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Lots of people are helping David Hogg’s cause. This is a big cause that needs a lot of people's help. luckily he has a ton of people on his side. This is a good thing that lots of people are helping.

It is a problome that needs a big amount of People to help end it this is a sad problem that the world has.

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https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/articles-and-essays/youth-in-the-civil-rights-movement/

Many college
student activists sacrificed or postponed their formal education but they were
also picking up practical skills that would shape their later careers.

‘’MichaelThelwell’’ remembers his
time as a student activist with the Nonviolent Action Groups an organization
never officially recognized by Howard University and a precursor to the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC “I don’t think any of us got to Howard
with any extensive training in radical political activism.
Many of them went
on to great success as lawyers, professors, politicians and leaders of their
own communities and other social justice movements. They joined the struggle to
not only shape their own futures, but to also open the possibilities of a more
just world for the generations that came behind them.

This shows how much
teen activism means an madders in the world. Teen activism is people who stand up to bad things like gun violence and more. As the impacts of climate change intensify with each passing year, more and more young people are joining the movement for positive change. By leading the discussion around climate change, they are also spreading awareness and motivating others to take action.

Teen Activism is important because it really shows that everyone has a voice activists can change the world by solving a big problem like bullying or environmentally problems. Activists can introduce big problems that we have never solved, such as child hunger, homelessness, and education. Once a foundation or cause is started, an activist works to get more people to agree with them by using resources to spread their ideas. Malala for example, has had such an impact on America and so many other countries when she was shot, so many people cared. As a result,  many people have donated to her foundation. The Malala fund raised 3 million dollars in just two months she has raised more than 10 million dollars to her fund. This shows that her foundation is one that cannot be stopped.

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David Hogg
David Hogg was a kid that did not really know what a school shooting was until his school got shot up. He then became a teen activist to help stop the school shooting rates to stop going up. David Hogg ended up being the biggest youth activist for school shooting. This is a big deal for the all the kids that might have gotten shoot up he helped save them. David is a college student pashonet for his cause. He became a youth activist for school shooting when his school was shot up at 11:30 in the morning the shooter entered on the south wing of the high school. The school got shot up on fed 14 2018. This made him a deeply pashonet person about this topic.

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Will he go to college next year? ‘’I don’t feel comfortable going to college until we have at least 50 million dollars to fund gun violence research annually’’

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n 1 February 1960, 17-year-old Franklin McCain and three black friends went to the whites-only counter at Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina and took a seat. The humiliation of growing up black in the south had left the teenage McCain contemplating suicide. Having spent the previous night chastising the older generation for their failure to effectively confront segregation, the four young men had talked themselves into an act that was brave, reckless, exhilarating and, ultimately, liberating.

"We wanted to go beyond what our parents had done," McCain told me almost four decades later. "The worst thing that could happen was that the Ku Klux Klan could kill us ... but I had no concern for my personal safety. The day I sat at that counter, I had the most tremendous feeling of elation and celebration. I felt that, in this life, nothing else mattered ... If there's a heaven, I got there for a few minutes. I just felt you can't touch me, you can't hurt me. There's no other experience like it."

Listening to David Hogg, the 18-year-old former high school student who became an internationally known gun-control campaigner after a gunman shot dead 17 students and staff and injured 17 others at his school in Parkland, Florida, reminds me of McCain's account of his protest. Fearless, relentless, passionate, earnest and old beyond his years yet brimming with youthful intensity. A teenager who, having already entertained his own mortality, has become recklessly audacious and singlemindedly driven.

Will he go to college next year? "I don't feel comfortable going to college until we have at least $50m to fund gun violence research annually," he says. Has he had time to grieve? "I can't sit back and grieve while so many people are dying." What's the difference between the gun control efforts he is involved in and previous attempts that have not succeeded? "We are young and we are not going to leave it to a generation of corrupt politicians to decide our future."

Hogg has the interview manner of a person who is more used to answering questions than listening to them. It would be easy to lampoon him. But it would also be ungenerous. He is young, his sister lost four of her friends in the shooting, and he was unexpectedly thrust into the public eye. He is also dyslexic and didn't learn to read until he was nine. His mother told New York magazine that the challenges of those early years account for his declarative manner. "He gets absorbed in his words because he's been doubted so much," she says. "He needs to overcompensate when he's arguing."

When I ask what side of his personality the media portrayals fail to catch he passes the phone to his two friends. "There's a goofball side of him," says one. "They portray him as a stern hard-arse - and he is sometimes. But that's not who he is all the time."

