The Parkland, Florida students who survived the nation’s recent horrific school shooting went on Fox News Sunday and threw down by saying, “You’re either with us or against us on gun control.”
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The Parkland shooting survivors tell Fox News that you're either with us or against us on gun control.#MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/twknJB9bEx
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 18, 2018
Transcript via Fox News Sunday:
CAMERON KASKY, HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR: Today, I’d like to announce that we have an event coming up to have everybody in the nation talking about what we are talking about. And one of the things we’ve been hearing is that it’s not the time you have to talk about gun control and we respect that. We’ve lost 17 lives in our community took 17 bullets to the heart and it’s difficult to come back from that.
So, here is the time that we are going to talk about gun control. March 24th, we have the March for Our Lives which you can find at marchforourlives.com and expect to us a lot. The March for Our Lives is going to be in every major city. And we are organizing it so students everywhere can beg for our lives, because at the end of the day, this isn’t about the red and blue, the GOP and the Democrats. This is about adults and kids.
And at this point, you’re either with us or against us. 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.
These young people aren’t fooling around. It would have been easy for them to stick to social media and outlets that would be more friendly to their message to announce their stand, but there are elected Republican officials who won’t go on Fox News Sunday and do what Cameron Kasky did. The largest part of the gun control problem is that Republicans have been afraid to go on Fox News or Fox News Sunday, look the NRA in the eye, and say that we have to do something.
The Stoneman Douglas High School students are brave, relentless, and won’t stop until they bring about real changes in gun policy.
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