Eight years ago this month, everything changed.
In just one week, John, we’ll honor the eighth year-mark of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Just days later, we will also mark eight years since the founding of March For Our Lives, a movement born from grief and transformed into sustained action.
Eight years since 17 lives were taken and a generation rose up to demand change.
It’s shocking to think that eight years after the deadliest mass shooting at a high school in U.S. history, we’re still fighting for change. Despite passing the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act in Florida, which raised the minimum age to purchase a firearm in Florida from 18 to 21, we’re still facing challenges every day — and using our grief from February 14, 2018 to power policy change.
But our grief hasn’t ended gun violence, and lawmakers with deep ties to the gun lobby still block commonsense solutions.
Eight years after Parkland, the work to stand up to the gun lobby and demand change is still heartbreakingly necessary — and it is still driven by people who refuse to accept the status quo.
We carry the memory of the 17 lives lost that day in Parkland, and we still carry their courage. Can you chip in now to make sure that courage turns into lasting policy and safer communities? Every dollar you give helps us train young organizers, support survivors, and keep the pressure on lawmakers who refuse to act.
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Your contribution right now helps turn grief into change — and keeps the hope that one day, more lives will not be lost to this epidemic.
Thank you.
— March For Our Lives
