March 27, 2018 Talking Points 32 Weeks Until Election Day Vote for Our Lives: Listening to the Youth and Making a Movement The gun debate has been transformed and Americans have been inspired by the courage and the conviction of the voices of victims and survivors of gun violence. More than 1 million people joined in the largest youth movement since the Vietnam War. At events. It’s time to listen, learn, and vote for change. • Parkland survivor told the Washington March: “Today is the beginning of spring, and tomorrow is the beginning of democracy. Now is the time to come together, not as Democrats, not as Republicans, but as Americans. Americans of Emma González: We Call BS the same flesh and blood, that care about one “Politicians who sit in their gilded thing and one thing only, and that’s the future of House and Senate seats funded by this country and the children that are going to the NRA telling us nothing could lead it.” have been done to prevent this, we • “To all the politicians out there, if you take call BS. They say tougher guns laws money from the N.R.A., you have chosen death,” do not decrease gun violence. We Alex Wind, another Stoneman Douglas survivor, call BS. They say a good guy with a spoke about the need for legislative change. “If gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We you have not expressed to your constituents a call BS. They say guns are just tools public stance on this issue, you have chosen like knives and are as dangerous as death. If you do not stand with us by saying we cars. We call BS. They say no laws need to pass common sense gun legislation, you could have prevented the hundreds have chosen death. And none of the millions of of senseless tragedies that have people marching in this country today will stop occurred. We call BS.” until they see those against us out of office, because we choose life.” • “To the leaders, skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down and stay silent: Wait your turn,” Parkland survivor said, “welcome to the revolution.” • It's not just mass shootings that are taking our youth, but also the daily toll of gun violence. “For far too long, these black girls and women have been just numbers,” said 17-year old Edna Chavez, in LA. “I am here to say never again for those girls, too.” • “I’m here to speak for those youth who fear they may be shot while going to the gas station, the movies, the bus stop, to church, or even to and from school,” said teenager Trevon Bosley in Chicago. “Everyday shootings are everyday problems.” • At 11 years old, Naomi Wadler should be too young to know gun violence and yet as she told marchers, “I represent the African-American women who are victims of gun violence, who are simply statistics instead of vibrant, beautiful girls full of potential. For far too long, these black girls and women have been just numbers. I am here to say never again for those girls too.”

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