> 01:19:35.989
I never looked back and think
I gave too much of myself.

01:19:35.990 --> 01:19:39.429
- Do you anticipate that you\'ll
be up until the polls close?

01:19:39.430 --> 01:19:43.319
- Yeah, at least until
Orange County in California.

01:19:43.320 --> 01:19:46.245
I always look back and think
I should have given more.

01:19:46.246 --> 01:19:48.049
How many people have you
called today, so far?

01:19:48.050 --> 01:19:49.989
- Over 500 in this room alone.

01:19:49.990 --> 01:19:52.193
Should ever tend to be Emma Gonzalez?

01:19:53.140 --> 01:19:55.717
Hi, \"We call BS\".

01:20:01.950 --> 01:20:03.729
- [Newscaster 1] Polls have
closed in half the country.

01:20:03.730 --> 01:20:06.719
This is the 2018 midterm election.

01:20:06.720 --> 01:20:07.620
- [Newscaster] What difference will

01:20:07.621 --> 01:20:09.123
the youth vote make tonight?

01:20:12.040 --> 01:20:13.939
- [David] We fucking won.

01:20:13.940 --> 01:20:15.589
- [Newscaster 3] Young
voters showed up at the polls

01:20:15.590 --> 01:20:17.109
at historic rates this midterm election.

01:20:17.110 --> 01:20:19.769
- [Newscaster 4] Early voting jumped 188%.

01:20:19.770 --> 01:20:21.279
- We did have the highest
youth voter turnouts

01:20:21.280 --> 01:20:22.879
in American history.

01:20:22.880 --> 01:20:25.963
46 NRA backed politicians
lost their elections.

01:20:27.410 --> 01:20:30.039
I can tell you what I
was really happy about.

01:20:30.040 --> 01:20:32.399
Getting Mia Love the fuck out of office.

01:20:32.400 --> 01:20:36.339
Unsurprisingly, she got
$94,000 from the gun lobby.

01:20:36.340 --> 01:20:37.690
Scott Walker was voted out.

01:20:39.245 --> 01:20:40.745
I\'m sure that made Bria happy.

01:20:41.890 --> 01:20:45.379
Lucy McBath, that\'s a
huge seat for the NRA

01:20:45.380 --> 01:20:46.680
that they wanna take back.

01:20:49.670 --> 01:20:53.009
And we flipped Orange
County out of NRA control.

01:20:53.010 --> 01:20:56.338
Congressman Dana, we will not vote for you

01:20:56.339 --> 01:20:57.922
because of $42,000.

01:20:59.710 --> 01:21:01.457
It still doesn\'t feel like enough.

01:21:03.439 --> 01:21:06.606
(gentle guitar music)

01:21:15.396 --> 01:21:20.396
♪ Well it ain\'t no use in
seeing eye to eye babe ♪

01:21:23.233 --> 01:21:27.943
♪ If you don\'t know by now ♪

01:21:27.944 --> 01:21:32.944
♪ And it ain\'t no use
seeing eye to eye babe ♪

01:21:35.394 --> 01:21:38.656
♪ It\'ll never do somehow ♪

01:21:38.657 --> 01:21:43.193
- As the year like
progressed, life got slower.

01:21:45.210 --> 01:21:47.009
Speaking invitations became less

01:21:47.010 --> 01:21:49.110
and my life started to get a little worse.

01:21:50.580 --> 01:21:53.133
I got cheated on by my boyfriend.

01:21:56.122 --> 01:22:00.947
And lost my best friend because
they\'re dating each other.

01:22:05.140 --> 01:22:07.429
God, look at this, I need
to delete this picture.

01:22:07.430 --> 01:22:08.503
Get out of my life.

01:22:10.540 --> 01:22:14.099
Why are there duplicates of
me kissing this fucking idiot?

01:22:14.100 --> 01:22:15.100
Okay, sorry.

