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This very thing that weigh doing is turning a blind eye and acting as if this is not a human and moral issue, we will do something about that in the fall. it's incumbent upon the american people to understand and know that they have a right to just not allow these kinds of things to continue to happen but threw have the power and they have the tools to do something about it. >> matt, your group was protesting outside paul ryan's office today. what was that about? >> we were demanding the same thing, thousands and thousands and thousands of millions of kids across this country are demanding whi...

But i want to begin with a pair of student activists who spoke at this weekend's march. david hogg and matt post, high school senior and safety advocate from maryland. david, i want to start with you. you know zion. and it's been really interesting to watch you guys from parkland travel and talk to students from other places, other neighborhoods will look very different from the one you came to. what have you been talking about? what has that exchange been like? >> this is not an issue that just latino and any ethnicity. it's unbelieverble i had to live through this one for one day and there i...

To say. >> we know that's the only focus instead of american safety is to dismiss it. >> why was yours so different? >> we stood up and spoke out and because of our white privilege. >> matt, that thing you said there really struck me. in the aftermath of parkland, the conversation got very specific very quickly. how do we stop school shootings and massacres like the one we saw in parkland? we got to put metal detectors. i watched you and david and others make sure to push that conversation out more broadly. what is your thinking there? >> school shootings make up the minority of the shootings....

Realize the inequality in this country and how so many communities have to live through this every day, it's unbelievable. >> i want to play a little bit of what you and both of you had to say. >> we know that's the only focus instead of american safety is to dismiss it. >> why was yours so different? >> we stood up and spoke out and because of our white privilege. >> matt, that thing you said there really struck me. in the aftermath of parkland, the conversation got very specific very quickly. how do we stop school shootings and massacres like the one we saw in parkland? we got to put metal d...

Minority of the shootings. we need to be focused on american safety, not school safety. that's why the bills going through congress that don't mention guns, that's why things like arming teachers or metal detectors is trying to put gum at the bottom of a bucket with an enormous hole. it's not going to solve the real root of the problem, which is a sickness of gun culture in this country. >> david, what is your take away from that day? what was that experience like? >> it was so empowering to witness the birth of a revolution, this was not the end of anything. this is just the start. we have wa...