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- Woo.

Okay, okay.

I don't hang out with these kids,

like the way that they hang out with each other, you know?

I don't have that close friend group

that exists in Stoneman Douglas.

I don't know them very well at all, actually,

except for like David,

but that's 'cause I've had a class with him

for an entire year.

It's hard to trust anyone these days,

considering a kid that I barely fucking know,

tried to kill me, so.

Okay.

- Thank you.

- Hello, hi, welcome.

There's a lot of you.

Hello.

- Hi, Sam. - Hey, hello.

- Hi. - Hi.

Before all of this, we were normal ass kids

doing normal ass things.

At first, I didn't want to acknowledge

what had happened to me.

Well, there was this part of me that kept wanting

to say it over and over and over and again.

But not because I wanted it to feel real,

but because I wanted to feel less real,

to a point where it becomes a story opposed to my life.

I remember literally everything that happened to a T.

I remember things that I was saying,

I remember things that I was thinking.

I was thinking about Nick,

and I was thinking about how he was dead.

And I was thinking about how he didn't have a pulse.

I was thinking about, how we were gonna get out,

if he was gonna come back,

was I going to die?

Was I gonna bleed out?

Where did I get shot?

Why am I bleeding from my face?

Why can't I see out my eyes?

And then I was sitting in my hospital bed,

and I saw Emma on TV.

- I know this looks like a lot,

but these are my AP Gov. notes.

The people in the government who were voted into power

are lying to us.

And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice

and are prepared to BS.

- It was a moment of just like confusion,

and then a moment of complete clarity.

- Funded by the NRA telling us

nothing could have ever been done to prevent this.

We call BS!

They say that tougher gun laws

do not decrease gun violence.

We call BS!

- The tears, the runniness in her eyes,

the pinkness in her face.

I could feel her through the screen.

- We call BS! - BS!

- In that moment, it felt like a switch

was turned into her and it was electrifying.

She was on fire.

- That us kids don't know what we're talking about,

that we're too young to understand

how the government works.

We call BS!

- BS!

- If you agree, register to vote,

contact your local congresspeople.

Give them a peace of your mind.

- And remember just like looking up to her

and thinking like, wow, I can do that.

- I'm making meat sauce.

I need mozzarella cheese.

Is there mozzarella cheese in here?

Yeah.

I like to put too many onions in my stuff

because onions are awesome.

And I mean, this is my main source of vegetables.

This is my post-apocalyptic cooking show.

Welcome.

Oh, I burped in my mask.

I'm so fucking dumb.

I just burped in my mask.

I just don't think we're moving fast enough.

And I know exactly what we need to do

in order to fix the problem that we have,

and the people in power are not doing that

because they're owned.

And that's really frustrating.

- Before the shooting at our high school,

on February 14th, 2018,

we were just normal American high school students.

In just six minutes and 20 second, however,

our town became the epicenter of the world

as 17 hearts stopped beating one by one.

Another 17 people were injured

with physical wounds that might heal,

but with emotional wounds that would never.

- That building right there,

that's Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

I don't want to hear anybody else cry like my sister did

when she had lost four friends on the same day.

It physically hurt me to hear her cry like that.

- What do we want? - Now!

- When do we want it? - Change!

- What do we want? - Now!

- When do we want it? - Change!

- When do we want it? - Now!

- Parkland was chaos.

Children in pain, survivors guilt, trauma.

- How many have you lost someone in this?

And how do you feel about that?

You can be mad, you can be sad.

You can feel heartbroken.

- An entire community in disarray,

just as the media shows up in its normal droves.

A collection of students meeting up in a household

that does not have any parents in it.

- It all started in this little town, in this little house

with a group of 20 kids.

Most of whom were not invited, most of whom just showed up.

Everything made so little sense.

- I'm halfway through today.

- I'd sleep for three hours,

and I would say, please let me wake up.

This is all some horrible nightmare.

- The first night I went to Cameron's house,

I drove away with my dad yelling at me to come back inside.

He was, before the shooting, like a Trump supporter

and very against my rhetoric.

He didn't understand that my grieving process

was to do something.

- No guns, that's what we want.

No guns, that's what we want.

No guns, that's what we want.

No guns, that's what we want.

No guns, that's what we want.

- One of the students wounded in the massacre

has just been released from a hospital.

18 year old, Senior Sam Fuentes was shot in both legs

Shrapnel hit her in the face.

She says she saw her classmates on either side of her.

- Two kids were killed and four more wounded

when the shooter opened fire

into that Holocaust classroom.

- Holocaust class that became a target

during the shooting on February, the 14th.

- Nicholas Dworet, a senior, a star swimmer

who had signed a scholarship letter of intent

to swim in college, died in the rampage.

- I was with Nick just moments before he passed away.

Only inches apart.

I met him my freshman year.

And we read The Lord of the Flies together

and read Romeo and Juliet.

I suppose, when someone passes away in front of you,

all you could think is every moment

you've shared with that person,

every detail imprinted in your mind.

Just a lot of anger and guilt.

And it's like, is there something that I can do

to pause that for just a moment?

- That's fucking great.

- Yeah, but it's not even, yeah.

Okay.

- We were so deeply focused on preventing it from happening.

Connecting the trauma to the politics,

and connecting the trauma to the problem,

the systemic problem.

- The people who actually have the opportunity

to make the change are doing,

excuse my language, jack.

- We are creating a badge of shame for any politicians

who are accepting money from the NRA.

- We just learned about the NRA

the week before the shooting in our AP Gov class,

I was like, there's a universe where this doesn't happen

because there are gun laws and stuff in place.

- It's the hundreds of millions of dollars

that the NRA pours into elections,

and they don't care who dies as a result.

We've seen a government shutdown, we've seen tax reform,

but nothing to save our children's lives.

Are you kidding me?

- We know how this is gonna end up.

We know that the politicians is gonna say

thoughts and prayers,

they're gonna say those words

and that's all they're gonna do.

- Thoughts and prayers.

- Thoughts and prayers.

- In our prayers. - In our prayers.

- We don't need politics right now.

- This is not the time to jump to some conclusion.

- All four bills on gun control failed.

- We said, it's always the same shit.

So what if we got to change it this time?

- Go away, NRA.

Go away, NRA.

- So when people hear Parkland, Florida,

they don't think that's that city

where the school got shot up,

and then everybody cried and hid in their houses for a year.

- Go away, NRA.

- People think Parkland, Florida,

that's the city where the school got shot up.

And then for lack of more eloquent words, shit went down.

- Students are headed to their State's Capitol

to rally for gun control.

- State lawmakers and the governor.

- A thousand protestors converged

outside the Capitol, raising the volume.

- The fact that day I was on the phone

with the congresswoman,

12 hours after the shooting is crazy.

We're gonna be in announcing who's on what bus.

- This is not a position we ever expected

ourselves to be in.

It was just throwing people at news organizations.

Emma and Jackie, you go that way.

And then it was like that.

We were being passed around like an STD

at Florida State University.

- Cameron Kasky. - Cameron Kasky.

- Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg.

- David Hogg already got tens of thousands

of followers online.

- And you become a part of the media.

- Emma Gonzalez. - Brave, 18 year old,

Emma Gonzalez. - And she came out

and she is just a total superstar.

- All these photographers screaming at us,

"why aren't you smiling?

Why aren't you smiling?"

You can feel them wanting something from you.