Hogg at a youth march in Massachusetts in August. Photograph: Katherine Taylor/EPA

At the beginning of the year, he wanted to be a journalist or an aerospace engineer. For the past eight months, thanks to a tragedy not of his making, he has become a high-profile figure in a media culture where certainty is valued far more than clarity or nuance. He was applying for colleges. Now he is being offered six- or seven-figure salaries by media outlets and nonprofit organisations and receiving invitations for paid speaking gigs at universities that rejected him.

Since he started speaking out about gun control, he has been the subject of several threats on his life and, at times, has been accompanied by a security detail. (Facts he would rather not discuss.)

Hogg divides his short life into before the shooting and after. Before: a debate team geek with a handful of friends. "I was not popular at all and I wasn't an extrovert. And I'm still not: I'm an introvert, I like to keep to myself." After: a constant media presence and tireless campaigner with more than 900,000 Twitter followers.

That transformative moment lasted just a few minutes. Nicholas Cruz, 19, arrived at the Stoneman Douglas high school at 2.19pm with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and several magazines and soon started shooting indiscriminately. The shooting lasted six minutes. Before the hour was out, Cruz had left the school with fleeing students. He went to Walmart, Subway and McDonald's.

The first time many of his fellow students met Hogg, the shooter was still at large and Hogg's angular face was lit as though for a Hitchcock movie: a wide-eyed glare peering from a dark place. He had heard the gunfire and been herded, with several other students, into what looks like an unlit cupboard to hide. In the midst of this terror, he narrates the scene on his phone to an audience that has yet to exist. "Right now, we're in a school," he whispers, affecting the cadence of a war reporter. "An active shooter. It's not a drill." He goes on to interview fellow students before launching a political broadside: "The fact that school shootings have happened so much to the point that we need drills for them almost as much as fire drills is unacceptable. I call on legislators of this country to take action and stop this from happening."

For Hogg, the shift to advocacy was not simply immediate, it was simultaneous. He went to school a nerd and turned himself a national advocate as the event was happening. A few days later, while the political class was still talking "thoughts and prayers", his classmate Emma Gonzalez "called BS" on the entire establishment regarding gun control. Hogg and Gonzalez knew each other from astronomy club, where they worked together the year before on an experimental weather balloon. The vehemence with which they, and other students, protested against lax gun laws in the immediate wake of the shooting roused a dormant constituency.

When reporting for my book about all the children and teens shot dead in one random day in the US, I asked each family who lost a child an open-ended question: what did they think had made the tragedy possible? Not one mentioned guns. When I asked the more leading question, of what they thought about guns, most had an opinion: they were too easily accessible. They just didn't think anything could be done about it. In the few weeks after Parkland, the learned hopelessness around the prospect of gun control seemed to have been replaced by a sense of urgency, militancy and indignation that had been sorely lacking. Hogg was not yet a teenager when the shootings at Sandy Hook happened in 2012. Neither he, nor his fellow students, had yet learned to be hopeless.

For the first time we heard the witnesses and the victims of the mass murder tell their own story

Hogg says one of the key reasons the shootings at Parkland produced a broader and bigger response than other school mass shootings was timing and agency. "We spoke up immediately after the shooting," he says. "For the first time we heard the witnesses and the victims of the mass murder tell their own story. We spoke out against it in a particular way."

The other, he says, is that those who were affected were relatively affluent and mostly white. "If our school had been in a different zip code, we wouldn't have got the same coverage." Hogg's father was an FBI agent (and is a Republican) and his mother (a Democrat) is a teacher. How does he navigate the fact that he has become a prominent advocate in a cause that has a disproportionate impact on black and brown communities living in poverty? "I acknowledge it, in the first place," he says. "I don't know what it's like to be discriminated against. I can empathise, but I can't sympathise. So then I, literally and metaphorically, hand over the mic to someone who does."

The uncompromising rhetoric after Parkland triggered a wave of protests. There were school walk outs that involved millions of students and die-ins outside the White House and elsewhere. Hogg was one of the speakers on March for Our Lives, a demonstration in Washington called by another Parkland student - the third-biggest demonstration in US history - that took place less than six months after the shooting.

The protest figureheads also drew significant opposition. Hogg and some of his fellow student leaders were accused, by the rightwing echo chamber, of being "crisis actors" - trained dramatists putting on a show for the cameras for political purposes. A rumour raced through the internet claiming that Hogg wasn't even at the school when the shooting happened and that the video he put together was a fake.

