Posted on Feb 7, 2019
WATCH: In A Post-Parkland America, Teens Talk About Gun Culture
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On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. In the aftermath, led first by students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, teenagers around the country initiated an unprecedented wave of youth activism for gun control. Teenage voices from all sides of the issue weighed in, and in the months that followed, they helped reinvigorate one of the nation's longest-raging debates.
Beginning in March 2018, NPR sought out more than 15 teenagers from nine states and Washington, D.C., to document their relationship with guns. Everyone featured in the resulting film was 17 years old in 2018.
Most of these teens were seniors in high school. As they approached their graduations, they spoke from a variety of diverse backgrounds and perspectives — from sport shooters in the Midwest to a student planning to join the military in the Southwest; from a teenager in Washington, D.C., who lost his twin brother to gun violence to a young woman in Montana who followed the example of the teens from Parkland.
Beginning in March 2018, NPR sought out more than 15 teenagers from nine states and Washington, D.C., to document their relationship with guns. Everyone featured in the resulting film was 17 years old in 2018.
Most of these teens were seniors in high school. As they approached their graduations, they spoke from a variety of diverse backgrounds and perspectives — from sport shooters in the Midwest to a student planning to join the military in the Southwest; from a teenager in Washington, D.C., who lost his twin brother to gun violence to a young woman in Montana who followed the example of the teens from Parkland.
WATCH: In A Post-Parkland America, Teens Talk About Gun Culture
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Overall, not a bad clip. It has the liberal leaning language, but it does also show some of the gun owners side. I do not believe that the gun owning children were as articulate as we are used to, but they did let you into their lives with a gun. My only issue, seeing how I am very familiar with the Santa Fe shooting, is why no one, and I mean NO ONE brings up the mental health issue. We are always hearing about how some of these shooters have been identified as not being very nice, but yet they can continue on until they decide to kill a bunch of their classmates. The Florida shooter was flagged on many occasions, as well as the Santa Fe Texas shooter. If the kids don't start speaking out, like at Santa Fe, and the adults don't start doing something, like Florida, then I don't care what you do with guns, school slaughter will continue in our schools.
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