People around the country will march in solidarity with the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to demand commonsense gun reform. The Parkland, Florida students organized the March for Our Lives in the wake of the all-too-common tragedy they experienced when a former student with an AR-15 entered the school and killed 17 of their classmates. Since the February 14 Parkland shooting, these students have been leaders for gun reform despite grappling with trauma and have been viciously attacked and smeared by activists on the Far Right.

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No matter what the NRA and the Far Right say, an overwhelming majority of Americans support commonsense gun safety measures. A massive showing at the marches across the country will demonstrate that we’re not backing down and that we won’t stop until students no longer have to fear going to school and ALL communities can be free of rampant gun violence.

PFAW is proud to be uplifting the leadership of these young leaders and marching with them for desperately needed reforms.

This is a critical moment for this country, and it is an inspiration to see young people take the lead and incite change. No student or teacher should have to fear going to school, and it is long past time that elected officials actually do something.

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Everything You Need to Know About the March for Our Lives

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Less than a week after a gunman killed 14 students and three staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, survivors of the shooting have mobilized to launch the #NeverAgain movement, and the March for Our Lives, a nationwide protest on March 24 to protest gun violence.

“Not one more,” the March’s Mission Statement reads. “We cannot allow one more child to be shot at school. We cannot allow one more teacher to make a choice to jump in front of a firing assault rifle to save the lives of students. We cannot allow one more family to wait for a call or text that never comes. Our schools are unsafe. Our children and teachers are dying. We must make it our top priority to save these lives.”

Here’s everything you need to know about the march and related events.

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When and where is it happening?
The main march will take place in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, March 24 at noon, just blocks away from the Capitol on Pennsylvania Avenue (see the map of the march route here.) Supporters are also planning sister marches in New York City; Boston; Los Angeles; Chicago; Miami; San Francisco; Dallas; Boise; West Palm Beach; Liverpool, England; and hundreds of other cities across the world. Currently, there are over 800 March for Our Lives events planned around the world.

To find a march near you, search “March for Our Lives” on Facebook, or check out the map here.

Who’s organizing it?
The event is being put together by #NeverAgain, a group of survivors of the Stoneman Douglas shooting, like senior Emma González, and junior Cameron Kasky, who have been working tirelessly to make sure the national outrage in the wake of last month’s shooting translates to real action. But they are not mobilizing alone. According to their website, “March For Our Lives is created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar.” Gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety is also helping the students plan and coordinate the event.

Who are they partnering with?
March for Our Lives organizers have received significant funding from a number of celebrities like George and Amal Clooney, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Oprah Winfrey, all of whom pledged $500,000 for the rally. (See a full list of celebrities attending the rally here.)

Numerous other celebrities, including Kim Kardashian West, Justin Bieber, Bette Midler, and Debra Messing have also expressed their support on Twitter, calling on their followers to sign the march’s petition, and find a demonstration near them.

And there are grassroots supporters too. According to the Washington Post, teens from high schools around Washington, D.C., are opening their homes and organizing “a network of host families that live along the D.C. metro system that can host out-of-town students for the march.”

What do they hope to accomplish?
In addition to showing their support for victims of gun violence, march organizers hope the rally will inspire concrete legislative outcomes. In their Mission Statement, march organizers write:

School safety is not a political issue. There cannot be two sides to doing everything in our power to ensure the lives and futures of children who are at risk of dying when they should be learning, playing, and growing. The mission and focus of March For Our Lives is to demand that a comprehensive and effective bill be immediately brought before Congress to address these gun issues.

Participants are also coming together to register voters at various marches, to ensure that outrage today will translate to high turnout during November’s midterm elections.

Is this related to the National School Walkout?
Yes and no. The National School Walkout was put together by Women’s March organizers, who are called for students, teachers, administrators, and allies across the country to walk out of their classrooms for 17 minutes at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 — one minute for every victim of the Stoneman Douglas shooting. Although the two events are being organized by two different groups, their goals are the same. Per the National School Walkout’s website:

“Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship,” organizers wrote.

Students have also called for a National School Walkout on April 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting. No time has been set, but a Change.org petition has been signed over 80,000 times.