Like with 60 minutes,

I had a five fucking hour interview with them,

and I was saying really smart stuff

and all they took was when I was like,

"I don't know if I deserve to go to college."

I had so many good arguments.

- We fucked up interacting with them like that,

not understanding where we could say no

and where we could say yes.

CNN, they were like, "Okay,

"give us like a bunch of questions that you wanna ask."

- We're here tonight to facilitate your desire

to speak directly to your leaders.

- What they were actually doing was picking the questions

that were the least confrontational.

And Cameron went off script.

- Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now

that you will not accept a single donation

from the NRA in the future?

- That was beyond crazy.

- A matter of fact, I bet we can get people in here

to give you exactly as much money as the NRA would have.

- But it's not,

And you're right. - Can you stand?

- There was this whole narrative for awhile

but this was a generational war.

- Why do we have to be the ones to do this?

- And I was part of that.

I was going out there and being like,

"Yeah, hey people over the age of 20,

"this is all your fault, and you guys suck.

"So step back, let us take control.

"We got this one."

- You know, before all this, I got mad at politics.

But the one thing that always played my mind was,

I'm just an angry freaking kid.

Well, that's wrong.

I wasn't gonna do my midterms

because I thought they were stupid.

But that's how we allow horrible things

like our current situation to happen.

We are smart, we are woke, and we are awesome.

So let's create a new generation of elected officials

that are smart, and woke, and awesome.

- I wanna say to all of you in this room,

when I came back from Vietnam, I was totally disillusioned.

We threw our medals in the Capitol steps.

You could not see the marble of the steps

for all the medals.

Quadriplegics, quadruple amputees,

throwing their purple hearts on the steps.

It did make a difference.

Please keep it up.

Do not dismay.

It will happen for you.

- The reason why people fought so hard

to end the war in Vietnam was because they saw their friends

coming back in caskets, dead.

- The nationwide walkout

inspired by Parkland, Florida,

students at about 3,000 schools protested gun violence.

- What do we want? - Gun control!

- When do we want it? - Now!

- What do we want? - Gun control!

- Guns have been a part of my life for a long time,

and they took my family and friends away.

It's sad that it's normal for somebody to get shot

in Chicago and be killed.

It's never normal for a life to be taken away.

That's all we ever wanted in the first place

was to be listened to.

- I will meet somebody in Chicago,

and I will have more in common with them in one conversation

than it seems that I do with my parents.

- From South Florida

to the South Side of Chicago,

these two groups of young people

are vowing to work together on the gun issue.

- So Emma, what is the plan?

You say you want to spark a national movement.

It's one thing to talk about it,

it's another thing to actually make it happen.

- We're going to be doing a March on Washington,

where we get students all over the country

are going to be joining us.

- Everyone in the world knows about this.

- About March 24th.

- It's about March 24th.

- Welcome to the Loews and Loews Conference Center.

- I never was on a conference call before all of this.

And it was like, who's speaking, like who am I talking to?

I can't recognize voice from voice.

- You're never not working, are you?

- No.

- We were up until midnight every night.

- The people who were skeptical, they said,

"Oh, there's no way these kids got that city permit

"and build that stage."

You're completely right, I did not build the stage.

I just had to sit on two hour conference calls,

discussing those things

where I wanted to tear all of my hair out.

What had started in that little bedroom

was now so much bigger than us.

It was like, the world was a video game

and we knew the codes.

- Yeah.

- I remember being backstage, and I was like,

okay, this is interesting,

because I've never been to a March or a rally

or any of those kinds of things.

I've never even been in the same vicinity

as 800,000 people before.

- Ready?

- Yeah, I think so.

I found out that I was speaking basically the day before,

and then I found out

it was gonna be Nick's 18th birthday that day.

It's literally all what I was thinking about all day.

I know for a fact, if he survived,

he would have been the first person on that stage.

That's what I think about is like,

if they were still alive today, what would they want?

♪ You're broken down and tired ♪

♪ Of living life on a merry-go-round ♪

♪ And you can't find the fighter ♪

♪ But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out ♪

- To the leaders, skeptics, and cynics

who told us to sit down and stay silent,

welcome to the revolution.

♪ We gonna walk it out ♪

♪ Oo, oo, ooo, oo, oo ♪

It is a powerful and peaceful one

because it is of, by, and for the young people

of this country.

♪ And I'll rise up ♪

♪ I'll rise like the day ♪

- One of the biggest youth protests

such the Vietnam era.

- A million young people just descending

upon the Nation's Capitol.

- Nobody's speaking over 18 years old, I said

I think we're seeing a real movement here,

not just a moment.

- There are 800 events going on on every continent,

except for Antarctica today.

♪ In spite of the ache ♪

- How many more do we need?

How many more do we need in schools?

How many more do we need in the streets?

- Please raise your hand,

if you have been affected by gun violence

to honor the ones we have lost.

♪ You, oo, oo ♪

I raise my hand in honor of my twin brother, Zaire Kelly.

- I am here today to represent Cortlin Arrington.

I am here today to represent Hadiya Pendleton.

I am here today to represent Tiayania Thompson,

who at just 16 was shot dead in her home

here in Washington, D.C.

I am here today to acknowledge and represent

the African-American girls whose stories

don't make the front page of every national newspaper.

My friends and I might still be 11,

and we might still be in elementary school,

but we know that we have seven short years

until we too have the right to vote.

♪ I'll rise up ♪

- Chicago has been at the forefront of gun violence

for a very long time.

The day I lost my nephew, I started to really give up.

But there's this principle about Dr. King and it states,

"The beloved community is the framework for the future."

So family, let's continue to fight for what's right.

♪ And we'll do it a thousands times again ♪

♪ For you ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ For you ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ For you ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

- I remember walking onto stage from the back.

My first thought was like, I'm in danger.

Hello, beautiful people of America.

I was thinking about what I was talking about,

and then I was thinking about where I was.

I seemed like all people who were backstage

and all the famous people that are having

and all the security detail they're having,

and then meeting Paul McCartney.

And thinking like John Lennon was shot in New York.

And then I was thinking of like five billion things

at one time.

I am not here for me, I am here for you.

So you don't ever have to fear of getting shot

in your own classroom.

You don't ever have to worry about going into

a Holocaust history class to learn about death

and then experience it right before your eyes.

I was even thinking like JFK was shot in his convertible.

Oh my God.

Well, I'm not in a convertible.

I'm not moving, I'm in one area.

It's a huge group of people.

Anyone can be standing in that crowd waiting.

It all came down to, I'm gonna get shot here,

right now on the stage.

Never did I think I would be herded like cattle

by a shower of bullets that left me scarred and rattled.

Forced to huddle among those

who lost their last living breaths on a day

that was designated for loves and laugh.

The moment we speak up, we're scolded

that we are not old enough.

It is as if we need permission

to ask our friends not to die.

Lawmakers and politicians will scream guns are not the issue

but they can't look me in the eye.

I blacked out right after I threw up.

But it was definitely like I have to finish this,

because it's Nick's birthday.

That's what I was thinking about.

I just threw up on international television

and it feels great!

Today it's March For Our Lives,

but it is also the birthday of Nick Dworet.

Someone that was senselessly murdered in front of me.

Today is his birthday.

I would like to sing all together, happy birthday.

One, two, three.

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

I always thought that Nick was better than me.

