Yes? No one could comprehend the devastating aftermath or how far this would reach or where this would go. They held up signs and spoke in real and raw terms about why the gun laws need to be changed immediately. We call BS. She has a question for Dana [Loesch]. Since the time of the Founding Fathers and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy. And I come here tonight with 39 years in law enforcement. And I quote: “When adults tell me I have the right to own a gun, all I can hear is my right to own a gun outweighs your student’s right to live. Contact your local congresspeople. The students who are dead, the students still in the hospital, the student now suffering PTSD, the students who had panic attacks during the vigil because the helicopters would not leave us alone, hovering over the school for 24 hours a day. Emma Gonzalez: “If all our ... Watch Gonzalez’s full speech here, and find the complete transcript below. Enter Emma Gonzalez. Fight for your lives before it's someone else's job.". LOESCH: I was a very politically active teenager and I'm on this stage as a result of that. Contact your local congresspeople. We call BS. Skip navigation! But, you just told this group of people that you are standing up for them. Thank you. I would like to have a conversation with her in 50 years once she gains the experience, the wisdom, and a true understanding of why and how this country was established. You took that opportunity away last year. And divided by the number of gunshot victims in the United States in the one and one-half months in 2018 alone, that comes out to being $5,800. Emma Gonzalez delivered a powerful speech at the “March for Our Lives” in Washington DC against gun violence on March 24, 2018. Now, I want to answer your question. All rights reserved. Do you believe that it should be harder to obtain the semi-automatic and— weapons and the modifications for these weapons to make them fully automatic like bump stocks? They say guns are just tools like knives and are as dangerous as cars. Here’s the transcript of Gonzalez’s full speech: “We haven’t already had a moment of silence in the House of Representatives, so I would like to have another one. And how about we stop blaming the victims for something that was the student’s fault, the fault of the people who let him buy the guns in the first place, those at the gun shows, the people who encouraged him to buy accessories for his guns to make them fully automatic, the people who didn’t take them away from him when they knew he expressed homicidal tendencies, and I am not talking about the FBI. Happens to the best of us. The students who are dead, the students still in the hospital, the student now suffering PTSD, the students who had panic attacks during the vigil because the helicopters would not leave us alone, hovering over the school for 24 hours a day. And their efforts seem to be affecting actual consideration of gun control reform amongst politicians, even in a state as pro-gun as Florida. We call BS. From his d, After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Vanity Fair cover reveal, the attacks from her critics were almost instantaneous. Read the full transcript of her speech right here at Rev.com. “Since the time that I came out here, it has been six minutes and 20 seconds,” she said. And those who did bore witness to a deeply emotional and powerful speech by Emma González, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. We have to be able, when police encounter someone, who is going through a mental illness. I’m talking about the neighbors who saw him outside holding guns. Second of all, oh, I had a thing I was going to say. This individual was nuts and I, nor the millions of people that I represent as a part of this organization, that I'm here speaking for, none of us support people who are crazy, who are a danger to themselves, who are a danger to others, getting their hands on a firearm. They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. In Florida, to buy a gun you do not need a permit, you do not need a gun license, and once you buy it you do not need to register it. Aside from the obligatory “thoughts and prayers” (and an appallingly self-serving tweet from President Trump), it seems like little will change in terms of U.S. gun control. We did, time and time again. If your money was as threatened as us, would your first thought be, how is this going to reflect on my campaign? We call BS. I’m talking about the people he lived with. That’s going to be Marjory Stoneman Douglas in that textbook and it’s going to be due to the tireless effort of the school board, the faculty members, the family members and most of all the students. In a little over six minutes 17 of our friends were taken from us, 15 were injured and everyone, absolutely everyone in the Douglas community was forever altered. In February of 2017, one year ago, President Trump repealed an Obama-era regulation that would have made it easier to block the sale of firearms to people with certain mental illnesses. Japan has never had a mass shooting. Gonzalez' original question asked Loesch if she — and, by extension, the NRA — would support making automatic and semi-automatic weapons more difficult to obtain, along with accessories like bump stocks that make guns even more efficient at killing. Yes, AOC Can Still