The Parkland Teens Fighting For Gun Control Have The Backing Of These Huge Organizing Groups
"The Parkland Shooting May Have Just Cemented America’s Newest Voting Bloc Furious teens and parents are emerging as a political force for gun control."
Some of the largest organizing groups in the country are helping the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting survivors. Not even two weeks ago they only had one another and social media.
Originally posted on February 28, 2018, at 10:02 a.m. Updated on February 28, 2018, at 12:56 p.m.
Mary Ann Georgantopoulos BuzzFeed News Reporter
Brianna Sacks BuzzFeed News Reporter
-
Sofie Whitney @sofiewhitney
We’re gonna be in the air at 5:00, but everyone better be tweeting #MarchForOurLives!!! 8:34 AM - Feb 28, 2018 -
Several large progressive organizations, donors, and a high-powered public relations firm are backing the March for Our Lives movement, which is quickly evolving from a student-run social media effort to end gun violence into one backed by some of the most influential activists in the country.
In the days after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people, the teenage survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were impossible to ignore. They blanketed cable news coverage, built a massive following on social media, and began to organize a rally in the country's capital in support of gun reform.
Barely two weeks ago, the student survivors sat in a circle in the living room of one of their parents' homes, planning a trip to Tallahassee to meet with lawmakers and handling nitty-gritty matters like which media outlets to talk to.
Since then, major players and organizations — including Everytown, Giffords, Move On, Planned Parenthood, and the Women’s March LA — told BuzzFeed News they are helping the students with logistics, strategy, and planning for next month’s March for Our Lives rally and beyond. Much of the specific resources the groups are providing to the Parkland students remains unclear — as is the full list of supporting organizations — but there are broad outlines.
Giffords, an organization started by former US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that fights gun violence, is working with Everytown and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America to plan the main march on Washington — as well as sister rallies across the country.
With the event scheduled to happen in less than a month, a spokesperson for Giffords told BuzzFeed News the organization "will be lending support in any way the students need, especially helping to operationalize these marches from logistics to programming."
"We applaud these students for demonstrating incredible leadership and demanding that our lawmakers do more to help protect Americans from gun violence," the spokesperson said.
Is detection and prevention better than "hardening" schools to prevent school shootings?
"The Parkland Shooting May Have Just Cemented America’s Newest Voting Bloc Furious teens and parents are emerging as a political force for gun control."
Why hardening schools hasn't stopped school shootings
The president wants to arm teachers and staff, but research suggests that may do little to prevent shootings.
Detection and prevention has halted many terrorist threats around the world. Every school and more importantly every teacher and all others involved with the school, as counselors, should be involved.
A combination of hardening measures along with increased and efficient early detection and prevention of threats is likely the best approach.
Market Data 
Markets 
AI
