{"id":31496,"date":"2018-02-19T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31496"},"modified":"2018-02-19T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:50:19","slug":"marjory-stoneman-douglas-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/19\/marjory-stoneman-douglas-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Marjory Stoneman Douglas Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a Republican Ammosexual domestic terrorist, who has been photographed in his MAGA hat<\/a>, massacred seventeen of their classmates, are planning a major protest.\u00a0 I fully support their efforts.\u00a0 They are trying to be bipartisan.\u00a0 That is, they don’t want to side with one party or the other.\u00a0 That’s somewhat naive, but they will discover for themselves how partisan the issue is.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Among growing calls for gun control legislation, students who survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School continue to deliver some of the most powerful statements in the wake of the tragedy, and on Sunday a group of them declared that “now is the time for us to stand up” and announced plans for a march in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

The students, Jaclyn Corin, Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, and Alex Wind, made the statements to NBC’s “Meet the Press<\/a>”\u00a0 and CNN’s “State of the Union<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Gonzalez, who on Saturday gave a moving speech<\/a> that went viral, told NBC, “This is our opportunity to talk to President Trump, Gov. Rick Scott, and state [sic] Senator Marco Rubio to make sure that they know we are talking directly to them and all other members of the United States government that are being funded by the NRA to tell them now is the time to get on the right side of this.”<\/p>\n

According to Kasky, “the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas was not because of Stoneman Douglas. It was because people like Nik–Nikolas Cruz were able to buy these weapons.” Speaking to “Meet the Press,” he vowed, “we’re not going to let the 17 bullets we just took take us down. If anything, we’re going to keep running, and we’re going to lead the rest of the nation behind us.”…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s the video with students Emma Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky, David Hogg, Alex Wind and Jaclyn Corin:<\/span><\/p>\n