Be A Democratic Socialist & Wear A $14,000 Sui... Is There A Moral Argument Against Voting? During the protracted silence, the assembled crowd joined her in silence, occasionally shouting words of support and chanting "never again!". Emma Gonzalez's Powerful Words At March For … Joaquin Oliver would never play basketball with Sam or Dylan. Enjoyed this speech? But instead we are up here standing together because if all our government and President can do is send thoughts and prayers, then it’s time for victims to be the change that we need to see. It is not federal law for states to report convictions to the NICS system. If you don’t do anything to prevent this from continuing to occur, that number of gunshot victims will go up and the number that they are worth will go down. I want to bring in right now Senior Emma Gonzalez. And in this case if you actively do nothing, people continually end up dead, so it’s time to start doing something. Here’s the transcript of Gonzalez’s full speech: “We haven’t already had a moment of silence in the House of Representatives, so I … Recently, thanks to ongoing attacks on mail-in ballots, long lines during ea, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been laser-focused on reaching as many voters as possible over the last few months — but she’s been especially active in the, Spooky season is here, and that’s not just because Halloween is this weekend. PLEASE keep this fire lit. AP Gov had about three debates this year. They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. They say tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. In February of 2017, one year ago, President Trump repealed an Obama-era regulation that would have made it easier to block the sale of firearms to people with certain mental illnesses. Delaney said he was diagnosed. OK, we did. Everyone who was there understands. — Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) January 20, 2017. And I understand you're standing up for the NRA, and I understand that's what you're supposed to do. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa was the sole sponsor on this bill that stops the FBI from performing background checks on people adjudicated to be mentally ill and now he’s stating for the record, ‘Well, it’s a shame the FBI isn’t doing background checks on these mentally ill people.’ Well, duh. On Friday, one of the officers involved in shooting 26-year-old Breonna Taylor announced that he has filed a lawsuit against her boyfriend Kenneth Walker. And we will be worthless to you. They say no laws could have prevented the hundreds of senseless tragedies that have occurred. I don’t need a psychologist and I don’t need to be a psychologist to know that repealing that regulation was a really dumb idea. We don't only have to wait— we shouldn't have to wait until they are a danger to themselves or someone else. And we will be worthless to you.”, She concluded her 11-minute speech by imploring the audience to register to vote and also call their congresspeople to “give them a piece of your mind.”. Instead of worrying about our AP Gov chapter 16 test, we have to be studying our notes to make sure that our arguments based on politics and political history are watertight. Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, addressed a gun control rally on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, days after a gunman entered her … So that answers your question, and they spoke about that before the president made a move and they spoke about that before Attorney General Jeff Sessions made an announcement about that, too. Audience: (02:09) Video Transcript. Is that how much these people are worth to you, Trump? LOESCH: Wait a second! She has a question. You know what would be a good way to act like it? I read something very powerful to me today. © Copyright 2020 St. Joseph Communications. We did, time and time again. Some discussions on the subject even occurred during the shooting while students were hiding in the closets. Since the time of the Founding Fathers and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy. We call BS. Emma Gonzalez: (06:36) LOESCH: Well, I think the ATF is deciding about bump stocks right now. You can shout me down when I'm finished, but let me answer Emma's question. The guns have changed but our laws have not. So Gonzalez stopped her and simply repeated her original question. You do not need a permit to carry a concealed rifle or shotgun. Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job. Number one— you're right, we have to take weapons out of the hands of people that suffer from mental illness. That’s all the time it took for 17 people to lose their lives. On Saturday, just days after the shooting, the students gathered for an anti-gun rally in Fort Lauderdale. If the President wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, I’m going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association. Every single person up here today, all these people should be home grieving. Everyone who has been touched by the cold grip of gun violence understands. When we’ve had our say with the government — and maybe the adults have gotten used to saying ‘it is what it is,’ but if us students have learned anything, it’s that if you don’t study, you will fail.

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