This film takes us to a country where the Younger Generation is rising up they no longer want to watch their siblings classmates and friends get killed. Newtown Orlando Las Vegas each place has witnessed a mass murder with over 20 dead these tragedies are happening more and more often we were alive 1st. We learn every year in high school or college. We knew about what happened in orlando. On valentines day 2018 there was a massacre at montreux Stoneman Douglas high school in park in florida. Every single time like. Nothing happened people love to clear off your thoughts and prayers our entire nation. With one heavy heart is praying for the victims and their families. For once it was just like enough is enough. For. A Student Initiative organize the biggest protest in the u. S. Since the 1960 s. When Young Americans took to the streets to oppose the vietnam war millions took part in the march from miners in spring 2018 to demonstrate against guns in their country guns that kill their friends and that moment was an absolutely riveting and catalyzing moment i think for the country that is different from anything weve seen before. At the same time the arms industry was upgrading and launching new products on the market it has so theres very many factors that make that specific gun an amazing piece. More than 30000. 00 people dying through gun violence in the u. S. Every year in some areas the situation is completely out of control but rather than abolish guns the government stands behind the arms industry. Now. Teenagers are voicing their rage right outside the headquarters of a powerful Gun Lobby Group the n r a they no longer want a system where politicians sound exactly like the arms industry. And. Im really gonna. Crack. The protest movement has been growing since spring 2018 its calling for tougher gun laws and to finally make access to weapons more difficult can american teenagers succeed where so many others have failed. Parkland is a small wealthy town in florida with. The population of 30000 its mainly the white middle and upper class who live here. Some of our biggest problems in parkland were speeding complaints that the bulk trash wasnt being picked up properly and people leaving their car doors unlocked. It was valentines day and it was a day a lot of analysts actually wasnt really looking forward to this day because all she wanted it was somebody the love her she wanted a valentine. And i can remember then driving alyssa to school and i opened the door to the car and alyssa got out. There was a pretty normal day we were in my class i teach at the american governments then its the irony of all ironies but we were talking about the no thats a Rifle Association you have this Interest Group that is so powerful. I told a listener that i loved her and that would be a last time that i would see alyssa live. There was a murder at school that day among the 3000 students and the teachers loreal her death couldnt reach her door to a new so on her cell phone and began to panic she could only watch as other parents embrace the children in really. I just started screaming on top of my lungs because you know i know life times passing by and i know my daughter she she would have would have told me that she was ok and this is mother could do nothing but stand on signed and imagine what was happening to her daughter. Some of these students and teachers and Staff Members theyve seen what most people dont see unless theyve been at war. There were over 400 people in that building and the ones who got out had to walk over dead bodies. Laurie i had to have stuart are a loser was among the dead. The police found the perpetrator hed hidden himself among the group of 15 students and wandered around outside for over an hour he was a former student 19 year old Nicholas Cruz on february 14th 2018 he shot down 3 teachers and 14 children at montreux Stoneman Douglas high school. My husband i later we went to the funeral home and we spent 2 hours planning the funeral arrangements for lester. And then we got to go see a lesser. And she was shot in the heart and she was shot and top of the head and the hand and the femoral artery and her body was so cold and i was taking my hands i was trying to warm her body because i had her mother in china break our back to life. A few weeks later and parkland more details had come to light about the Killer Police had visited Nicholas Cruz at his home several times before the rampage because neighbors and relatives were concerned about his guns but the police didnt confiscate them they said the 19 year old had acquired them legally including his any ar 15 a semi automatic thats controversially not classed as an Assault Rifle after the incident the police found this video on his cell phone. I am going to be the next. How was a teenager with such clear behavioral problems allowed to have a rifle but only the military is allowed to have in other countries. Several days after the massacre a few parklane students resolve to take home the lax gun laws of the United States of america teenagers says politicians. Have it want to come up to me and tell me its my belief that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have been and many have when nothing is going to be done about it i dont have the after him how much money he received from the National Rifle was. Jamal lemmy was also among the students fighting back the creative head of the movement he designed t. Shirts containing a message for Young Americans. The blue in the u. S. Flag is a q. R. Code scanning it with a cell phone provided information