Never Again MSD

Ted Deutch , Democratic MP in the US House of Representatives with representatives of the initiative in his office before the March for our Lives on March 24, 2018

Never Again MSD is an American student-run organization founded in response to the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida . She advocates greater control over gun ownership and against the political influence of the National Rifle Association (NRA). The name Never Again MSD stands for the concern that an event like the massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School ( MSD for short ) should never happen again.

The founders of the group are around twenty students who were among the survivors of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. Its most prominent and active members are Emma González , Alex Wind, Cameron Kasky, David Hogg, Jaclyn Corin, Sarah Chadwick, Sofie Whitney and Delaney Tarr. One of her strengths is the well-established public relations work on Twitter and Facebook . In a televised debate, Kasky put pressure on Republican Senator Marco Rubio , who had received funding from the NRA for his campaign.

aims

Animation of a bump stick when firing: The forward movement of the rifle body pulls the trigger again

Among other things, the initiative advocates a ban on " bump stocks ". These are devices that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire a quasi-fully automatic sequence like a machine gun . Among other things, with "Bump Fire" in the mass murder in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, 58 people were killed and 851 others injured.

On March 23, 2018, one day before the March for Our Lives , the US government presented a law to ban bump stocks: According to this, gun owners would either have to destroy these parts or give them to government agencies.

supporter

Actors George Clooney and his wife Amal , Jeffrey Katzenberg , Steven Spielberg and talk show host Oprah Winfrey, for example, each donated half a million dollars to the organization in support of B. the preparation of the March for Our Lives .

Web links

• deutschlandfunk.de , March 24, 2018, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson in conversation with Peter Sawicki : Protest against "a climate of fear and threat"
  • Marcus Pindur: Young Americans are marching for their lives
• teenvogue.com , March 23, 2018, Emma González : Why This Generation Needs Gun Control
• time.com , March 22, 2018, Charlotte Alter: The School Shooting Generation Has Had Enough ("The school shooting generation has had enough")
• zeit.de , March 1, 2018, Julian Heissler: Young rebels

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lani Seelinger: What Is Never Again MSD? Parkland Survivors Are Standing Up To Politicians & The NRA. Retrieved February 24, 2018 . 
2. ^ Richard Wolffe: Marco Rubio almost got away with his routine. Then he met Cameron Kasky. In: The Guardian . Retrieved February 24, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Girlfriend of the perpetrator should clarify the motive: Investigators hope for clarification orf.at, October 4, 2017, accessed October 4, 2017.
4. ↑ zeit.de , January 21, 2018: Amok shooters injured significantly more people than previously known ; see also the preliminary final report here .
5. ↑ Restricting US Gun Law: Trump Administration Bans "Bump Stocks". www.n-tv.de, March 24, 2018, accessed on March 24, 2018 . 
6. ↑ George Clooney: George Clooney to Parkland students: 'You make me proud of my country again' . In: the Guardian . March 23, 2018 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 23, 2018]).
7. ^ Badische Zeitung: Uprising of the Columbine generation - foreign countries - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on March 24, 2018]).
8. ↑ March For Our Lives - March 24, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2018 (American English).