01:22:23.980 --> 01:22:27.870
The anniversary, it was just
a reminder of what happened.

01:22:29.123 --> 01:22:33.200
A year later, it just cycles
around and it\'s passed around

01:22:36.499 --> 01:22:38.053
but it just doesn\'t go away.

01:22:42.215 --> 01:22:43.770
♪ Could\'ve done better ♪

01:22:43.771 --> 01:22:46.737
♪ But I don\'t mind ♪

01:22:46.738 --> 01:22:50.988
♪ You just wasted my precious time ♪

01:22:55.773 --> 01:22:57.769
All right, make sure I don\'t hit anything.

01:22:57.770 --> 01:22:59.999
- I already got like four splinters.

01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:01.209
I didn\'t know I was coming here to work.

01:23:01.210 --> 01:23:04.160
- I had no idea thought we were
just gonna come look at it.

01:23:05.610 --> 01:23:10.610
When I have the flashbacks and
it all comes back to my head.

01:23:15.370 --> 01:23:17.733
Sometimes Nick is replaced with Alex.

01:23:26.770 --> 01:23:30.793
Because in some alternate
universe it could have been Alex.

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And it almost was.

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- [Nick] Hi.

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- Hi.

01:23:43.530 --> 01:23:47.463
I was born 2003, February 12th.

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And my brother here can say his birthday.

01:23:52.530 --> 01:23:55.503
- My birthday is same day of the month.

01:23:59.280 --> 01:24:01.023
- March 24th, 2000.

01:24:09.810 --> 01:24:12.977
(gentle solemn music)

01:24:21.910 --> 01:24:25.939
- [Samantha] Grief, fear and
paranoia hardens someone.

01:24:25.940 --> 01:24:27.543
It makes them more aware.

01:24:30.360 --> 01:24:32.779
I just hope it doesn\'t
harden him to a point

01:24:32.780 --> 01:24:34.780
where he won\'t like let other people in.

01:24:38.401 --> 01:24:41.568
(gentle guitar music)

01:24:46.560 --> 01:24:48.909
- I ran on a platform of guns,

01:24:48.910 --> 01:24:51.439
so the temperature is changing.

01:24:51.440 --> 01:24:52.849
You have been the game changers.

01:24:52.850 --> 01:24:55.489
Your whole demographic,
your whole age group.

01:24:55.490 --> 01:24:59.939
And I pray that you will
go to the polls again.

01:24:59.940 --> 01:25:04.113
And I\'m praying that you would
make guns a top priority.

01:25:05.970 --> 01:25:08.029
- The NRA started losing members.

01:25:08.030 --> 01:25:09.725
They lost all their
corporate partnerships.

01:25:09.726 --> 01:25:11.172
- We\'re well aware.

01:25:11.173 --> 01:25:14.059
- They\'re not that powerful
after what you guys did do them.

01:25:14.060 --> 01:25:18.008
It is just a question of
whether you can keep this up.

01:25:18.009 --> 01:25:19.959
- You think you have
enough in the movement

01:25:19.960 --> 01:25:21.364
to keep it really.

01:25:21.365 --> 01:25:23.089
- Oh, yeah, absolutely.

01:25:23.090 --> 01:25:24.999
I mean, we have years and years more

01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:25.960
than these people are gonna live.

01:25:25.961 --> 01:25:28.293
So we have a lot of time on our hands.

01:25:32.270 --> 01:25:35.943
I\'m in no way, like hiding
under a rock or going dormant.

01:25:37.480 --> 01:25:38.783
I\'m not gonna be quiet.

01:25:42.140 --> 01:25:47.140
I\'m majoring in activism
in school, that\'s my thing.

01:25:49.130 --> 01:25:51.493
I\'m just doing things on my own terms.

01:26:05.830 --> 01:26:08.189
- I\'m hopeful that the
world fixes it\'s shit.

01:26:08.190 --> 01:26:09.329
I don\'t believe it will.

