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American activist and gun control advocate

X González
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González on February 19, 2018
Born

Emma González


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

Florida, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
New College of Florida[2]
Occupation Activist · student
Years active 2018–nowadays

Ten González (born Emma González; November eleven, 1999) is an American activist and abet for gun control.[iii] [4] [5] As a loftier schoolhouse senior they survived the February 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida,[6] and in response co-founded the gun-control advancement grouping Never Once more MSD.[vii]

González gave a viral spoken communication against gun violence, proclaiming "We call B.S." on the lack of activity past politicians funded past the NRA.[8] Afterwards, González continued to be an outspoken activist on gun command, making high-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 phase for vi minutes, which they observed was the length of the shooting spree itself.

González was included in Time mag's 100 Nearly Influential People of 2018. [9]

Early life and instruction

González was raised in Parkland, Florida; a suburb of the Miami metropolitan area.[10] Their mother is a mathematics tutor and their father is a cybersecurity chaser[11] who immigrated from Republic of cuba to New York Urban center in 1968.[ten] [12] They have two older siblings.[ten]

González graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the spring of 2018. They served as the president of its gay–straight alliance.[x] In high school, González was also the tracking team leader on Project Aquila, a mission to ship a school-made weather condition balloon "to the edge of infinite"; the project was documented by fellow student David Hogg.[xiii] [xiv] They enjoy creative writing and astronomy merely non mathematics.[10]

On the mean 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 dorsum in the auditorium, where they were held for two hours until police let students out.[x]

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

Advocacy

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

"The people in the regime who are voted into power are lying to us ... And united states of america kids seem to be the merely ones who notice and are prepared to call B.S."[6]

"We Call B.S." speech 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 Feb 17, 2018, González gave an 11-infinitesimal speech in front end of the Broward County Courthouse at a gun command rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[4] The speech was in reaction to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, three days previously, during which a gunman had killed 17 and severely injured many more.[three]

In the speech they pledged to piece of work with their peers to pressure lawmakers to modify the law.[6] "Nosotros are going to be the last mass shooting," González proclaimed. "That's going to be Marjory Stoneman Douglas in that textbook, and it's all going to exist due to the tireless efforts of the school board, the faculty members, the family members and virtually importantly the students." The spoken communication notably featured a call and response: "We call B.S.," in response to gun laws, calling for advancement and empowering immature people to speak out against school shootings.[16] [17] The speech so went viral.[3] [xi] [18] [19] Co-ordinate to The Washington Post, González's spoken communication became emblematic of the "new strain of furious advocacy" that sprang up immediately afterwards the shooting.[three]

In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, González said they felt their message would resonate through repetition. "I knew I would go my job done properly at that rally if I got people chanting something. And I thought 'We telephone call B.Southward.' has 4 syllables, that's good, I'll use that. I didn't want to say the actual curse words... this message doesn't need to be thought of in a negative mode at all."[18]

A recording of González delivering a line in the speech was sampled as the intro for Madonna's "I Rise", released in May 2019.[20]

Subsequent activism and media appearances

They and other survivors spoke with Florida state legislators in Tallahassee on February 20, 2018. The students watched the legislature vote downward contend on an existing gun control bill.

The students besides spoke at an internationally televised town hall hosted by CNN on February 21, 2018.[xi] González and others criticized the National Rifle Association (NRA) as well every bit politicians who take money from it, as being complicit in the shootings, and stated that "you're either funding the killers, or y'all're standing with the children."[21]

At the town hall, González pressed an NRA representative to clarify their position on guns.[22] "Dana Loesch, I want you lot to know that we will support your 2 children in the manner that you lot will not," González said at the town hall. "The shooter at our school obtained weapons that he used on united states legally. Do yous believe that it should be harder to obtain the semi-automatic and... the modifications for these weapons to brand them fully automatic like bump stocks?" Loesch answered González by arguing that mentally sick people shouldn't have access to weapons. González interjected and noted that they hadn't answered their question. "I remember I'm gonna interrupt you real quick and remind you that the question is actually, do you believe it should exist harder to obtain these semi-automatic weapons and modifications to make them fully automatic, such equally crash-land stocks?"[22] Shortly subsequently their viral oral communication and high-profile media appearances, González joined Twitter and acquired more than 1 million followers within a span of less than 10 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 Postal service called 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 about visible student activists to emerge from the shooting..."[26] In a nationally televised interview on threescore Minutes, González described the idea of arming teachers in classrooms with guns as "stupid."[27] In March 2018, González was on the cover of Fourth dimension magazine along with fellow activists Jaclyn Corin, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, and Alex Current of air.[28] That aforementioned month they were profiled past France 24.[29]

Protesters react as González remains silent every bit office of their speech at the March for Our Lives on March 24, 2018.

