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911, What's your emergency? Please help us, please 

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help us, somebody. 

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A shooter a shooter. Is anybody injured? Yes, yes. A lot 

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of bodies. Just please help. Please [ sobbing ] Right 

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after February 14 A whole community of people were 

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hurting, a whole community of people didn't know what 

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to say, didn't know what to do, nor should hey have, 

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this is an unfathomable thing. [ MUSIC ] 

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We don't want your thoughts and prayers, okay, stop 

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sending those, that's enough, we are the people who 

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instantly said this can be prevented, this should have 

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been prevented and this has been prevented in other 

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countries My name is Jaclyn Corin, I'm 17. 

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I'm Alex Wind, I'm 17. I'm Emma Gonzalez. I'm 18 

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years old. I can vote. I'm David Hogg. I'm 17 

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years old. My name is Cameron Kasky. I'm 17 and I'm 

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a junior member of the Never Again MSD Movement, 

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which started in my living Sitting room. Today we take 

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to the streets in over 800 marches around the globe 

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and demand common sense gun laws. 

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[ UNKNOWN ] Today is the 

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beginning of a bright new future 

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for this country. And if you think today is good Just wait 

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for tomorrow. [ APPLAUSE ] President Trump is not 

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going to be able to walk away from The March For Our 

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Lives. Nobody is going to be able to walk away. Who 

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are we? MSE! Who are we? Teenagers know 

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this situation because we experience this first- hand. 

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The people in the whitehouse don't know what it feels 

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like to be trapped in a closet, fearing For your life, 

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because you don't know whether the knocks you hear 

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outside are police or a shooter. People are inspired by 

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us because we're their age. We're just like them, we 

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could be friends with them if we went to their schools, 

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and they're seeing us on TV and speaking up on social 

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media. Vote them out. Vote them out. We are here to 

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remind American citizens that, Their lawmakers work 

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for them, and that they can demand change. And when 

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it comes to gun violence and gun laws, these politicians 

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are going to have to understand that it's not about 

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their personal views anymore. We voted you into office 

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because you were going to keep our best interests at 

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heart, and you did not. So this is the time to change 

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that [ APPLAUSE ] 

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Imagine a country that allows its children to be 

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slaughtered and does nothing about it. That doesn't 

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sound like America. [ MUSIC ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ]