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How Did Emma Gonzalez Become the Face of Never Again

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González on February nineteen, 2018
Born

Emma González


(1999-11-11) November xi, 1999 (age 22) [1]

Florida, U.South.
Nationality American
Education Marjory Stoneman Douglas Loftier School
New College of Florida[2]
Occupation Activist · educatee
Years agile 2018–present

X González (born Emma González; November 11, 1999) is an American activist and advocate for gun control.[iii] [four] [v] As a high school senior they survived the February 2022 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida,[vi] the deadliest loftier school shooting in U.S. history, and in response co-founded the gun-control advocacy grouping Never Over again MSD.[7]

González gave a viral speech communication against gun violence, proclaiming "We call B.S." on the lack of action by politicians funded by the NRA.[eight] After, González connected to be an outspoken activist on gun command, making loftier-profile media appearances and helping organize the March for Our Lives. Speaking at the demonstration, González led a moment of silence for the victims of the massacre; they stood on stage for six minutes, which they observed was the length of the shooting spree itself.

González was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018. [nine]

Early life and educational activity

González was raised in Parkland, Florida; a suburb of the Miami metropolitan area.[10] Their female parent is a mathematics tutor and their father is a cybersecurity chaser[eleven] who immigrated from Republic of cuba to New York City in 1968.[ten] [12] They take two older siblings.[10]

González graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the spring of 2018. They served as the president of its gay–straight alliance.[10] In loftier school, González was also the tracking team leader on Project Aquila, a mission to send a schoolhouse-made weather balloon "to the border of space"; the project was documented by fellow educatee David Hogg.[xiii] [xiv] They savour creative writing and astronomy simply not mathematics.[10]

On the solar day of the shooting, González was in the auditorium with dozens of other students when the fire alarm went off. They attempted to exit through the hallway, but were told to take cover and took refuge back in the auditorium, where they were held for two hours until police allow students out.[ten]

As of 2018, González was currently studying at New College of Florida.[fifteen]

Advocacy

González speaks at the Rally to Support Firearm Safety Legislation in Fort Lauderdale, February 17, 2018.

"The people in the government who are voted into power are lying to usa ... And us kids seem to be the only ones who find and are prepared to call B.S."[half-dozen]

"We Phone call B.S." speech communication at the Rally to Support Firearm Safety Legislation

González and David Hogg attend the Rally to Support Firearm Safety Legislation in Fort Lauderdale on Feb 17, 2018.

On February 17, 2018, González gave an 11-minute speech in front of the Broward County Courthouse at a gun control rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[4] The speech was in reaction to the Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhouse shooting, three days previously, during which a gunman had killed 17 and severely injured many more.[3]

In the speech they pledged to work with their peers to pressure lawmakers to modify the law.[6] "We are going to be the terminal mass shooting," González proclaimed. "That'south going to be Marjory Stoneman Douglas in that textbook, and information technology's all going to be due to the tireless efforts of the schoolhouse lath, the faculty members, the family members and most importantly the students." The oral communication notably featured a telephone call and response: "We phone call B.S.," in response to gun laws, calling for advocacy and empowering immature people to speak out against schoolhouse shootings.[16] [17] The speech then went viral.[3] [11] [eighteen] [19] According to The Washington Post, González'southward spoken communication became allegorical of the "new strain of furious advocacy" that sprang upwards immediately afterward the shooting.[iii]

In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, González said they felt their bulletin would resonate through repetition. "I knew I would become my job done properly at that rally if I got people chanting something. And I idea 'We call B.S.' has iv syllables, that's good, I'll use that. I didn't want to say the bodily curse words... this message doesn't demand to be thought of in a negative style at all."[18]

A recording of González delivering a line in the speech communication was sampled as the intro for Madonna'south "I Rise", released in May 2019.[twenty]

Subsequent activism and media appearances

They and other survivors spoke with Florida state legislators in Tallahassee on Feb xx, 2018. The students watched the legislature vote downward debate on an existing gun control bill.

The students also spoke at an internationally televised town hall hosted by CNN on Feb 21, 2018.[11] González and others criticized the National Burglarize Association (NRA) as well as politicians who accept money from it, equally being complicit in the shootings, and stated that "y'all're either funding the killers, or y'all're continuing with the children."[21]

At the town hall, González pressed an NRA representative to analyze their position on guns.[22] "Dana Loesch, I want yous to know that we will back up your ii children in the manner that you volition not," González said at the boondocks hall. "The shooter at our schoolhouse obtained weapons that he used on u.s.a. legally. Do you believe that it should be harder to obtain the semi-automatic and... the modifications for these weapons to make them fully automated like bump stocks?" Loesch answered González by arguing that mentally ill people shouldn't take access to weapons. González interjected and noted that they hadn't answered their question. "I retrieve I'chiliad gonna interrupt you real quick and remind you lot that the question is actually, practise y'all believe it should be harder to obtain these semi-automatic weapons and modifications to brand them fully automated, such as bump stocks?"[22] Soon later their viral speech and high-profile media appearances, González joined Twitter and acquired more than than 1 million followers within a bridge of less than ten days.[19] [23]

González continued to speak out against gun violence. Glamour Magazine called González "the face of the #NeverAgain movement" and "a recognizable icon"[24] while The Washington Post chosen their "La nueva cara of Florida Latinx" ("The new face of Florida Latinx") and drew comparisons to the revolutionary José Martí.[25] NBC News chosen their "one of the most visible student activists to emerge from the shooting..."[26] In a nationally televised interview on 60 Minutes, González described the idea of arming teachers in classrooms with guns as "stupid."[27] In March 2018, González was on the cover of Time magazine along with boyfriend activists Jaclyn Corin, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, and Alex Wind.[28] That aforementioned month they were profiled by French republic 24.[29]

Protesters react as González remains silent as part of their spoken communication at the March for Our Lives on March 24, 2018.