You would hear his name on the morning announcements

during his competitions,

and we would clap for him in class anytime he'd come back,

and it just makes me wonder, why?

What's the difference?

Why, was I just too far?

Was I too close?

Was I,

was it, I don't know.

It's like, I always wonder why it wasn't me.

♪ Hey now, you're a rockstar ♪

♪ Get the show on, get paid ♪

♪ All that glitters is gold ♪

♪ Only shooting stars break the mold ♪

- This will stop gun violence.

- Yeah.

- Large. - Extra large.

- After the march, we were like,

oh my God, it happened.

We did it, we did the thing.

I was shocked that it went so well.

We could have just not done anything else.

I bet there were a lot of people who were hoping

that we weren't going to do anything else.

And then we dove into activism.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas student, David Hogg,

leading a group into Publix.

They're there protest the stores support of NRA member,

and gubernatorial candidate, Adam Putnam.

Publix reportedly gave him

more than a half a million dollars.

- We expect our elected officials to do the right thing.

When in reality, we have to do the right thing

by pissing off these elected officials

to get them to take action.

- And just within the last hour, Publix announced

it is suspending any future political contributions.

- Hey, I'm walking here.

Yeah, you're cold blooded, so am I.

That's what politics is.

All these events are just ways that we can make sure people

understand that we're not going anywhere.

- NRA!

USA!

God bless America!

- David Hogg gets a lot of that,

and a lot worse.

At least three cars went by passengers hurled vile insults.

- I started writing my college essay today.

I'm calling it, How to Talk to People that Wanna Kill You.

- Television is the David Hogg channel now.

I can't turn anything on.

Listen, you son of a bitch, what the fuck is your problem?

- Tonight, right wing conspiracy theorist

going viral about David Hogg.

Some even claiming he's an actor, a pawn for the left wing.

- David Hogg is a product of indoctrination.

- He's a piece of scam by the way.

- It's hard to not respond to the people that call you

a crisis actor and say like, you're not real,

or like 17 people didn't die at your school.

- David Hogg basically threw himself into the snake pit

that is journalism and politics.

What else did you think was gonna happen?

- People said that they were going to show up at my house

and kill my entire family with their AR-15.

People said that they're gonna show me

what a real assault weapon looks like

and what damage it can do.

As a young man, I had never gotten death threats before,

as you can imagine.

I basically can't go to some areas where there's a lot

of people that don't like me.

- Fox News host, Laura Ingraham,

a grown woman, is trolling Parkland shooting survivor,

David Hogg, who I might remind you is just 17 years old.

"David Hogg rejected by four colleges to which he applied

"and whines about it."

And this isn't the first time Ingraham has gone

for the Parkland's students jugular.

- It's partially my fault too,

because I went on the news so much

at beginning in this and I was pissed off.

I look back and I cringe because I've never had the level

of emotional intelligence

or empathy or sympathy as Emma has.

- For me, it's more weird than it is scary.

I know that it's more scary for David

because he has a lot more negativity thrown at him.

If somebody sees me at the mall,

they're most likely coming up to say,

"Hey, thanks for what you're doing."

They're not likely going to say, "Hey fuck you",

which has happened to David a lot.

- What are you doing?

You're young, you should be crazy.

You should be unhinged.

Not in a suit saying, "I'm here to tell",

you.

You're not interesting.

'Cause you went to a high school where kids got shot.

Why does that mean I have to listen to you?

Why does that make you interesting?

You didn't get shot.

- Before this, I was working to try to figure out

how to grow plants on Mars.

And Emma wanted to work at NASA.

Sometimes life just takes you in a different direction

and you got to go.

- When you think of commencement speakers,

you think of people who are inspirational,

people who are eloquent, people who have changed the world.

When you think of high school students,

you think of people who are a little immature,

slightly awkward, still learning to be an adult.

Welcome to opposite day.

- Samantha Fuentes.

- Before all of this, I had a job, I had a good boyfriend,

I had good grades, I was gonna work through college,

I was gonna get my own place,

I was gonna work in a public school for like 40 years

and then retire.

And that was the plan.

But now I honestly don't feel whole,

if I'm not doing something that makes up for the fact that

I had people murdered in front of me.

- Accepting for Nicholas Dworet,

his family friend, Alexandria.

- The policy side, the political side,

I don't speak that language.

I use humor to cope, I use art to cope.

♪ Lady, running down to the riptide ♪

♪ Taken away to the dark side ♪

♪ I wanna be your left-hand man ♪

♪ I love you when you're singing that song ♪

I knew that I want to make a difference in some kind of way.

♪ You're gonna sing the words wrong ♪

I don't know what that way was going to look like.

I just knew what it felt like.

- Young people have become a potent force

in the gun debate,

but after three months of marches and rallies,

not much has changed on the national level.

- Would you get s'mores or Oreo?

And he's like, "Okay, I don't know."

- There's this website called the Gun Violence Archive

where every day they'll post all the people that have died

as a result of gun violence.

Every hour or two, I'll go on there and refresh just to see

who's died while I've been working.

This is the map of all the gun violence incidents this year

that they plot.

Do you see Florida?

That open space is Everglades.

It's a lot.

After the March, I was thinking, this is still happening,

and we have an election to vote in.

Shit, like what are we gonna do now?

Gun violence should be the issue,

but it should be mostly empowering to the individual.

- We were putting this pressure onto ourselves

saying this is a chance that not everybody is given.

We have to take this energy and keep moving with it.

So what better way than to go around the country,

talking to people.

- So now we're planning for this summer tour

around the country to connect to people

all around the country,

bringing the march to their backyards.

We have midterms coming up

and if you can get the youth behind something,

young people have been the moving force behind

every movement in this country.

- Survivors turned activist from Parkland, Florida,

hit the road this summer.

They'll make 50 plus stops

in more than 20 states and their mission

to try to turn the gun control wave

they sparked in the spring

into an energized voting block for midterm elections.

- In order to stop violence,

this can't just be a Chicago thing, or Parkland thing.

We need everyone to come together.

Talk to each other.

Vote!

- The biggest reason

it's extremely hard to pass gun legislation in this country,

and it starts with three letters, it's called the NRA.

This is not about swinging districts from red to blue

or blue to red, it's about swinging districts

toward morally-just leaders.

- Please go to the back room.

Are you on the panel? - Yeah.

- We are currently dealing with the best problem,

which is there are way too many people here.

- They like invite you up here

and I'm like, "I think I'm gonna cry,

"I think I'm gonna cry now."

I can't believe you're having up there.

- You're incredible.

Thank you so much for doing everything that you've done.

♪ Oh sugar ♪

- Matt, how much money does Steve King

take from the NRA?

- This year was $11,000.

This year it was $11,000.

- I really realize that it's my obligation to tell people

what me and the young population care about,

because the young people are able to vote yet.

We aren't gonna ban all guns,

but we do need to ban certain guns

and we do need to make more strict policies

about who can get those guns.

It's their job to protect us

and they're not doing their job correctly.

- Show me what democracy looks like.

- This is what democracy looks like.

♪ You run from me ♪

♪ Into the dark ♪

- I didn't follow any of the Parkland students.

I didn't really follow the movement.

When I saw all the media coverage

and all the celebrities like posting and reposting,

I was like, well, what about the kids of color

who were being shot and killed every single day.

You will see like trees

that have like Teddy Bears taped to them

or pictures of little kids who,

and it says like gone, but not forgotten.