What is Stay Amped?
Last night, the night before the march, artists like Bebe Rexha, Lizzo, Fall Out Boy, and G-Easy will perform for Stay Amped, a concert to benefit Everytown for Gun Safety, and Gabby Giffords’s Courage to Fight Gun Violence. Tickets are between $100 and $175 and, according to the event’s website, “For every Super Excellent Seat purchased, a ticket will be donated to a student activist attending the March for Our Lives rally from Parkland and elsewhere in the country.”

You can buy tickets here.

How can I get involved?
If for whatever reason you can’t attend a rally today, there are other ways to help. You can donate to the GoFundMe page Stoneman Douglas students put together for the event (any money they receive beyond their $2 million goal will go to victims’ funds) or sponsor a student to travel to the march by contacting info@marchforourlives.com.

You can also sign the organizers’ petition, calling on Congress to pass legislation to address gun violence. Read it here.

And if you can go to a rally, get out and march with students and families across the country to tell lawmakers #NeverAgain.

Thanks to Madeleine Aggeler from 'The Cut' for that information and remember please that all resources for the event is listed here at the bottom of this post or you can go direct to the web site by clicking here!

Sign our (Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly) card thanking the student leaders organizing this weekend's March for Our Lives events across the country and we will make sure your message of support gets to them.

This weekend, on March 24, we will be joining students and families across the country as we March for Our Lives.

The truth of the matter is, our children shouldn't have to walk out of their schools or march in the streets to demand that their leaders in Congress keep them safe. But in doing so, these student leaders are showing more courage and conviction in their calls to stop gun violence than many members of Congress ever have.

They deserve our thanks.

So we say to all of the students in Parkland, Florida, who courageously stood before the cameras and demanded action, we heard you. The nation heard you.

But now we want to make sure they know that you hear them as well:

Sign our card thanking the student leaders organizing this weekend's March for Our Lives events across the country and we will make sure your message of support gets to them.

We are counting down the days until this Saturday, March 24. Student leaders are demonstrating the courage our nation needs to demand a safer future. We can't wait to see thousands of Americans join them in their call to action. That starts with signing our card.

March on,

Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly

Petitioning U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives

March for Our Lives: An Act to Protect & Save Your Children

In the tragic wake of the seventeen lives brutally cut short in Florida, politicians are telling us that now is not the time to talk about guns. March For Our Lives believes the time is now. Created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country, we will no longer risk our lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar.

We support the right of law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms, as set forth in the United States Constitution.

But with that right comes responsibility.
We call on all the adults in Congress elected to represent us, to pass legislation that will protect and save children from gun violence. Our elected officials MUST ACT by:

1. Passing a law to ban the sale of assault weapons like the ones used in Las Vegas, Orlando, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, Sandy Hook and, most recently, to kill 17 innocent people and injure more than a dozen others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Of the 10 deadliest shootings over the last decade, seven involved the use of assault weapons. No civilian should be able to access these weapons of war, which should be restricted for use by our military and law enforcement only. These guns have no other purpose than to fire as many bullets as possible and indiscriminately kill anything they are pointed at with terrifying speed.

2. Prohibiting the sale of high-capacity magazines such as the ones the shooter at our school—and so many other recent mass shootings used.

States that ban high-capacity magazines have half as many shootings involving three or more victims as states that allow them. Limiting the number of bullets a gun can discharge at one time will at least force any shooter to stop and reload, giving children a chance to escape.

3. Closing the loophole in our background check law that allows dangerous people who shouldn’t be allowed to purchase firearms to slip through the cracks and buy guns online or at gun shows.

97 percent of Americans support closing the current loopholes in our background check system. When Connecticut passed a law requiring background checks on all handgun sales, they saw a 40 percent reduction in gun homicides. 22 percent of gun sales in this country take place without a background check. That’s millions of guns that could be falling into dangerous hands. A background check should be required on every gun sale, no exceptions.

The children of this country can no longer go to school in fear that each day could be their last. Please sign our petition and demand a comprehensive and effective bill be immediately brought before Congress to address these gun issues. Click Here to sign!

2018

Gun violence and crime incidents are collected/validated from 2,500 sources daily – incidents and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.

1: Actual number of deaths and injuries
2: Number of INCIDENTS reported and verified

22,000 Annual Suicides not included on Daily Summary Ledger

Numbers on this table reflect a subset of all information
collected and will not add to 100% of incidents.

www.gunviolencearchive.org www.facebook.com/gunviolencearchive

Data Validated: March 24, 2018

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