Days after March for Our Lives, his public profile soared further as he faced down the ultra-conservative Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham, who mocked Hogg on Twitter after he was rejected by four colleges. Hogg hit back, calling on advertisers to boycott Ingraham's show. Advertisers duly pulled out. Ingraham apologised. Hogg refused to accept her apology. The advertisers have stayed away - and her ratings have gone up.

From then until now, Hogg has barely stopped. He led a mass die-in at a supermarket chain that contributed to a Florida gubernatorial candidate who took money from the National Rifle Association (NRA). Over the summer, some survivors from Stoneman Douglas took a bus tour across the country - 75 cities over two months - in a bid to register young voters.

Hogg believes that the results in the recent US midterms, where he cast his first vote in a general election, speak for themselves. "We had the largest youth turnout in history," he says. "We promoted youth engagement all over and had one of the largest protests in American history." It is true that November saw a record number of young people vote in a midterm election. But it's also true that, at around 31%, the number still lagged significantly behind all other age groups. At the time of writing, there have been 296 mass shootings - where more than one person was killed or wounded - since Parkland, 25 of which have been in Florida. And gun policy was the fourth most important issue for voters (after healthcare, immigration and the economy) even though there was a mass shooting in a synagogue 10 days before polling day. For all the hard work the activists had put into their home state, it wasn't enough to tip the balance in Florida, where voters sent one gun-loving Republican to the Senate and another to the governor's mansion. Hogg shifts register from advocate to politician, advising against impatience and frustration. "Change takes a lot of time," he says. "We are not always going to be 100% successful."

Hogg addresses protesters at a March for Your Lives rally outside the headquarters of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson. Photograph: Steven Senne/AP

He believes the primary, if not sole, obstacle to change has been the main gun lobby, the NRA. The gun-control movement was cowered by them, he says. "Some [gun-control] organisations wouldn't even talk about the NRA because they were afraid," he says. "Democrats and Republicans were afraid of the NRA. We have to make it so that it pays for you to stand against the NRA and that you pay if you stand with the NRA."

Meanwhile, the population at large has been duped by them, he says. "In the 50s, two thirds of Americans thought having a gun in your house made you less safe. Now, two thirds think it makes you more safe. That's NRA propaganda. Their success has been in convincing people that they have no power to change anything."

He believes the movement's main task is not so much to change people's minds as to make them hear and understand the case they are making. "They don't understand what we stand for. They think we want to take away their guns, and we are not advocating taking guns away. A majority of people already believe in gun reform."

That's true. And yet Hogg's reasoning seems to assign a little too much credit to the NRA and too little to the agency of American people. In 2013, after Sandy Hook, polling showed gun owners were almost twice as likely as non-gun owners to have contacted a public official about gun policy, and almost three times as likely to have donated to a group that takes a position on the issue. When the national narrative is underpinned by self-reliance, rugged individualism, masculinity, conquering, dominating, force and power, the NRA may simply be better positioned to tap into attachment to mythologies than any logical argument about "common-sense gun reform" made by the other side.

On the evening of the Parkland shooting, before the Twitter spat, Hogg went on Ingraham's show. Just as she was drawing his segment to an end, he interjected: "Can I say one more thing to the audience? I don't want this just to be another mass shooting. I don't want this to be something that people forget."

I put it to him that Parkland has not been forgotten. But that it has perhaps become another mass shooting that people remember, like Newtown or Columbine - a punctuation point in a story that doesn't change. How is this possible? "People forget and they move on," he says. "It says a lot about our country."

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What happened next? How teenage shooting survivor David Hogg became a political leader

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n 1 February 1960, 17-year-old Franklin McCain and three black friends went to the whites-only counter at Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina and took a seat. The humiliation of growing up black in the south had left the teenage McCain contemplating suicide.

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David Hogg is a teen activist that is fighting for the people to not have people to have assault weaponry. David Hogg is a young man the suffered him self a school shooting. He was deeply affected and started to protest called march for our lives. The first march of march for lives in 2018 on march 4th. He was able to change 21 laws across the U.S.A.

He is a very passionate protester to stop people from shooting up schools. He is facing some very difficult people that do not agree with him. He is trying to make a change but he has to take the next step to go to the government to stop the school shootings. If he wants to make a big change he has to make his protests bigger and better. He is making a differers still.