about the midterm elections of all time 2018. Sort target audiences those are not voters of this country and generally think of the nonvoters of this country the huge demographic is 18 to 20 not so young people this country they wanted to motivate these millions of potential young voters to register before the elections so that they could vote for politicians who favored stricter gun laws you cant fold if youre not registered and we know that young people tend to vote in lower numbers than any other age category in 2014 only about 20 percent of the youngest age cohort voted in those midterm elections and one of the key efforts is to try and increase that number by mobilizing students getting them interested in this issue Robert Spitzer is one of the most renowned political scientists in the country teaches at Suny Cortland University in new york state the author of numerous books on guns in the us most students most young people generally favor stronger gun laws to a higher degree than older categories of americans saw the potential for Younger Voters if they enter the system at the register and actually vote to change political outcomes to change electoral outcomes is great. But the general political situation in the spring of 2018 was not conducive to change u. S. President Donald Trumps predisaster barack obama tried to enforce stricter gun laws and failed in congress. The current president is an advocate of the arms industry during the Election Campaign he received 30000000. 00 us dollars from the n. R. A. Thank you. Theres a dedication you have ministration fighting to protect your section on. The 2nd amendment of the Us Constitution gives americans the right to keep and bear arms and millions of americans claim that right to this day. The president town to the 90 if it originated with the n. R. A. Teachers should carry guns to protect our students and shoot in and imagine see. It costs almost nothing i would actually give a bonus to every coach teacher etc because they should go through training as good as they are they should go through a very strong strenuous training i know this proposal was rejected by the main us teachers unions and both of them have been the sefer us in saying that this is the exact wrong answer to School Shootings and they dears that were not going to try and deal with the issue of guns in america guns in the hands of youth securing safe spaces for our children were going to have shoot ups a few days after the tragedy at their school in parkland the teenagers went public together with teachers and surviving relatives they met politicians on a Television Show and dana loesch a spokeswoman for the n. R. A. I want to bring in right now senior Emma Gonzalez she has a question i was thinking very quickly the 17 Year Old High School student became the face of the Youth Movement right dana loesch the shooter at our school obtain weapons that he used on us legally do you believe that it should be harder to obtain these semiautomatic and modify of weapons and the modifications for these weapons to make them fully automatic like stocks i want to answer your question. This individual was nuts and nor the millions of people that i represent as a part of this organization that im here speaking for none of us support people who are crazy who are a danger to themselves who are a danger to others getting their hands on a firearm or the detective bought studies show that just 2 out of 10 of these killings are carried out by a mentally ill person and the facts are that when you look at Mass Shootings in the u. S. High profile Mass Shootings most from 10 weve done with legal guns that people purchased so theyve passed the background check and then secondly theyre not often you know the majority are not committed by people of Mental Health issues the issue is a lot of people get angry. And a lot of matters are can buy angry people who want to take out at that point in time vengeance and they have easy access to firearms to accomplish that it was another student confronted republican senator marco rubio on t. V. Look at Nicholas Cruz but the point is youre here so senator rubio can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the and i was wouldnt tonsil the question for senator had received over 3000000. 00 in contributions from the n. R. A. During the Election Campaign hes part of a system that the parkin students want to fight. Who are on our way to a typical american gun store in Orlando Florida a students dont want to abolish the right to possess arms they just want more rigorous background checks and minimum age of 21. 00 and a ban on Assault Rifles including the eof murder weapon used in pop and dividers in florida all you have to do is fill out a form and prove youre not a criminal. When the store owner sean gets a new rifle and he shows it off to his friends who come by regularly. And we can do that with Kevin Maxwell is an instructor with the n. R. A. B a r 15 rifle is the favorite weapon of Many Americans including those who commit Mass Shootings think. Its no more lethal than any other firearm. Its not the configuration of the gun that makes the firearm lethal on lethal its what the bullet does when it hits you and thats determined by the person firing it not the gun the gun doesnt decide who to shoot. This is the logic of the n. R. A. And its supporters. The system also stifles the politicians who want change like linda stuart a democratic member of the Florida Senate she represents the Greater Orlando area 18 months before the parkland massacre her district experienced a similar