I disagree with your characterization of the counterprotesters at Saturday’s March for Our Lives as “supporters of the Second Amendment”. Organizers of the National School Walkout are encouraging students to walk out of school for the day.
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During the March for Our Lives, my team sampled 256 people who were randomly selected.
The national organization behind the march said more than 800 marches took place around the world Saturday. They appeared on news channels, in articles in every major newspaper, and sparked conversation all over social media, and in homes across the country.
The march fanned to dozens of US communities, like one in Hartford, but the one on D.C. was one many won’t forget.
“My generation has grown accustomed to being told, ‘You don’t have the power to make change, ‘” he said. “It takes one shooting for it to start a movement”.
The crowd marches down West Olive Street in Scranton.
Gwyneth Lally, 18, of Tallmadge, said she would like to see stricter background checks before a person purchases a gun.
According to many, it was kids like King who were the driving forces behind the movement’s positive energy and momentum.
“It was a great March led by the young kids, and they did a great job”, he said. “It’s not angry, it’s determined”, said Sara Pratt, a native of Washington D.C.
Kids and teenagers who spoke to Temple Update had varying reasons for participating. Hearing powerful speeches from students his age, including survivors of the February 14 Parkland, Florida mass school shooting, in a crowd of hundreds of thousands was “one of the most powerful things I’ve ever seen”, Caleb said afterward.
Rabbi Rosenbaum said he organized the temple’s trip to the Farmingdale rally because “the goal of ritual and prayer is to move people to action”. I wanted to capture not only the raw emotion of the crowd, but the amount of support students were receiving from everyone of all ages.
And 14-year-old Gavis Sisler wants to be part of history.
“I’m not against people having guns”, Goss said. “I believe that a lot of change happens from the ground up; [politicians] need to hear our voice and understand that they’ll only be voted in if they represent us”.
This was the message teens, young children and adults had for lawmakers: “Enough is enough” of gun violence in school.
Gallagher, 15, said she saw a story about the march planned for Washington, D.C., and decided Akron needed one as well. “We know life isn’t equal for everyone, and we know what is right and wrong”. She is the co-author of The Silenced Majority, a New York Times best-seller. “That’s not in my job description”, he said.
“Common sense gun laws work and we will work to get rid of people who do not stand up for the lives of our children”, she said. And we know that we have seven short years until we, too, have the right to vote. The movement is a response to the Parkland, Florida school shooting that took the lives of 17 individuals. “Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job”.
We took our video camera to Saturday’s march in Washington and asked an array of students and parents why they thought it was so important to travel hours to join their fellow citizens in the nation’s capital.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illionois said he will “keep fighting for real gun reform in Congress with the knowledge that today is only a beginning”, the report added. “As a student as well as a future educator, it is inspiring to see so many students using their voice in a society where many of our leaders remain silent”.
