‘Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job’: Parkland student Emma Gonzalez sends a powerful message at the ‘March for Our Lives’ rally

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• Eighteen-year-old Emma Gonzalez, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, gave a powerful speech during the “March for Our Lives” rally in Washington, DC on Saturday.
• Gonzalez is a survivor of a mass shooting at her high school in Parkland, Florida that claimed 17 lives last month.
• “No one could comprehend the devastating aftermath or how far this would reach, or where this would go,” she said. “For those who still can’t comprehend because they refuse to, I’ll tell you where it went: right into the ground, six feet deep.”
• Gonzalez’s speech lasted 6 minutes and 20 seconds — the same length of time as the shooting.

Emma Gonzalez, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, took the audience by storm when she spoke at the “March for Our Lives” rally in Washington, DC on Saturday.

Gonzalez was in class at her school on February 14 when a gunman opened fire, killing 14 students and three staff members.

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