tragedy. A gunman in the pulse nightclub killed 49 people and injured 53 some of them severely he was also using an a r 15 semiautomatic rifle. There is no reason for someone to have that high capacity type gun they dont need it for hunting were not for taking guns away from people and allowing them to enjoy a sport that is not a gun that is for sport that is a gun to kill people and they need to be banned. While tens of thousands of people in orlando mourn the victims linda stuart proposed a new norm in the Florida State senate. The bill that i put forward right after the paul shooting was to ban about 70 types of high capacity guns and magazines and it didnt get a hearing the 1st year at all. Before a bill can be voted on in the Florida Senate it must be passed by the Judiciary Committee and according to the law the Senate Judiciary chaired the science which bills are debated in this case it was republican greg stube. Ringback mr stevie didnt want to hear my bills though he was a huge n. R. A. Supporter and back and they backed him heavily and he absolutely felt that guns should be anywhere and everywhere. These images are from the politicians own Election Campaign video. Refused an interview with us. The young parklane demonstrators were hoping their protest the biggest one the u. S. Had seen in decades would mobilize people to replace the politicians standing in the way of change. The march for our lives took place on march the 24th 2018 the students raised several 1000000. 00 through crowd funding and donations from celebrities like Steven Spielberg and George Clooney with help from their Political Science teacher and p. R. Strategists they assembled 800000 demonstrators at the capitol in washington d. C. And that moment was an absolutely riveting and catalyzing moment i think for the country that is different from anything weve seen before. On this march today in more than 700 cities across America Young people in particular protested against gun violence and the political influence of the arms industry. They also demonstrated how skillfully they could use social media through twitter they created a network with millions of other Young Americans with a power source read in our. University to reach anyone you know. I think the was literally in the palm of your hands and at that moment i was just so people were just were feeling this pain and needed to express themselves and the movie was born within a few weeks and the gonzalez alone while i have a 1500000 twitter followers twice as many as the n. R. A. I for 17 year old was the main speaker that day. 6 minutes and about 20 seconds and a little over 6 minutes 17 of our friends were taken from us 15 were injured and everyone absolutely everyone in the Douglas Community was forever altered 6 minutes and 20 seconds with an a r 15 and my friend carmen would never complain to me about piano practice erin feist would never call kiera miss sunshine alyssa ahdaf would never to me gothenburg would never have met okalik whenever. I she remained silent for as long as it took the camera and parkland to and 17 peoples lives. Since the time that i came out here. It has been 6 minutes and 20 seconds the shooter has ceased shooting and will soon abandon his rifle blend in with the students as they escape and walk free for an hour before a rest fight for your lives before its someone elses child. I. It was a chance for emma and her friends to bring the discussion of young peoples lives and their concerns to a National Stage in a way that had never been done before. Of modern results carrying on cemetery i must say your are not mondale colleagues prove i was not. The problem has been at the forefront of gonzales for a very long time i know many. I know many people who have lost loved ones friends and family on the one regular bases due to gone by. The student from chicago addressed an issue that is often forgotten in the media shooting in schools is not even the biggest gun problem in the United States of the almost 35000 People Killed by gun violence in 2017 the majority were victims of suicide followed by homicide only about one percent by victims of shootings like the one in pocket and. Weve traveled to chicago the city with the most gun violence victims in the us on average around 600 people are shot here every year as many as new york and los angeles combined but these things dont happen downtown in the center of this prosperous city. A few kilometers away in the west side of chicago one of the main africanamerican districts its one of the most violent areas of the us. These are common seems many of the 600. 00 gun violence deaths per year in chicago happen here. Innocent bystanders are often in court in the crossfire black teenagers in the us are 15 times more likely to get shot than white teenagers this is what theyre surrounded with growing up. Right lives in the middle of it all. Where my ill give a young lady gets shot in front of my house right across the street and i was the only one i went out for go help her like ive never taken a class on how to deal with gun violence thank gosh i was. I needed when our fire when our one in my ear and started a choir pressure got to go. That was the weekend where chicago with having a lot of shilling and going now i thought all of the hot little wiped down like they werent taking the. Far away from Downtown West side seems like a completely different world theres very little hope and few prospects people say the city isnt doing enough to create opportunities especially for young people. A lot of young people to get a job especia