So like kids who are taking by a bullet

that shouldn't have had their name on it in the first place,

but like, like Darius Simmons,

who was like the epitome of like Milwaukee,

a kid who was taken by gun violence

and his mother saw the entire thing.

She saw her son get shot twice, one in the chest,

like standing really close

and then shot when he tried to run away in his back.

So he fell face forward.

Darius was in sixth grade, so he was 12.

To be honest with you guys,

I was so done with white people.

And I know that sounds like so aggressive and unfair to say,

but at my school, like in January of last year,

someone posted white and colored over our water fountains

in January of last year, not in 1965, not 1940,

like in 2018, white and colored was plastered

above our water fountains.

So I was just so upset with like race.

I remember we walked in and like,

it was all of these people and I was like,

oh, I didn't know it was that important

that people were coming to hear about gun violence

in our community.

'Cause I've been at like town halls

where 10 other people would show up.

Hey, everybody, my name is Bria.

I'm a 17,

hey, what's up?

But I'm a 17-year-old rising senior.

And I'm a resident of Milwaukee.

My neighborhood is so conditioned that like,

if I don't have a gun that I might be crazy, you know?

I remember after the panel, Jackie comes towards me,

I did not know who she was.

She was like, "Hey, the students really liked

"what you were saying.

"They're wondering if you want to come on tour?"

I remember like running off to the side

and like FaceTimeing my mama.

And she was like, "What, like don't."

Like she, you know, the typical mom,

like who are these people, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Trying to get every single detail.

I think that was like the first moment

that I actually was like, okay, like how can I help.

I went home and I packed my bag for like three days.

And I was like, "Bye, mom."

I got fired from my job.

♪ I gotta keep trying ♪

And then the clothes I packed for three days

had to last me two months.

♪ Keep my head held high ♪

♪ There's always gonna be another mountain ♪

♪ I'm always gonna wanna make it move ♪

♪ Always gonna be an uphill battle ♪

♪ Sometimes you're gonna have to lose ♪

♪ Ain't about how fast I get there ♪

♪ Ain't about what's waiting on the other side ♪

I've never traveled like eight hours on a bus.

Like it was crazy.

But on the bus we were very, very productive.

We'd write speeches on the bus

phone calls, all that stuff.

- This is the list of people that I wanted to reach out to

from every stop things I had to do.

Adding on stuff here 'cause I couldn't fit it,

but I got everything done.

I had to.

- We ave two speakers from March For Our Lives,

Bria Smith and Emma Gonzalez.

- What's happening?

The millions of youth who reside in inner cities,

grow up with gun violence as their reality.

Youth of color have been fighting the battle

on the front lines for years, even here in Texas,

black men are six times more likely to be killed

in a firearm homicide than white men.

Texas has to be like the most humbling for me

because I never saw any bigger guns than I did in Texas.

And I was like, I'm kind of scared of big guns.

'Cause Texas people don't play.

They have like AR-15s

and like just like they just go crazy.

- Oh, yeah.

- We had security following us on the bus

because there are protests for panels

where there will be like 10 people

strapped to the nines with their MAGA hats

and their don't tread on me flags

or come and take it flags.

- We support the second amendment.

Thank you very much for coming out here today.

We're all on the same page.

The Utah Gun Exchange,

known for its flashy and upfront message,

has been following the rallies across the country.

- While the March For Our Lives Rally

is going on, this group is going on,

what they're calling, a Freedom Tour.

- At every location, Road to Change

is faced with counter protesters.

- Hey, if you think guns are the problem,

how come you have armed security guards here?

Like hundreds of police officers.

Don't you think they should disarm?

- No, because we're not anti-gun.

- Oh, you're not?

- No, we're not anti-gun at all.

We're pro, people who have proper training to use weapons,

and have proper background checks.

- So only people who have proper training,

so that means like a regular person like me

can't carry a gun?

- No, if you wanted a gun, then you should get the training.

- I have the training.

- Are you a law abiding citizen?

- I am a law abiding citizen.

- Well then you would be able to get a gun.

- Oh, I can have a gun?

- We're nottrying to take guns away from people

who already have them.

Sometimes we would go out and talk to them

and sometimes the security guys would be like,

it's not safe out there.

We don't really like the attitude of these guys.

The other day was fine,

but today I recommend you do not go out there.

- One of the protesters in El Paso, Texas,

ended up following us to our hotel.

- Can they see us from there? - I don't know.

They look like they're looking up though.

- They're not. - Took their handgun

and started going down the hallways of our hotel.

- I've been spotted.

They're gonna shoot through the window.

- While live streaming us on Facebook and saying,

this is where David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez are.

- What's going on, honey?

- There was a death threat and so it's not.

- Who sent the death threat?

- Someone sent it on Twitter from North Carolina though,

so I'm just nervous.

- I'm sorry.

- If they kill me they proved my point.

I think Maxine Waters said it best when somebody was like,

"I wanna kill you" and she told them to shoot straight.

- Hi! - Hi.

I didn't mean to interrupt you guys.

- Oh, that's okay.

- But anyway, I just wanted to bring you guys

some weekend food.

- Oh, you're so sweet.

Thank you so much.

What is your name? - Kendall.

- Wow, thank you so much.

- At first I intentionally kept myself away

from like all the families.

It's like, I don't wanna know about the grieving parents.

I don't wanna know about the family.

'Cause like that just furthers

the pain and the suffering.

And then I realized that like,

that's not necessarily the case.

I didn't actually know that Nick had a brother.

I found out that while I was in the classroom with Nick,

Alex was across the hall.

He was grazed by a bullet.

When I met Alex, I didn't feel that being around him

was really triggering.

I felt the opposite.

I felt being around him was very comforting.

- I hate when people say like, "Are you okay?"

Like obviously the fucking I'm not,

like there was so many people at my house after.

So like it was good.

But like, I guess you could say I have trust issues.

'Cause it's like, you're at school.

- I totally get that. - Yeah.

Like if there's glass around me,

I always look, I don't know.

- I noticed.

I noticed when you were sitting in the restaurant.

I noticed when you were sitting in the house.

We're afraid of the same thing,

sort of paranoid of people's actions.

It's all just tied it into like one

with some atrocious ribbon,

- Do you have the same thing?

- Yeah, for me, it's like the smell.

- Yeah, I remember you were like, "What's that smell?"

- Like loud noises, like looking at everybody.

There isn't a lot of people who can

relate to that feeling.

Looking for someone but not knowing what I was looking for.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, I honestly feel like Alex at times

is the only person who does.

- Oh, I do that too.

A teacher once was like, "Stop chewing it."

- It reminds me that if I needed someone

to talk to, I could.

Oh and I destroy my fingernails.

- The policies you are marching for

will not protect any children.

It will harm children.

It will take away their liberty.

The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun

is a good guy with a gun.

- Go home.

- Go home.

- The sources of those people's anger,

it's pain that they feel

because they feel misunderstood and misconstrued.

The reason they are counter protesting

is 'cause they don't think we're going to go out there.

They don't think that we care about what they have to say.

We care about what everybody has to say.

People feel like they aren't heard.

- As a grandma myself,

every one of my grandkids attend a school

where they have armed staff.

I wouldn't rather have my kids go anywhere else

but the schools they go to

because there's somebody there that's gonna step up.

