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🇺🇸 Never Again: America's Battle of the Bullets | Radicalised Youth

On February 14, 2018, a 19-year-old gunman opened fire at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people. The shooting was the deadliest in the history of high school shootings in the United States. It triggered a movement of young people protesting against the lack of gun control across the country, and major cities worldwide, including Berlin, London, Rome and Sydney, culminating in the March for Our Lives in Washington. "We are fighting for our voices to be heard because we do not want to see any other student get hurt by a bullet in their own school," says Stoneman Douglas student Carlos Rodriguez at a student protest at the House of Representatives in Tallahassee, Florida. The National Rifle Association of America's (NRA's) response to the March for Our Lives included a clip posted to the organisation's official YouTube channel calling the protest "a march to burn the constitution" and "one-sided, logic-deprived and intellectually dishonest". Before the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act was signed into law by Florida Governor Rick Scott, a staunch NRA supporter, the minimum age to buy a gun was 18 years. The act has changed this to a 21-year-old age minimum. The NRA immediately appealed the change, calling it unconstitutional. Scott has also called for an increased law enforcement presence in all schools, echoing President Donald Trump's response to the shooting which included potentially arming teachers. "There was a discussion going around, a couple of months after the Stoneman Douglas Shooting happened, that teachers should be able to be armed," says 17-year-old high school student Kyla Rivera. "I like the idea personally, but there's a lot of teachers who have democratic mindsets, 'No I don't want to shoot a gun' and kids who are like 'The teachers could shoot us'... that is such an idiotic mindset." "A few weeks ago, we had a lockdown at my school. We didn't know what was going on. We were stuck in a closet for an hour and a half... from that point on, all you can do is hide in a corner." "Active shooter" drills have become a common "preventative" action with 94 percent of American children involved in the exercise at some point in their schooling. As views vary on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, even from within the Stoneman Douglas community, a debate about disproportionate media coverage to address the issues with gun control has also arisen. While shootings at predominantly white schools continue to garner significant media exposure, poorer more prevalently black neighbourhoods face the same issues but without the attention of the global media. "Inner city school kids don't worry about what's going to happen inside school. Outside of school is where we look [and say], 'Oh, now I've got to survive outside of school'," says high schooler Jeremiah Johnson. With high school shootings averaging one a week in the United States, Never Again follows students, teachers and parents to find out what is behind this epidemic of violence and how this generation is taking it upon themselves to end it.