01:26:09.330 --> 01:26:13.909
I think we\'re 50 to 75 or 100 years away

01:26:13.910 --> 01:26:17.979
from just the world as we
know it completely changing.

01:26:17.980 --> 01:26:20.569
You gotta be either
optimistically nihilist

01:26:20.570 --> 01:26:22.179
or blissfully ignorant.

01:26:22.180 --> 01:26:23.379
And I\'m going for number two.

01:26:23.380 --> 01:26:25.426
I\'m hoping I could figure
out blissful ignorance

01:26:25.427 --> 01:26:27.069
and live in it.

01:26:27.070 --> 01:26:32.070
But I do look at friends of mine

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who don\'t care about the
things that I care about

01:26:35.340 --> 01:26:36.619
and who just live their lives.

01:26:36.620 --> 01:26:39.339
And I envy them so much.

01:26:39.340 --> 01:26:43.189
Because if I could just not care,

01:26:43.190 --> 01:26:45.659
I would feel so much less pain

01:26:45.660 --> 01:26:48.053
and I would be in a much better place.

01:26:49.957 --> 01:26:51.641
- This is what democracy looks like.

01:26:51.642 --> 01:26:53.328
This is what democracy looks like.

01:26:53.329 --> 01:26:56.162
This is what democracy looks like.

01:26:57.980 --> 01:27:00.439
- I\'m watching so many people persevere.

01:27:00.440 --> 01:27:02.690
And they\'re serving as
a guiding light to me.

01:27:03.850 --> 01:27:06.669
Even those who went through
a lot more than I did

01:27:06.670 --> 01:27:08.120
are waking up in the morning.

01:27:09.160 --> 01:27:11.249
Even though the sun is
shining down on a world

01:27:11.250 --> 01:27:13.099
that has taken so very
much away from them,

01:27:13.100 --> 01:27:17.293
it has shown them no kindness,
has shown them no mercy.

01:27:18.610 --> 01:27:21.019
They\'re gonna get up
and they\'re gonna move.

01:27:21.020 --> 01:27:25.689
And right now, the future looks there.

01:27:25.690 --> 01:27:27.019
I wouldn\'t say it looks bright.

01:27:27.020 --> 01:27:28.269
I wouldn\'t say it looks dark.

01:27:28.270 --> 01:27:31.769
I\'d say it looks like it\'s
there, it\'s in front of us.

01:27:31.770 --> 01:27:34.220
And it\'s up to us to do
whatever we want with it.

01:27:35.472 --> 01:27:38.389
(light airy music)

01:27:54.074 --> 01:27:55.946
- I love being out here.

01:27:55.947 --> 01:27:58.864
(light airy music)

01:28:02.360 --> 01:28:04.707
I very much wish that
I could live this way.

01:28:06.560 --> 01:28:09.110
Nobody except airboat
tourists know where you live.

01:28:10.398 --> 01:28:13.315
(light airy music)

01:28:22.200 --> 01:28:23.043
There\'s a would you rather question

01:28:23.044 --> 01:28:24.993
that I got a long time ago.

01:28:27.500 --> 01:28:30.269
It was would you rather be
alone for the rest of your life,

01:28:30.270 --> 01:28:31.720
never have any human contact.

01:28:34.890 --> 01:28:36.823
Or never have a moment\'s privacy.

01:28:42.410 --> 01:28:45.033
I think about that a lot
nowadays, especially.

01:28:53.589 --> 01:28:54.430
- How did we do the same hair?

01:28:54.431 --> 01:28:56.747
- Do we literally have the same hair?

01:28:56.748 --> 01:28:57.749
- I did it today.

01:28:57.750 --> 01:28:58.965
- I did it today.

01:28:58.966 --> 01:29:00.629
(Samantha and Emma chuckle)

01:29:00.630 --> 01:29:01.879
- We didn\'t plan this.