Speech at March for Our Lives

González and other students, including swain Parkland survivors Hogg, Kasky, and Sarah Chadwick, organized and participated in the nationwide March for Our Lives protest on March 24, 2018, with a focus on speakers and a march in Washington, DC.[30] González spoke for vi minutes, the length of time of the Parkland shooting, and paid tribute to the victims by mentioning each one by name and giving examples of things they would never again be able to practise. They followed this by several minutes of silence.[31] [32] González was interviewed on MSNBC at the march, stating people needed to "empathize rather than feel apathy" and calling for young people to annals to vote.[33]

New laws

In March 2018, the Florida Legislature passed a bill titled the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Condom Act. It raises the minimum age for buying firearms to 21, establishes waiting periods and background checks, provides a program for the arming of some teachers and the hiring of schoolhouse constabulary, bans crash-land stocks, and bars potentially tearing or mentally unhealthy people arrested under certain laws from possessing guns. In all, the law allocates effectually $400 one thousand thousand for implementation.[34] Rick Scott signed the pecker into law on March ix. The governor commented, "To the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas Loftier School, you lot made your voices heard. Yous didn't let up and yous fought until there was alter."[35]

Standing advocacy

In May 2022 González met with James Shaw Jr., a man who prevented farther bloodshed at a mass shooting in a Waffle House eating place by rushing the attacker and taking away his AR-xv burglarize and saving more lives; both Shaw and González described each other as heroes.[36]

Attacks and conspiracy theories

González was attacked for their Fort Lauderdale spoken communication by many from the political right wing of American politics and press.[37] [38] They accept also faced derogatory comments made by internet trolls about their sexual orientation, short hair, and peel colour.[39] They were verbally attacked by Leslie Gibson, then the Republican candidate running unopposed for the Maine legislature and lifetime NRA fellow member, who referred to them equally a "skinhead lesbian", whereupon 28-yr-sometime Eryn Gilchrist filed papers to run against him, thus providing an opponent;[40] [41] Republican old state Senator Thomas Martin, Jr., who said that Gibson's remarks did not represent the Maine Republican Party, and that he planned to contact the survivors to commend their courage, also filed to run for the seat. A few days after Gibson himself dropped out of the race.[42] [43]

González was the target of many right-wing conspiracy theories and hoaxes since the shooting.[44] Conspiracy theorists have falsely accused the students, including González, of being crisis actors. Benjamin Kelly, an aide to Florida state Representative Shawn Harrison (R-63), was fired later making such accusations.[37] [45] Donald Trump Jr. faced criticism for appearing to support the crunch histrion accusations.[46] The conspiracy theories spread about González and other Parkland survivors were named PolitiFact's 2022 Prevarication of the Yr.[47]

Following their highly publicized speech at the March for Our Lives, pro-gun activists doctored simulated photos and video showing González ripping up a copy of the United States Constitution, spreading them widely on internet forums and social media. Snopes.com observed that the video was in fact a digitally manipulated Teen Vogue video of them trigger-happy upwards shooting range targets.[48] Adam Baldwin dedicated spreading the fake video, saying information technology was "political satire."[49]

Attacks by Steve King and response

Republican congressman Steve King attacked González for wearing a Cuban flag patch on their jacket during their spoken language, maxim in a post on Facebook, "This is how you look when y'all claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Castilian and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison army camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense."[50] The Cuban flag worn by González was adopted in 1902, l years earlier the communist take over, and has been used by anti-Castro Cuban exiles as a symbol of patriotism.[51] One of the survivors of the Orlando nightclub shooting, Brandon Wolf, responded to King proverb "When information technology was my community, where were you? When it was Sandy Hook? Columbine? Were you lot on the sideline mocking those communities too? Did you question someone identifying every bit a female parent? Did you question whether people like me were crisis actors?" and "Emma stood for 6 mins and 20 seconds to honor the lives of 17 gone too before long. The to the lowest degree you could practice is close your privileged, ineffective trap for half-dozen seconds to hear someone else's perspective."[51] In an interview with the New Ceremonious Rights Movement, Wolf likewise pointed out that Rex keeps a Confederate flag on his desk-bound.[52]

King's comments generated tearing condemnation from Wolf, González, and other members of Never Once again MSD. In June 2018, as office of the March for Our Lives' "Road to Modify" bout, gun control advocates and members of Never Again MSD arrived at King'due south function in Sioux City to protest against King. Protesters and gun control advocates berated King for his history of racially charged statements and attacks; González personally denounced King and defendant him of racism. King largely ignored the protests.[53] [54] [ why? ]

Personal life

González is bisexual[10] and uses they/them pronouns.[55] Co-ordinate to Faddy, their buzz cut is not a reaction to the schoolhouse shooting, but rather to Florida's climate.[56] "People asked me, 'Are you taking a feminist stand?' No, I wasn't. It'southward Florida. Hair is simply an actress sweater I'm forced to wearable," González recalled. "I fifty-fifty made a PowerPoint presentation to convince my parents to allow me shave my head, and it worked."[13] In May 2021, González appear the usage of a new personal name, Ten, citing dissociation with their previous personal name and feminine pronouns.[57] [58]

Works

  • "Parkland Educatee Emma González Opens Upward About Her Fight for Gun Control". Harper'south Boutique. February 26, 2018.
  • "Opinion: A Immature Activist's Advice: Vote, Shave Your Caput and Cry Whenever Y'all Demand To". The New York Times. October 5, 2018.
  • "Emma González on Why This Generation Needs Gun Command". Teen Vogue. March 23, 2018.

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