These are the role models you actually want your kids to have
In the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, came the usual flurry of thoughts and prayers?from politicians, naturally. But as the days have passed, there’s been a growing call for gun control from the kids who were in the school?the ones who hid under desks and in classrooms, or even filmed the horror on their smartphones.
Traumatized, angered and moved to action, these teenagers are speaking out, using social media to call politicians to action. And in just a matter of days, they’ve made themselves into a new crop of role models for our kids.  They’re not celebrities or superheroes?but these real kids are totally admirable and are using their time in the spotlight to call for change.
It can be hard to find people to look up to in the age of Logan Paul or PewDiePie, but these kids are speaking truth to power and showing so much courage. Take Emma Gonzalez, who literally called bullshit on the politicians who are taking money from the NRA and who claim that guns are not at the root of shooting deaths. Illustration: Lalo Alcaraz via Pocho.com
In her speech at a rally last week in Fort Lauderdale, Gonzalez said: “Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have been done to prevent this, we call BS. They say tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS. They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We call BS. They say guns are just tools like knives ...
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