So my grandkids aren't cowering down behind a desk,

in a closet, hoping and praying to God

that somebody gets there and stops the bad guy

before he finds them.

- We also were praying that too.

While I was in that in closet.

- That's having two jobs.

Basically as a teacher,

then protecting the kids as well.

- I don't think a teacher

who doesn't want to carry a gun

should be required to.

- I don't either. - We're not talking that.

- You think volunteer people,

how about volunteer security guards?

- It's a very tough conversation to have

because putting a firearm in a situation in general

can mean someone else dies.

And that can be the bad guy and that can be the good guy

or just an innocent bystander.

Any of you that have been in a shooting,

you can understand that.

Those 150 hours of training mean nothing

in that one split second.

- So because you don't rise to the occasion,

you fall to your most basic level of training.

- Exactly, and no amount of training can train you

out of that instinct.

And that's my biggest reluctance

to specifically putting more guns in schools,

which I'm sure you guys can understand.

- I don't necessarily agree with it

but I respect your opinion, that's fine.

- Isn't it better to give people the liberty

to at least try to defend themselves.

Isn't that more preferable than taking my defensive tools

and my liberties away from me?

- That's what I asked them.

And they said, they're not anti-gun,

they're just for common sense, whatever.

They're literally not trying to take guns away,

that's what I hear anyways.

But you hear a lot of things from inside.

- We hear a lot from your side too.

- This is what creates America.

This is what America is about.

Coming together, come on, let me shake your hand.

- I appreciate y'all coming out of here, man.

- What fuels movements is not anger.

We need to have a conversation about this violence.

- This is what America's about.

It's about love.

Nothing else but love.

If we're divided, we fall.

If we don't come together, we fall.

Do y'all want that?

- And you can sound being inauthentic about that

but that's honestly why we went to Dallas, Texas.

- I think it's cool that these kids are doing something

that they believe in.

- I mean, yeah, I get that part.

- You don't see that very often.

- I cannot even tell you what was going on in my head.

I had no time to think about anything that had happened.

I had no time to realize what the world was

or what our place in it was anymore.

I would sit down at night and I would think,

can you believe this happened?

And I would feel nothing.

I would go to bed.

And then I would be walking somewhere during the day.

You know, we'd be at the courthouse

or we'd be at doing some TV hit somewhere.

We'd be meeting with some of the Sandy Hook family,

or whatever it might be.

I would just be in a time when I had to be on

and I would just burst into tears.

- Let me ask you, you knew where you were coming,

that we were carrying, why did you still approach us?

- I want to talk. - Good, thank you.

- Appreciate it.

- I hope you feel safe because you are welcome here.

You're welcome to stay with us as long as you would like.

- My dad has a concealed carry.

- Are you from March For Our Live?

- Yes, I'm from the March For Our Lives.

- Are you from Florida?

- Yes, I'm from Parkland, Florida.

- Okay, I think I know who you are.

- What's your name? - Tommy.

- Tommy, my first baseball game was an Astros.

- Okay, dude, You know what, man?

I thought I could just be real with you.

You guys are being used by politics, man.

- I'm sure, yeah.

- You guys are being sucked into the machine.

They put you and all your friends on TV,

you got on the covers of magazines

and it made you feel real nice and good.

- See, it didn't.

- They're using you, man.

- Well, here's the thing, two things.

Number one, I haven't felt nice or good in a while.

I'm a deeply traumatized individual.

I'm just one with a purpose

because I know that since I'm lucky enough

to be alive right now,

I have to do something to make sure

that when my friend died, he didn't die in vain.

You can call us puppets all you want,

for coming out of a school shooting

and thinking school shootings could be stopped by something.

The puzzle piece that you're missing,

is that I put me in the media.

I went out there where I knew the cameras were

and I stood in front of them and I said, "You know what,

"let me tell you what happened right there."

Because the worst thing

that could have possibly happened, happened, right?

Because if you had shown me February 1st

that right now I would be advocating for political policy,

I would say great.

I've always wanted to advocate for political policy.

If you had said,

here's what it would take for you guys to get your platform.

I would have said, okay, obviously not.

Well, you know what I'm living in obviously not.

My reality is the obviously not.

I don't know if you ever read comic books,

but if you look at the alternate universes,

we're in the worst one.

Look, I could be at summer camp right now.

My initial plan was to be at summer camp.

And then I was going to go for one session,

then work at my comic book store and be happy

because that's what I would've wanted to do.

The thing is, people are dead.

♪ I know what you wanna say ♪

♪ I think that you're all the same ♪

♪ Constantly being led astray ♪

♪ You think you know something you don't ♪

♪ Downtown harks back ♪

♪ Halfway up the street ♪

♪ I used to be free ♪

♪ I used to be 17 ♪

♪ Follow my shadow ♪

♪ Around your corner ♪

♪ I used to be 17 ♪

- You look great.

- Thank you.

Sorry, what was the question again?

It's really hot in here.

- How are you working to make your community

healthier, safer, and more inclusive?

- I'm working, do I have to restate that entire phrase?

- No, you don't.

- Okay.

♪ I see you so uncomfortably alone ♪

What was the question again?

Good thing this isn't live.

I'm really bad at live interviews.

♪ I wish I could show you how much you've grown ♪

- Welcome, Samantha.

♪ Downtown harks back ♪

♪ I used to be on this street ♪

- I saw a picture of my friends and I

four days before the shooting

and we were at the fair.

And I said, "What is that?"

How was that my life?

The things I'm doing now

are not unlike what I would have done.

I loved politics.

I mean, I was at my first Obama rally when I was eight.

Advocating for gun control in DC.

Chances are I might've done it anyway,

but doing it because you want to

and doing it because you feel like you have to

are two very different things.

You look back and it's impossible not to just say

I would give anything to get that back.

♪ I know what you're gonna be ♪

- Yeah.

- Unsurprisingly she got $94,000.

- It's like 6%, right?

The youth voter turnout?

If we increase that to like 10%, we can swing this district.

- It's grown to be personal at this point for me.

I walk every single day of my life

with physical evidence on my body.

And my journey is never going to be the same.

And I would never wish that upon anyone else.

♪ You're just 17 ♪

♪ You're just 17 ♪

♪ 17 ♪

- What's up? - What's up?

I definitely think that Alex and I have gotten closer.

Hop in.

He kind of reminds me of how I was when I was younger.

Like in my mind, he's a little kid.

Before Florida was colonized into like a state,

the Spanish actually came here first

to find the Fountain of Youth.

Apparently the myth goes that if you drink

or bathe in the water,

that you will live forever and look the same age.

So the Spanish came here, they never found it obviously.

Alex wears the hoodie a lot

because he's really aware of the scar

that's on the back of his head

and does pretty much everything in his power to hide it.

I relate in such a harsh way because like I find myself

doing the exact same thing.

- Frog Leg Festival.

This year we're gonna go to the Frog Leg Festival.

- Got fried frog legs, got boiled frog legs,

you got grilled frog legs.

- You got steamed frog legs.

- You got frog leg pot pie.

You got frog leg pizza, frog leg cupcakes.

I wish there was a way that he could just feel comfortable.

Like not having to wear a hoodie in 90 degree weather.

- Ice cream frog legs.

- Ice cream frog legs.

Yummy, I'm drooling just thinking about it.

There we go. - Just hold it.

- The kickstand is not staying.

