Title: Emma González - Wikipedia
Headings: Emma González
Emma González
Contents
Early life and education
Advocacy
"We Call B.S." speech at the Rally to Support Firearm Safety Legislation
Subsequent activism and media appearances
Speech at March for Our Lives
New laws
Continuing advocacy
Attacks and conspiracy theories
Attacks by Steve King and response
Personal life
Works
References
External links

Content: NBC News called their "one of the most visible student activists to emerge from the shooting..." In a nationally televised interview on 60 Minutes, González described the idea of arming teachers in classrooms with guns as "stupid." In March 2018, González was on the cover of Time magazine along with fellow activists Jaclyn Corin, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, and Alex Wind. That same month they were profiled by France 24. Protesters react as González remains silent as part of their speech at the March for Our Lives on March 24, 2018. Speech at March for Our Lives
González and other students, including fellow Parkland survivors Hogg, Kasky, and Sarah Chadwick, organized and participated in the nationwide March for Our Lives protest on March 24, 2018, with a focus on speakers and a march in Washington, DC. González spoke for six minutes, the length of time of the Parkland shooting, and paid tribute to the victims by mentioning each one by name and giving examples of things they would never again be able to do. They followed this by several minutes of silence. González was interviewed on MSNBC at the march, stating people needed to "empathize rather than feel apathy" and calling for young people to register to vote. New laws
In March 2018, the Florida Legislature passed a bill titled the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act. It raises the minimum age for buying firearms to 21, establishes waiting periods and background checks, provides a program for the arming of some teachers and the hiring of school police, bans bump stocks, and bars potentially violent or mentally unhealthy people arrested under certain laws from possessing guns.