Hogg is changing to world in a great way. He made many schools a safer environment for children in many schools and grades. He is still changing the U.S.A  he is a strong leader for the youth activist generation. He is a person that is determined to stop school shootings. He is passionate to stop the average person to own a assault weapons.

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So David Hogg does a 23 year old that lives in Florida and he grew up in Florida and he had lots of friends and David hogs was a good kid and lots of people like him in the school he went to wasVirginia Commonwealth University

When David Hogg was a teen at his school there was a school shooting and there was 17. People killed, and the gun man was shot and murdered. And he’s protesting for peoples lives And raising money for gun control
And raising money for gun control

Right now in his life, he still protesting and trying to reach a goal to $50 million to gun control so people could stop killing people in school and outside of school in public and when he was in school tons of his friends were shot Dead from school shooting and he is still protesting to this day and sharing stories

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David hoggs is a 23 year old male and he was born is April 12 2000 and And grew up in he did the march for peoples lives, and for gun control to stop it in march 4 2018 and basically what David Hogg’s is doing is protesting for peoples lives and gun control so then people could stop dying from school shootings and he had lots of friends that got killed from school shootings, which made him sad, so this is why he started to protest

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He is trying to stop the ability to own a gun because he believes that people should not be able to assault someone

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Teen activism, they support protecting people and the earth. They activis agents many stuff like women’s rights, school school shootings, and more.

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Greta and Malala get the headlines, but for every young leader pictured on a magazine cover, thousands more are working tirelessly for causes like climate justice, racial and gender equality, LGBTQ rights, and economic change.

That's the message from Jessica Taft, a leading scholar on youth activism who says today's young leaders are building on the legacy of their predecessors who helped desegregate the South, reformed education in Chile, and won rights for working youth in Bolivia.

"Around the world, we are seeing children and youth engage as social, political, and economic actors, demonstrating their capacity to help make social change," said Taft, an associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. "Adults make a lot of assumptions about children and what they're capable of, and those assumptions are often quite false."

Taft, the author of Rebel Girls and the new book The Kids Are in Charge: Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working Children, spoke days before the Sept. 20 global, youth-led climate strike. She has spent more than a decade studying children's rights and intergenerational activism.

"Youth, given the opportunity to work alongside adults who are willing to manage their own power, can lead activist communities and organizations," she said. "To not include them is anti-democratic. They deserve to be listened to, to be seen as collaborators and treated as equals."

Recent decades have seen children and youth invited to participate in civic and political activities through schools and municipal children's councils, said Taft. But participating in adult-driven institutions is distinct from what has been unfolding in Peru for 40 years. As Taft details in The Kids Are in Charge, Peru is home to a "horizontal," child-led movement of about 10,000 young people ages 8-16.

The Movement of Working Children is focused on recognizing children as social, political, and economic contributors who deserve respect, dignity, and inclusion. "The goal is to build children's leadership and participation in social movements," said Taft, clarifying that it's not only about children's work. "This organization provides on-the-ground support for kids to develop their capacity to address issues in their communities."

Children and youth have organized around the need for safe play spaces, like public parks, and for recognition of children's contributions to family enterprises, such as farms, market stalls, and helping with child care and cooking, said Taft. "The reality is children do meaningful work, much of it in safe and dignified conditions, and the image of the child worker needs to be more expansive," she said.

Other issues include reproductive health rights, climate and environmental issues, and building a gender-inclusive curriculum for schools. The youngest participants are about 8 years old, while regional leaders typically emerge at about 12 years old; national leaders are usually about 14, said Taft.

"I've seen 12-year-olds facilitate meetings better than 35-year-olds," she said. "We need to decouple experience and age. Sometimes the youngest kids get listened to the most."

By contrast, children in the United States don't see themselves as having rights, said Taft, who attributes that in part to what she calls "social amnesia" that has wiped away the memory of the youth who led the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins, the 1968 East L.A. walkouts, and the undocumented youth movement that led to the creation of DACA.

"Developmental psychologists tell us that how people develop depends on the social, cultural, and political contexts of where they're developing," she said. "The exclusion of children from political engagement isn't inevitable. It's a product of cultural assumptions about childhood and adulthood."

The United States remains the only eligible country that has failed to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which marks its 30th anniversary in November, noted Taft. "The Convention has given children in other countries the ability to make demands on their schools and their governments," said Taft. "Here, we talk about children as objects of protection rather than people with rights."