- Yeah, just hold it.

- Okay. - Just hold it.

- I am, look at this.

Okay, I'm gonna lose my mind.

- Do you need help? - Okay.

Tell me I'm not crazy.

I'm holding it.

Hold, ready?

Hold it and it keeps clicking out.

- Is it in good? - Yeah.

Or maybe Alex is just better at everything.

Anyways.

He probably doesn't even know that I do this,

but I worry about him a lot.

I won't ever be able to understand what it feels like

to lose a brother.

But I do know what it feels like to lose a friend.

- Jackie's getting Matt, Jamal, and Chris.

- You can have a midlife crisis at any age.

- Are you getting Matt, Jamal, and Chris?

- When I got further into the tour, I was like,

you have two different people

from like two different perspectives.

But when you talk some

you find out that you have like the same things in common.

♪ Ma, ma, ma, ma ma ma, ma ma, ma ♪

♪ Ma, ma, ma ma, ma ♪

It was two different communities,

but we were sharing one thing in common.

It was that trauma and it was the sadness.

- One of the earliest days that I knew Bria,

we were talking about the day of the shooting,

things that were bothering us,

things that we couldn't say in the media,

because we didn't want to glorify the shooter.

And Bria had been talking about her experience in Milwaukee

and so we just spent the whole evening

basically discussing our trauma.

From that day on we really like understood each other.

- I remember talking about like planning

for the Walk Out at my school.

I got a text message saying that one of my friends had shot

and killed himself that day.

I think when that happened, that's when I like shifted,

you know, that's what I was like,

okay, guns and young people is very important.

Like we need to talk about this,

we need to address this as a whole.

It reminded me the didst of like the Civil Rights era.

It was Black people and White people and Latino people

and advocating and fighting for the same thing,

which is the essential right to life.

Me and Matt's friendship is unlikely.

The people in power today,

the entire blood-soaked power structure,

want nothing more than for us to be divided.

- To silo our cause

but our unity is their greatest fear.

- Because when a Jewish kid from Maryland

and a black inner city kid from Milwaukee come together

and stand in solidarity.

- When those kids join up with kids from Chicago, Houston,

LA, St. Louis, Parkland, and New Town,

to fight violence in all communities.

- When young people from every race, gender,

sexuality, and state defy the narrative

that we have to be isolated from each other

and afraid of each other.

- You know that there is a new and unsettling force

for change in this country.

- You know that we're going to win.

You know that we're going to win.

You know that we are going to win.

♪ I was born by the river ♪

♪ In a little tent ♪

♪ Just like that river ♪

♪ I've been running ever since ♪

♪ It's been a long ♪

♪ A long time coming ♪

♪ But I know ♪

♪ A change is gonna come ♪

- All or many of us know

that my father, Martin Luther King Jr.,

was killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

What you probably do not know is the 1974,

just a few years later, my grandmother, his mother,

was gunned down in Ebenezer Baptist Church.

I'm excited because I have not recently seen a movement

like this since 1963, when 3000 students,

high school students, in Birmingham led that movement.

So momentum is coming and a change is on the horizon.

♪ A change gonna come ♪

♪ Oh, oh, yes it will ♪

♪ I go to the schoolyard ♪

♪ I go downtown ♪

♪ But everybody keeps telling me ♪

♪ Don't hang around ♪

- Come on, let's give them some love.

March For Our Lives, Road to Change.

And also we have Lucy McBath.

Lucy is running for Congress.

Lucy, yes!

- Her teenage son was shot and killed

by a man who said he felt threatened.

Now, she is running for Congress

to fight for gun control.

You were the best panelist.

And I want you to make sure Wisconsin does

one thing in November, get rid of Scott Walker.

Please. - That's what I'm saying.

- Support for the NRA is on the decline.

40% of Americans now view the NRA negatively.

- The NRA's approval ratings

are deeply underwater.

- The kids that mobilized themselves

after Parkland may have actually helped

to change the calculus.

We have never seen a shift in the politics of guns

for almost 20 years.

That may have changed.

- Over the course of the summer

I've had interviews, panels, TV specials,

little articles that I was writing

were gonna be featured in.

And then it hit me, like I'm here in Manhattan

receiving an award.

And it's like, Morgan Freeman's in one corner,

Stephen King's in the other corner.

Where do I fit in, in all of this?

- Thank you everybody.

We are so honored to give this award

to these three terrific people

who have shown amazing courage and leadership

following a terrible tragedy.

- Good evening, it's a beautiful day in New York City,

The PEN America Literary Gala.

I'm so honored that I could be a part of it.

When I was finally up on that stage,

it felt like I was at the March all over again.

I've learned a whole lot of interesting things.

I could feel the same fear at the bottom of my gut.

Education is the very foundations.

I remember just thinking like great,

there's no windows in this room, there's no clear exits.

I started getting more and more fearful

for what it might do to me.

I suppose I won this award

because I'm doing the right thing

and prioritizing people's lives over guns.

It's a simple and straightforward cause.

But in a world that has grown so chaotic and convoluted.

- We love you.

When I run off of a stage, I was like immensely embarrassed,

probably more embarrassed than the first time.

I'm was disappointed, ashamed.

And I was absolutely hysterical.

I was like, off stage behind the dividers.

And my mom came up to me and I was just asking her like,

why did I have to do this again?

Why again?

Why now?

God, I'm so stupid.

I'm so stupid.

Oh my God, fuck this.

And I remember my mom.

She was like rubbing my back.

And she was just like, it's okay.

You're just not ready.

You're just not ready.

And I'm like, no, mom, I am ready.

Like you just don't know.

And that's like, that's what got me on the stage

because my mom told me I wasn't ready.

I think sometimes I forget I got shot.

And I think that like, things are easy sometimes.

And then I put it on the back burner and I pretend that

everything's going to be totally fine.

And then you throw up on stage

the second fucking time in a row.

Thank you so much for believing in me, but not just me,

thank you for believing that together

we can correct the moral and fundamental problems

in this country.

And thank you, PEN, for giving me this award.

Not only has the shooting like almost taken my life,

it's taken my sense of safety.

It's taken my sanity.

It's took my schooling away from me.

It took my fucking normal life away from me.

It took everything.

You know what, like I'm fucked up.

Like I wake up and I think people

are standing out my window

and I'm gonna fucking shoot me in the head.

I'm fucked up.

Usually like when I'm alone, I get triggered by something

and I start thinking about that day

and I watch things that I shouldn't,

I would watch this video probably a million times over,

the dots represented the shooter and then the victims.

Watching the breakdown of where the shooter went

from class to class,

seeing those dots turn different colors

does not help by any fucking means at all.

I know those details,

but they light up like a Christmas tree in my brain.

I think about where Nick was sitting.

What was he wearing?

Or what kind of shoes was he wearing?

And the fact that he was

across the hallway from his brother,

they had the ability to walk to each other

and give each other high fives and hugs.

But they couldn't.

That alone haunts me.

The first thing someone said was, is this a drill?

I remember screaming "what the fuck"

at the top of my lungs.

I thought I got shot in the head

and I thought it was dead for a moment.

I started to black out, or white out rather.

I was like, just kind of in this dream,

weird state of being dead and being alive.

I think about not like genuine suicide,

but I think about jumping out of things a lot

and having to completely end my life,

like for seconds at a time sometimes,

but not because I want to die,

but because I think I'm going to die.