01:29:01.880 --> 01:29:04.129
- Oh my God, that\'s so cool.

01:29:04.130 --> 01:29:05.020
That\'s so cool.

01:29:05.021 --> 01:29:07.539
- Oh, I\'m crying. (laughs)

01:29:07.540 --> 01:29:09.916
Like, I was dreading it in
the moment that I saw you

01:29:09.917 --> 01:29:12.713
like I just felt like completely better.

01:29:15.010 --> 01:29:17.319
For a long time, it was really hard

01:29:17.320 --> 01:29:19.729
to relate to a lot of people

01:29:19.730 --> 01:29:21.563
because that\'s what trauma does.

01:29:22.680 --> 01:29:26.039
It rips apart the parts
of you that build you up

01:29:26.040 --> 01:29:27.173
and dismantles them.

01:29:30.280 --> 01:29:32.769
But those are the moments
where you have the most clarity

01:29:32.770 --> 01:29:36.693
cause things become a lot
more clear in the dark.

01:29:39.490 --> 01:29:41.210
When you have your life tested

01:29:42.630 --> 01:29:45.489
you pretty much gain like
this fucking mentality

01:29:45.490 --> 01:29:48.083
where like the worst that
can happen is you die.

01:29:54.800 --> 01:29:55.800
- Let\'s do this.

01:30:14.050 --> 01:30:19.050
6 minutes and 20 seconds with
an AR 15, and my friend Carmen

01:30:19.530 --> 01:30:23.143
would never complain to
me about piano practice.

01:30:25.260 --> 01:30:28.823
Aaron Feis would never
call Kira, Miss Sunshine.

01:30:29.910 --> 01:30:33.259
Helen Ramsay would never hang
out after school with Max.

01:30:33.260 --> 01:30:36.853
Gina Montalto would never wave
to her friend Liam at lunch.

01:30:38.290 --> 01:30:40.839
Alex Schachter would
never walk into school

01:30:40.840 --> 01:30:42.403
with his brother Ryan.

01:30:43.410 --> 01:30:45.929
Joaquin Oliver would never play basketball

01:30:45.930 --> 01:30:48.109
with Sam or Dylan.

01:30:48.110 --> 01:30:49.899
Alaina Petty would never.

01:30:49.900 --> 01:30:51.429
Cara Loughran would never.

01:30:51.430 --> 01:30:53.099
Chris Hixson would never.

01:30:53.100 --> 01:30:54.739
Luke Hoyer would never.

01:30:54.740 --> 01:30:57.279
Martin Duque Anguiano would never.

01:30:57.280 --> 01:30:58.449
Peter Wang would never.

01:30:58.450 --> 01:31:00.569
Alyssa Alhadeff would never.

01:31:00.570 --> 01:31:01.759
Jaime Guttenberg would never.

01:31:01.760 --> 01:31:04.063
Meadow Pollack would never.

01:31:08.092 --> 01:31:10.643
- I still think the world\'s gone to shit.

01:31:13.990 --> 01:31:16.639
The ice caps are melting.

01:31:16.640 --> 01:31:19.293
The pyramids are probably
gonna fall over one day.

01:31:23.000 --> 01:31:26.000
But I do think the people in
the world are gonna get better.

01:31:56.213 --> 01:32:01.213
♪ I\'ve been dazed ♪

01:32:03.276 --> 01:32:08.276
♪ My pride is gone ♪

01:32:11.515 --> 01:32:16.515
♪ My mistake ♪

01:32:18.702 --> 01:32:21.785
♪ Guess I\'ll move on ♪

01:32:42.131 --> 01:32:47.131
♪ London days ♪

01:32:49.059 --> 01:32:54.059
♪ It\'s cold outside ♪

01:32:57.507 --> 01:33:00.007
♪ Lost my way ♪

01:33:03.913 --> 01:33:07.290
(crowd cheering)

01:33:07.291 --> 01:33:09.499
- I won\'t be able to vote
for another eight years,

01:33:09.500 --> 01:33:12.099
but I speak on every occasion I can.