Speech at March for Our Lives

González and other students, including fellow 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 six minutes, the length of fourth dimension of the Parkland shooting, and paid tribute to the victims past mentioning each one by name and giving examples of things they would never again be able to exercise. They followed this by several minutes of silence.[31] [32] González was interviewed on MSNBC at the march, stating people needed to "empathise rather than feel apathy" and calling for young people to annals to vote.[33]

New laws

In March 2018, the Florida Legislature passed a pecker titled the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolhouse Public Safety Act. Information technology raises the minimum age for buying firearms to 21, establishes waiting periods and background checks, provides a plan for the arming of some teachers and the hiring of schoolhouse police force, bans crash-land stocks, and confined potentially violent or mentally unhealthy people arrested under sure laws from possessing guns. In all, the law allocates around $400 1000000 for implementation.[34] Rick Scott signed the nib into law on March 9. The governor commented, "To the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, you made your voices heard. You didn't let up and you fought until in that location was change."[35]

Continuing advocacy

In May 2018 González met with James Shaw Jr., a man who prevented further bloodshed at a mass shooting in a Waffle House eating place past rushing the attacker and taking away his AR-15 rifle and saving more lives; both Shaw and González described each other equally heroes.[36]

Attacks and conspiracy theories

González was attacked for their Fort Lauderdale speech past many from the political right fly of American politics and press.[37] [38] They have also faced derogatory comments made past internet trolls about their sexual orientation, curt pilus, and skin color.[39] They were verbally attacked by Leslie Gibson, and then the Republican candidate running unopposed for the Maine legislature and lifetime NRA member, who referred to them as a "skinhead lesbian", whereupon 28-yr-one-time Eryn Gilchrist filed papers to run against him, thus providing an opponent;[40] [41] Republican former state Senator Thomas Martin, Jr., who said that Gibson'south remarks did not stand for the Maine Republican Party, and that he planned to contact the survivors to commend their courage, as well filed to run for the seat. A few days later 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 take falsely accused the students, including González, of being crunch actors. Benjamin Kelly, an aide to Florida state Representative Shawn Harrison (R-63), was fired after making such accusations.[37] [45] Donald Trump Jr. faced criticism for actualization to support the crisis actor accusations.[46] The conspiracy theories spread nearly González and other Parkland survivors were named PolitiFact's 2018 Lie of the Year.[47]

Following their highly publicized spoken language at the March for Our Lives, pro-gun activists doctored false photos and video showing González ripping up a re-create of the U.s. 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 tearing upwardly shooting range targets.[48] Adam Baldwin defended spreading the simulated video, saying it was "political satire."[49]

Attacks by Steve Male monarch and response

Republican congressman Steve Rex attacked González for wearing a Cuban flag patch on their jacket during their speech, proverb in a post on Facebook, "This is how you lot look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison house camp, later on removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defence force."[fifty] The Cuban flag worn by González was adopted in 1902, fifty years before the communist accept over, and has been used past anti-Castro Cuban exiles as a symbol of patriotism.[51] 1 of the survivors of the Orlando nightclub shooting, Brandon Wolf, responded to King saying "When it was my customs, where were y'all? When information technology was Sandy Hook? Columbine? Were you lot on the sideline mocking those communities too? Did you lot question someone identifying as a mother? Did yous question whether people like me were crisis actors?" and "Emma stood for half dozen mins and 20 seconds to honor the lives of 17 gone too soon. The to the lowest degree you could practise is shut your privileged, ineffective trap for vi seconds to hear someone else's perspective."[51] In an interview with the New Civil Rights Movement, Wolf also pointed out that King keeps a Confederate flag on his desk.[52]

King'due south comments generated fierce condemnation from Wolf, González, and other members of Never Once more MSD. In June 2018, as role of the March for Our Lives' "Route to Change" tour, gun control advocates and members of Never Once more MSD arrived at King'south part in Sioux City to protest confronting 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. Male monarch largely ignored the protests.[53] [54] [ why? ]

Personal life

González is bisexual[10] and uses they/them pronouns.[55] According to Vogue, their buzz cutting is not a reaction to the schoolhouse shooting, but rather to Florida'due south climate.[56] "People asked me, 'Are you taking a feminist stand?' No, I wasn't. It's Florida. Pilus is just an actress sweater I'yard forced to wearable," González recalled. "I even made a PowerPoint presentation to convince my parents to let me shave my head, and it worked."[13] In May 2021, González announced the usage of a new personal proper noun, Ten, citing dissociation with their previous personal proper noun and feminine pronouns.[57] [58]

Works

  • "Parkland Pupil Emma González Opens Upwardly About Her Fight for Gun Control". Harper's Bazaar. Feb 26, 2018.
  • "Opinion: A Young Activist's Advice: Vote, Shave Your Head and Weep Whenever You Need To". The New York Times. October five, 2018.
  • "Emma González on Why This Generation Needs Gun Control". Teen Faddy. March 23, 2018.

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