Does that make sense?

- This is Batman and Philosophy.

I bought this actually on the tour.

We took a night where we were at a mall

and I just needed something to read

that was not about guns or guns or gun control or guns.

So I picked up this book and it's about

applying general philosophical concepts to Batman.

And I was like, this seems like not guns.

I was depressed and I wasn't really realizing it.

I thought I was just tired.

We were meeting with a bunch of survivors

from the shooting in Las Vegas.

- So I was working the event that night.

And I see people getting shot

in front of me and the shooters on top of my head.

- They told us details

about what happened to their leg when it got shot,

how it felt to run on the leg with a bullet in it,

- From my neck down.

- I'd spend the whole summer

hearing stories of people's pain and misery.

But for some reason they got me.

I had to walk out.

- The biggest thing for all of you to know

the congressmen in the first district and the third district

they are already people that are pretty good on guns.

The issue is this guy named,

what's his name? - Dean Heller.

- Dean Heller - Yes.

- Dean Heller has taken a shit load of money from the NRA

and the attorney general.

- Adam Laxalt.

- L-A-X-A-L-T.

- I felt dizzy and I felt like I was gonna pass out.

And I said, I can't do this anymore.

- Carl, Kayla, Jonah, Cameron and Jamal.

- Is Cameron here? - Where's Cameron?

- He took the day off, just feeling bad.

- What's up? - Was he on the program?

- He was on the program.

- Is someone taking Cameron's spot or no?

- Bria. - Bria.

- So how many people?

- I'm sorry, I can't take pictures today.

- All right, thank you.

- It might be good to emphasize how unhealthy we were

so that people don't think that it's a good idea

to do a bus journey of their own.

I can't actually take pictures right now.

I was truly a broken person at the end of all that.

Every time somebody was like,

"Can I get a picture with you?"

I was like, this isn't fair

that I'm getting all of this attention.

I don't want it.

Nobody should have this.

Especially when you're traumatized.

That's like the worst thing.

- I've said so many times

that you are the future, keep going.

- People come up to us and they're like,

"Oh, you're so brave."

And I'm like, am I?

Am I brave?

Or am I just hardheaded, am I naive?

I wrote something.

And I said it in a way that everybody related to it.

That's not deserving of anything more than anybody else.

For that, one more.

David does a lot more.

- Ow!

- I'm so sorry.

He Tweets like three times an hour.

I don't know how he has the energy to do that.

I don't know what just happened with his face.

He's such a good man.

- I feel like I have a lot more courage because of Emma.

I feel like I can like go out there and do these protests

because of all my friends.

But I think we all have kind of discovered

this side of ourselves

that kind of grew out of us from this.

Where like, yeah, you can be really happy,

but you can also be incredibly fucking sad.

And like the capacity for that sadness,

that hole of sadness has gotten deeper.

And how far it can go.

And honestly, I don't know if there's any bottom.

Right now we are right across the street

from Congressman Dana.

A man that has taken over $42,000 from the NRA.

We're gonna say,

"Congressman Dana, we are not gonna vote for you

"because of $42,000."

Okay?

Say it with me.

We're gonna say it a couple of times.

Congressman Dana, we will not vote for you

because of $42,000.

Congressman Dana, we will not vote for you

because of $42,000.

Congressman Dana, we will not vote for you

because of $42,000.

Okay, that's great.

- I stand here today and I look at these faces

and I think, this is what we're fighting for.

Those kids, they all had lives,

they had futures ahead of them,

and I can tell you,

there are so many students out there that are so excited

to vote for the first time once they turn 18,

who know what they are fighting for.

We are fighting for the freedom to live,

and we are fighting for the next generation.

So they won't have to grow up how we did.

♪ Loving you it runs so deep ♪

♪ Upon the surface here I sleep ♪

♪ Walking in dark and light ♪

♪ Walking all the day and night ♪

♪ Rivers fall the ocean's side ♪

♪ Fall for you every time ♪

♪ Like a bee to the flowers buzz ♪

♪ Does a flower question love ♪

- That's really what I miss.

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

- Summer ended and we realized

it was almost like a game show where we put 20 teenagers

on a bus and see who can go completely batshit crazy first.

And I'd like to announce that I won.

♪ In the backdrop of the night ♪

- This is the alternative stuff.

I never understood it.

This is Alan Moore, who's a very popular writer

because he's a very talented one.

This is a statue that they actually erected of me.

And you know, it was on one of my worst days,

but that's that.

So Cameron has fallen and we do not know

if he will be able to get back up

and here in Parkland, the world spins on.

And we had a lot of kids

that were gonna be going back to school

where a bunch of people just got killed.

I knew I wasn't going back to that school.

I was gonna finish online,

but I wish I had gone back

because everybody else did.

And if they could do it, why the fuck couldn't I, you know?

♪ Under the starlight ♪

♪ Days, days ♪

- After everything happened, I was like,

do I have the right to go to college?

Do I deserve to go to college?

Or should I give up the rest of my life and work on this?

And everybody was like, "No, you idiot, do school".

I was like, okay, okay, I'll do school.

♪ Out from your slumber ♪

♪ Into the wonder ♪

- It felt weird to have a schedule

that was like class, class, lunch, class, and then go home.

I was flying out like almost every weekend

and like go to speak at different events.

- I don't know if it's because I've literally grew up

in a period of 10 months,

but I'm definitely a 30-year-old now.

I need to apply to at least one school.

Just my awareness changes my entire life.

- Breaking overnight, tragedy in Tallahassee.

A gunman opening fire at a yoga studio in Florida,

killing two and wounding five others.

- Tragedy strikes

at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

11 people dead.

The stakes couldn't be higher

for Tuesday's midterm elections.

- Go to vote.org.

You can vote in this election if you're already registered

at your home, but you can get an absentee ballot

to be sent to your school.

There's a lot that still has to be done

because there's going to be more shootings

until these laws are enacted.

Hey, have you voted? - Yeah, I did.

- Awesome. - Oh wristband.

- I recognize your face. - Here's a pin.

It's about calling bullshit on politicians

that don't give a fuck about young people.

Yeah. - Thanks!

- Have you voted?

- Awesome! - Right now!

- I had to get a different hotel room from Matt

because I talk to my sleep apparently.

He said that I talk about winning.

Like I say in my sleep, "we're gonna win."

And honestly, I'm not surprised.

We've turned out.

We've marched and we fought

harder than we've ever fought before

for a morally just America that cares about us.

- Are you voting by any chance?

- You can go and vote today.

- We have a bus outside taking people to early vote.

- But are we going to vote for that America?

We're ramping up, we're going to

as many districts as we can.

I was home for a day, washed my clothes,

turned in my absentee ballet.

- I voted!

It's a momentous time in my life.

- Don't wait for politics to affect you to become involved.

Become involved today by voting for policies

that won't get you killed tomorrow.

I never look back and think I gave too much myself ever.

I always look back and think, i should have given more.

- Over 500 in this room alone.

Should I pretend to be Emma Gonzalez?

Hi, we call BS.

- Emma?

- Emma.

- Polls have closed in half the country.

This is the 2018 midterm election.

- What difference

will the youth vote make tonight?

- We fucking won.

- Young voters showed up at the polls

at historic rates this mid-term election.

- Early voting jumped 188%.

- We did have

one of the highest youth voter turnouts

in American history.