However, youth in the United States are organizing around causes they believe in, including high-profile efforts like the Sept. 20 international climate strike, the campaign for gun control being led by survivors of the Parkland high school shooting, and a campaign to lower the voting age to 16 in San Francisco. These youth leaders are pushing back on the arbitrary quality of age-based criteria for political involvement, said Taft.

"There is a stubborn resistance to treating young people's political activism as normal, but the truth is that it's neither extraordinary nor exceptional," she said. "Children and youth are not on the sidelines. They are protagonists in the fight for their rights and their well being."

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Greta and Malala get the headlines, but Jessica Taft says that for every young leader pictured on a magazine cover, thousands more are working tirelessly for causes like climate justice, racial and gender equality, LGBTQ rights, and economic change.

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He became more interested in school shootings because he lost many of his friend to the school shootings and he wants to stop of at lest slow the rates to a stop.

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.the gun man at the school shooting David hogg was at the gun man killed 17 people in the school

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He marched for peoples life in Washington DC and in march 4 2018

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People support taking down gun vilense because they believe they should keep people safe by activist agents gun vilense.

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Gun control activist David Hogg said in a Fox News op-ed Friday that he feels attitudes on gun control are "changing for what feels like the first time" following multiple high-profile mass shootings in the past month.

Hogg, who survived the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., said more gun owners and former gun industry executives are speaking out in favor of reform because shootings like the one at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 children and two adults "do not reflect their values." Hogg urged readers to participate in one of the more than 450 marches that March For Our Lives, a movement that Hogg co-founded to support gun control legislation, is holding Saturday following the Uvalde shooting.

His op-ed comes as a bipartisan group of senators is working to reach a deal on gun legislation.

Some of the reforms that Democrats and gun control advocates have called for, such as instituting universal background checks nationwide, appear unlikely to pass in the evenly divided upper chamber, but senators have expressed optimism at reaching an agreement on a narrower bill. Negotiators are considering providing more money to address mental health and incentivizing states to pass red flag laws, which allow those around an individual to petition for their firearms to be temporarily removed if they might pose a threat to themselves or others.

Hogg previously marched in Washington with March For Our Lives in 2018 following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 of his classmates and school staff members. He said in his op-ed that there have been many additional incidents since then, giving him "countless reasons" to give up.

But he said the outcome of activists' efforts must be different this time, and "responsible citizens" are needed to ensure it is different.

"I know there are millions of you who want to do the right thing. You are being compelled to speak out. Some of you have told me personally that it's because you are 'tired of seeing children being slaughtered,'" Hogg said.

Hogg spoke with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) earlier this week about achieving "anything" on the issue of gun violence. Murkowski said Congress owes "some steps here" on the issue and there is work to be done.

He said in the op-ed that those involved in the issue should follow a similar approach to the one used to cut down cigarette use - addressing what causes someone to want guns and understanding how they get them.

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"No law is perfect, but if we focus on stopping the process of radicalization to violence, we can reduce gun deaths by half over the next decade," he said. "And we need to act now."

Hogg said no party or organization is his enemy, only gun violence. He said he and gun rights advocates might disagree on a lot, but they also agree on a lot.

"The problem is that we don't listen to each other long enough to find out," he said. "What we both can't accept is the idea that we can't do anything to stop the murder of children. We can."

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David Hogg: Attitudes on gun control 'changing for what feels like the first time'

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Gun control activist David Hogg said in a Fox News op-ed Friday that he feels attitudes on gun control are "changing for what feels like the first time" following multiple high-profile mass shootings in the past month. Hogg, who survived the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., said more gun owners...

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David is 23 years old

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He did the march for our lives in march 4 2018

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Teen activism is teens trying to chang the world and they also provent school shootings, women’s rites, and much more.

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So David hoggs is trying to stop school shootings by protesting the gun law and gun control so people have to stop school shootings

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Lots of people follow hoggs and it is a good thing he is doing but we did not find any thing that people don’t support it
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March For Our Lives activist David Hogg urges students to help end gun violence

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As co-founder of the largest gun reform movement in U.S. history, March for Our Lives, Hogg has become one of the most persuasive voices of his generation. Passionate in his advocacy to end gun violence, Hogg's mission of increasing voter participation, civic engagement and activism embraces a range of issues.

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Colin Noir is one of the many people that do not support David Hogg because David Hogg wants to make some laws and wants to make it illegal to own a form of protection.  Most people that do not support him describe him as a 12 year old kid in his dads suite.

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he’s trying to stop school sooting and gun violents for people.
There has been around 21 school shootings in the USA.