Beto O'Rourke: When It Comes to Fighting Gun Violence, Listen to the Kids

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The month following the massacre in Parkland, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School held the March For Our Lives, inspiring more than a million Americans across the country to march with them, including me and my family.

With my son Henry on my shoulders, I joined hundreds of El Pasoans fighting to end the epidemic of gun violence that took the lives of nearly 40,000 Americans in 2017.

As we finished marching, we were met by counter-protesters flaunting AR-15s. And when Henry saw them, he asked me why they were there — because, in his mind, assault weapons didn’t belong at a March For Our Lives.

I told him he didn’t have anything to worry about. “Just ignore them,” I said.

Read more: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/beto-orourke-fighting-gun-violence-march-for-our-lives-op-ed