01:33:12.100 --> 01:33:16.039
I find candidates who
support the same ideals I do.

01:33:16.040 --> 01:33:19.027
Like gun controls, public education.

01:33:25.260 --> 01:33:26.999
- My name is Natalie Bardon.

01:33:27.000 --> 01:33:29.229
I lost my little brother Daniel,

01:33:29.230 --> 01:33:33.149
five and a half years ago in
the Sandy Hook School shooting.

01:33:33.150 --> 01:33:35.669
The students from Parkland showed me that

01:33:35.670 --> 01:33:38.589
we have to use our voices
to enact this change

01:33:38.590 --> 01:33:40.486
that simply must come.

01:33:40.487 --> 01:33:42.400
♪ Time is a healer ♪

01:33:42.401 --> 01:33:44.649
♪ Love is the answer ♪

01:33:44.650 --> 01:33:45.789
- I was looking at the Trace,

01:33:45.790 --> 01:33:48.619
which is a great gun
violence reporting news site,

01:33:48.620 --> 01:33:49.869
and they just reported that

01:33:49.870 --> 01:33:53.169
FedEx discontinued their
relationship with the NRA.

01:33:53.170 --> 01:33:54.379
Which suggests that gun group

01:33:54.380 --> 01:33:56.169
no longer has the economic clout

01:33:56.170 --> 01:33:57.993
to inspire the corporate world.

01:33:59.300 --> 01:34:00.190
Oh, my God.

01:34:00.191 --> 01:34:01.963
That\'s literally every company.

01:34:06.760 --> 01:34:08.479
- [Newscaster] Calling
the March For Our Lives

01:34:08.480 --> 01:34:10.669
one of the most significant youth led

01:34:10.670 --> 01:34:13.099
mass movements in living memory.

01:34:13.100 --> 01:34:15.339
Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented them

01:34:15.340 --> 01:34:18.243
with the International
Children\'s Peace Prize.

01:34:20.080 --> 01:34:21.419
- [Newscaster 2] Greta
Thunberg, 16 years old,

01:34:21.420 --> 01:34:23.899
demanding more action
on the climate crisis.

01:34:23.900 --> 01:34:26.289
And she got her inspiration
from the school walkouts

01:34:26.290 --> 01:34:27.690
after the Parkland shooting.

01:34:34.338 --> 01:34:35.689
- Welcome to my room.

01:34:35.690 --> 01:34:37.929
I was thinking about a lot of things

01:34:37.930 --> 01:34:40.169
and my brain wasn\'t shutting up.

01:34:40.170 --> 01:34:42.209
So I thought what better way

01:34:42.210 --> 01:34:44.619
than to kind of sort of write it down,

01:34:44.620 --> 01:34:47.609
but also make it physically
available to everybody else

01:34:47.610 --> 01:34:48.639
who walks into my room.

01:34:48.640 --> 01:34:52.529
So I was like, guns are connected
to a bunch of other things

01:34:52.530 --> 01:34:55.409
like health care and rape
culture and consumerism

01:34:55.410 --> 01:34:58.856
and environmentalism and genocide
and fame and celebrities,

01:34:58.857 --> 01:35:01.559
which is connected to the patriarchy,

01:35:01.560 --> 01:35:03.839
which is connected to colonialism.

01:35:03.840 --> 01:35:06.599
Not everything on this wall
has all of the connections.

01:35:06.600 --> 01:35:08.550
But that\'s because I ran out of yarn.

01:35:08.551 --> 01:35:13.551
♪ Help me carry on ♪

01:35:15.782 --> 01:35:19.619
♪ I need peace of mind ♪

01:35:19.620 --> 01:35:22.537
♪ Help me carry on ♪

01:35:49.900 --> 01:35:52.723
Everything\'s connected
to everything, dude.