Cameron Kasky

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helped the survival of the Parkland school massacre in Florida in February 2018 Cameron Kasky in the management of a youth-campaign for Gun Control . But The Strain of his experiences - in The School , and the focus of the media left Him anxious and depressed. A year later, writes the BBC's Tom Gillett, his focus is on the dialogue with his former opponent.

14. February 2018, a former pupil of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida entered, armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. After Six Minutes and 20 seconds carnage, three teachers and 14 from Cameron Kasky of the fellow students was dead.

The geography teacher Scott Biegel, which Kasky had known, died in the protection of his students from gunfire.

For the lathe broke from work, Kasky had been rushing to his Younger Brother in a special needs class. Pushed into the next class room, The Brothers spent the Rest of The Attack hiding in The Dark , not knowing whether the door would be opened by The Shooter or a Savior.

There he remained in contact with events outside on his cell phone.

"I've seen the videos, when we were in The Room , people are killed. They were about to Snapchat," he says.

"It was very familiar to me. I grew up with these. I was born in the year 2000 - this was not long After Columbine," he says, and refers to the Columbine school massacre the previous year, in which 12 students and A Teacher were murdered, the armed of two teenagers That killed themselves.

Kasky: "I Am a part of the mass shooting Generation, and it is an ugly club. "

It was the reaction of the teenage Parkland students immediately After the events of this day, That , from the response to this attack unique.

An angry determination set in under Kasky and a small group of his friends.

"to this day, I said," We need to flip this Narrative . 'After All the shootings, You see, so similar Things . You see, cry, the mothers talk about their children. You see people talk about how The Shooter just a nice kid - was simply Misunderstood . With only a few exceptions, had so much of these shootings is the same exact answer. A couple of legislators get children out of the recording would be standing next to You , You would sign some bill That did Nothing and we were done. I said, 'no, We can't Park landscape, The City . '

"I wanted it to be, That 20 years After The Shooting , when people thought of the Parkland-You don't think people are crying, she thought of the people in the worst situation, get up and stand for Something bigger than You . "

From The Night of The Attack , Kasky and a handful of his classmates took to Social Media , demanding stricter Gun Control laws and The Right to be able to go to school without The Fear of being killed. As You entered and published, the hashtag #never again went viral.

"I found me a frantic Facebook posting. It was what I knew How To do," he says. "The next morning, I was getting all these calls from reporters. "

The same thing happens to his friends.

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As well as to do broadcast interviews, Kasky wrote in the online comment pieces and a week After The Attack - he took in a televised town-hall event.

You Stand in front of a large crowd of colleagues and neighbors, he will face Republican, Florida Senator Marco Rubio about The Money he had received from The National Rifle Association. "Senator Rubio, You can tell me now That You would accept That not a single NRA donation in The Future ?" he demanded.

The Room exploded in chants and cheers. Kasky looked stunned and overwhelmed. He just had one of the country's most prominent politicians on The Spot , live on national television.

As momentum gathered behind the young activist, Kasky, co-founded The Group in The March For Our lives, and organized a demonstration in The Nation 's capital.

Six Weeks After the assassination, on 24. March 2018, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington DC to protest The March For Our lives. The parkland students demanded a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and more stringent background checks the history for those who buy weapons.

The organizers estimated That took 800,000 people at the rally That Day .

But while The Students there, the recovery, public support and media attention, which is not realized, the concrete legislative steps, which You have requested.

In the month After The Attack , the Governor of Florida, Rick Scott signed a bill That provides for stricter age restrictions for gun purchases, and provided financing for Mental Health services in The State .

On a Federal level, the so-called "bump-stock", which was banned a gun to be fired faster. But your other claims have been resisted.

As The First anniversary of the Parkland massacre approaches, Cameron is, in spite of this, sanguine about The Movement 's successes.

"While we don't have all the legislative victories we want to do with Gun Control ... at the end of The Day , it is not a victory in the sense That the Park is a landscape of The City , That You think, and You immediately think of people That grief and people run away from a problem," he says.

"I think when people hear Park landscape, think of Something That is bigger and stronger than The Shooter . "

But he is also critical of himself and the decisions he made in the period immediately After The Attack .

activists Alex Wind , Emma Gonzalez , Cameron Kasky , Jaclyn Corin , David Hogg , were pictured on The Cover of Time magazine After The Attack on their school Sits in The Living room of his small suburb in the vicinity of Miami, Cameron says That he now feels That he is too confrontational.

"I think it has shown That sometimes, how we feel about Things That are on the way to our goal," he says.

It is a statement That he regrets particularly, a comment to Marco Rubio in the Town Hall debate:

"Senator Rubio, it is hard to look at You and not see the barrel on a AR-15 and not..." and here he named The Shooter - Something That the young activists decided quickly, it would not do to refuse Him the glory or the shame, he wanted maybe.

"I regretted the name of The Shooter , Senator Rubio and said to Him , I can't watch it without The Shooter . This is not true," he says.

"In many ways, my confrontation with Senator Rubio has been very positive, in the sense That it reminds a lot of people my age, the politicians are just like all the others - You are not these deities That You will need to Look Up to them As If they are our Supreme leaders.

"But You have to go... I don't have it in such a sharp way, I find it very useful and productive. "

activism, That he and the others threw themselves in The Days After The Shooting , a way of dealing with The Pain , he says, and the feeling of helplessness was. But the intense media interest also took a psychological toll.

"After the shoot, I found myself on TV almost 24/7 for a month or two, and I found myself exploded to this point where so many people were looking at what I had to say and were to listen to me," he says.

"I think the concept That I could make, Gun Control was done seductively. And I began to see itself as the person, the Gun Control happen. As If it was me. Not As If it was a big push for legislative change in This Country . I had this Messiah-like concept That I could do this. And I got so high That . "

If all this happens, Kasky was only 17, and he found it difficult to treat.

"I have so long in front of the cameras That I've forgotten How To be a person," he says.

"I have so long as I have the feeling it was an avatar. The feeling of how my body was, Things to say and do Things That cut off my view. "

And finally, he says, it all started with Him - and it was reinforced, he says, by the mistakes he felt he made along the way. He struggles with depression and anxiety," he says.

In the summer of 2018, Kasky went on a Road Trip to Texas, where in one direction, he actively sought the opinions of those who disagree with Him on gun ownership.

"I think the more You think about it, how right You are and how wrong everyone else is, the less You learn. A lot of people in This Country are stuck in the bubble, especially because of Social Media .

"I'm very pro-Gun Control ... and if I'm with other people, to not think the pro-gun ownership, I begin, 'If You think You need a really bad person. "And Then I met these people and I said, 'These people are not bad people. '

"If I denigrate half the people in This Country , where the hell are You bringing me? I think it is so much That we can do if we all see each other and say: 'Where can we agree?' Because That is usually where The Most progress is being made. "

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