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John,

I was 17 when my class huddled on the floor, the room silent except for
our breathing as we watched the small window in the door, unsure if a gun
might appear. Hours later, we learned that 17 classmates and teachers had
been killed elsewhere on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, 2018. Everything about our
world changed in that moment, split into the life we had before and the
one we were forced to begin after.

The experiences of students at Brown University this past weekend are
eerily reminiscent of what my classmates and I went through that day.
Students sheltering in place, holding their breath, and hoping the gunman
didn’t choose their classroom to enter next.

When the world began to move on from what happened at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School, we refused to follow. My classmates and I helped
start March For Our Lives because we could not accept a country willing to
look away while children were killed in their classrooms. We did not have
a roadmap. We only knew silence was not an option, and, somehow, a group
of teenagers pierced the armor of the gun lobby and forced the country to
confront a crisis it had long ignored.

Young people went on to win battles no one expected. We helped weaken the
NRA’s political dominance. We pushed hundreds of gun safety laws across
the finish line in statehouses nationwide. Millions of young people voted
in 2018 with ending gun violence as a top priority.

Since then, the crisis has only deepened. Gun violence remains the leading
cause of death for young people in America. Twelve young people die from
gun violence every single day. Entire communities live in permanent grief.
And, now, the federal government is rolling back violence prevention
efforts and opening a “gun rights office” inside the Department of
Justice.

There is a specific heartbreak in realizing that the world you worked to
change continues to fail the generation growing up after you. But we are
not hopeless. The same generation that flooded the streets after Parkland
is still here. We are older now, more strategic, and far less willing to
wait politely for adults to decide whether our lives matter.

March For Our Lives is prepared to meet this moment with a five-year plan
that strengthens what has always driven our movement: disrupting
complacency, applying pressure, and reshaping a culture that treats gun
violence as normal.

1. We will expose the people and institutions enabling gun violence

Gun violence persists because powerful people enable it through political
decisions, corporate ties, and industry influence that rarely faces
scrutiny.

Over the next five years, we will run targeted national campaigns that
reveal who is profiting from this crisis and who is blocking solutions.
This year, we launched “Parkland Pam,” a campaign to expose Attorney
General Pam Bondi’s record of taking NRA money and rejecting reforms that
could have saved lives. That approach to accountability will be expanded
nationwide.

2. We will bring youth stories into the places the country cannot ignore

Most Americans know the statistics, but they rarely see the quieter truths
behind them: the untouched bedroom, the unopened college acceptance email,
the sibling who jumps at sudden sounds. Stories like these show the human
toll of this crisis in ways data cannot.

Youth stories will be placed in cultural spaces that shape public
attention, including festivals, creator platforms, gaming communities,
public art, and unexpected installations. By meeting people where they
already gather, these experiences will be harder to dismiss and harder to
scroll past.

3. We will turn moments of national attention into real action

Young people often want to help but do not know where to begin. We are
creating a clear path forward.

Our digital action hub will offer quick and meaningful ways to engage,
from emailing lawmakers to mobilizing for key votes to joining
rapid-response protests. It will help young people take action from
wherever they are and will grow into a digital community that can move
together when it matters most.

4. We will train a new generation of survivor-leaders

Survivors have always given this movement its moral clarity. Their voices
shaped the nation after Parkland and continue to carry a power that cannot
be replicated.

We are building a national cohort of survivor-leaders who will receive
training, support, and real platforms to shape public understanding.
Narrative change drives policy change, and survivor-leaders are central to
both.

Why this will work

MFOL’s strengths—digital fluency, authenticity, moral authority, and
cultural relevance—align with what this moment demands. Young people
already influence culture every day, and when that influence is
coordinated, it becomes political power.

We are clear-eyed about the forces working against us. The new gun rights
office inside the Department of Justice is a huge setback after MFOL’s
important work in establishing the former White House Office of Gun
Violence Prevention. In Florida, efforts are already underway to roll back
the reforms passed after Parkland.

But the gun lobby is miscalculating. It is betting on fatigue. It is
forgetting what young people have already accomplished. We pushed dozens
of major corporations to cut ties with the gun lobby after Parkland. We
helped pass nearly 70 gun safety laws in a single year, including red-flag
laws and expanded background checks. These victories happened because
young people acted together.

I will never know who my 17 classmates and teachers might have become. I
do know that young people have changed this country before, and we can do
it again. Over the next five years, we’re building the future we hand to
the next generation—one in which safety, not gun industry profits, defines
our lives.

If you want to hear more from March For Our Lives, or just stay up to date
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Sincerely,

Jackie Corin
Executive Director
March For Our Lives





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