46 NRA backed politicians lost their elections.

I can tell you what I was really happy about,

getting Mia Love

the fuck out of office.

Unsurprisingly, she got $94,000

throughout her term in office.

Scott Walker was voted out.

I'm sure that made Bria happy.

Lucy McBath, that's a huge seat for the NRA

that they wanna take back.

- Lucy, yeah.

- And we flipped Orange County

out of NRA control.

Congressman Dana, we will not vote for you

because of $42,000.

It still doesn't feel like enough.

♪ Well, it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe ♪

♪ If you don't know by now ♪

♪ And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe ♪

♪ It'll never do some how ♪

- As the year progressed life got slower.

♪ The break of dawn ♪

Speaking invitations became less

and my life started to get a little worse.

♪ I'll be gone ♪

I got cheated on by my boyfriend.

♪ You're the reason I'm traveling on ♪

And lost my best friend

♪ Don't think twice, it's all right ♪

because they're dating each other.

Oh god, look at this fucking, I need to delete this picture.

Get out of my life.

Why are there duplicates of me kissing this fucking idiot?

Okay, sorry.

♪ So long honey babe ♪

♪ Where I'm bound, I can't tell ♪

The anniversary, it was just a reminder of what happened.

A year later, it just cycles around and it's passed around.

- Hi.

- Hello, good to see you.

- But it just doesn't go away.

♪ Treated me unkind ♪

♪ You could have done better but I don't mind ♪

♪ You just kind of wasted my precious time ♪

♪ So don't think twice, it's all right ♪

All right, make sure I don't hit anything.

- I already got like four splinters.

I didn't know I was coming here to work.

- I had no idea.

I thought we were just going to come look at it.

When I have the flashbacks and it all comes back to my head,

sometimes Nick is replaced with Alex

because in some alternate universe it could have been Alex

and it almost was.

Oh, yeah. - Hi.

- Hi.

- I was born 2003, February 12th,

and my brother here can say his birthday.

- My birthday is someday at the end of the month.

- March 24th, 2000.

Bye.

- Grief, fear, and paranoia, hardens someone,

and makes them more aware.

I just hope it doesn't harden him

to a point where he won't let other people in.

- I ran on a platform of guns,

so the temperature is changing.

- Yeah.

- You have been the game changers,

your whole demographic, your whole age group,

and I pray that you will go to the polls again,

and I'm praying that you would make guns a top priority.

- The NRA started losing members,

they lost all their corporate partnerships, so...

- We're well aware.

- They're not that powerful

after what you guys did to them.

It's just a question of whether you can keep this up.

- Do you think you have enough in the movement

to keep it, really?

- Oh yeah, absolutely.

I mean, we have years and years more

than these people are gonna live

so we have a lot of time on our hands.

I'm in no way, hiding under a rock or going dormant.

I'm not gonna be quiet.

I'm majoring in activism in school,

that's my thing.

I'm just doing things on my own terms.

- I'm hopeful that the world fixes its shit.

I don't believe it will.

I think we're 50 to 75 or 100 years away

from just the world as we know it completely changing.

We gotta be either optimistically nihilist

or blissfully ignorant.

And I'm going for number two.

I'm hoping I could figure out blissful ignorance

and live in it, but, you know.

I do look at friends of mine who don't care about the things

that I care about and who just live their lives,

and I envy them so much

because if I could just not care,

I would feel so much less pain

and I would be in a much better place.

I'm watching so many people persevere

and they're serving as a guiding light to me.

Even those who went through a lot more than I did

are waking up in the morning.

Even though the sun's just shining down on a world

that has taken so very much away from them

and has shown them no kindness, has shown them no mercy,

they're gonna get up and they're gonna move.

And right now the future looks there.

I wouldn't say it looks bright,

I wouldn't say it looks dark,

I'd say it looks like it's there.

It's in front of us.

And it's up to us to do whatever we want with it.

- I love being out here.

I very much wish that I could live this way.

Nobody except boat tours know where you live.

There's a would you rather question

that I got a long time ago.

It was would you rather be alone for the rest of your life,

never have any human contact,

or never have a moment's privacy?

I think about that a lot, nowadays especially.

- Oh my gosh.

- How did we do the same hair?

- Do we literally have the same hair?

- I did it today. - I did it today.

- We didn't plan this.

- Oh my god, that's so funny.

- That's so cool. - That's so cool.

- Oh, I'm crying.

I was dreading it and the moment that I saw you,

I just felt completely better.

For a long time it was really hard to relate

to a lot of people because that's what trauma does.

It rips apart the parts of you that builds you up

and dismantles them.

But those are the moments where you have the most clarity

'cause things become a lot more clear in the dark.

- When you have your life tested,

you pretty much gain this fucking mentality

where the worst that can happen is you die.

Let's do this!

Six minutes and 20 seconds with an AR15,

and my friend Carmen would never complain to me

about piano practice.

Aaron Feis would never call Kira miss sunshine.

Helena Ramsay would never hang out after school with Max.

Gina Montalto would never wave to her friend,

Liam, at lunch.

Alex Schachter would never walk into school

with his brother, Ryan.

Joaquin Oliver would never play basketball

with Sam or Dillon.

Alaina Petty would never, Cara Loughran would never,

Chris Hixon would never, Luke Hoyer would never,

Martin Duque Anguiano would never,

Peter Wang would never, Alyssa Alhadeff would never,

Jaime Guttenberg would never, Meadow Pollack would never.

I still think the world's gone to shit.

The ice caps are melting.

The pyramids are probably gonna fall over one day.

But I do think that people in the world

are gonna get better.

♪ I've been dazed ♪

♪ My pride is gone ♪

♪ My mistake ♪

♪ Guess I'll move on ♪

♪ London days ♪

♪ It's cold outside ♪

♪ Lost my way ♪

- I won't be able to vote for another eight years,

but I speak on every occasion I can.

I find candidates who support the same ideals I do,

like gun control, public education.

- My name is Natalie Barden.

I lost my little brother Daniel five and a half years ago

in the Sandy Hook school shooting.

The students from Parkland showed me

that we have to use our voices to enact this change.

That simply must come.

♪ Time is a healer, time is a healer ♪

- I was looking at The Trays,

which is a great gun violence reporting news site,

and they just reported that FedEx

discontinued their relationship with the NRA,

which suggest the gun group no longer has the economic clout

to inspire the corporate world.

Oh my God!

- That's literally every company.

That's literally all of them.

- Calling the March For Our Lives

one of the most significant youth-led mass movements

in living memory.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented them

with the International Children's Peace Prize.

- Greta Thunberg, 16 years old,

demanding more action on the climate crisis.

And she got her inspiration from the school walkouts

after the Parkland shooting.

♪ Won't you carry on ♪

- Welcome to my room.

I was thinking about a lot of things

and my brain wasn't shutting up.

So I thought, what better way than to

kind of, sort of, write it down,

but also make it physically available to everybody else

who walks into my room?

So I was like, guns are connected to

a bunch of other things

like healthcare, and rape culture, and consumerism,

and environmentalism, and genocide,

and fame and celebrities,

which is connected to the patriarchy,

which is connected to colonialism.

Not everything on this wall has all of the connections,

but that's because I ran out of yarn.

♪ Help me carry on ♪

♪ I need piece of mind ♪

♪ Help me carry on ♪

Everything's connected to everything, dude.