Survivors from a massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school are calling for a nationwide March for Our Lives on March 24 across the country.
The five survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., announced the march on “Fox News Sunday.”
The students are angry at federal inaction over gun control and called out the National Rifle Association.
“We are organizing it so students everywhere can beg for our lives,” said Cameron Kasky, a junior at the high school. “We are giving all our politicians a clean slate and in the next election we are saying if you are accepting money from the NRA there is a badge of shame on you because you are enabling things like this to happen.”
The students said this is the time for change after other mass shootings have led to no action.
“What we need to do here is come together not as Democrats or Republicans but as Americans and work together to solve this issue through love and compassion,” said David Hogg, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. “It is now time to work together, overcome their political differences and get things done.”
