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There’s a bunch of people in the notes claiming they’re not attacking the Parkland kids, just criticizing their ideas, or saying that the kids are too privileged to be good spokesmen. Yet they’re also wildly mis-characterizing the movement’s positions as being about nothing more than “more cops” and getting rid of privacy laws (and even the OP is kind of reinforcing these misconceptions). Those suggestions were in a single document written by a separate group of students who didn’t organize the March, and many speakers specifically spoke against those suggestions.

This has all been pointed out, repeatedly, so pretending the March For Our Lives is about more cops and nothing else is basically a shitty, intentional distortion by the left to weaken support for the only movement that’s gained any serious momentum for gun control in years.

And you know, even if some of the people involved in MFOL do support the existence of cops and a military, so do like, the vast majority of Americans. Refusing to support a movement for gun control that also includes fairly mainstream proposals like bans on certain types of guns, waiting periods, CDC research, etc. unless everyone involved also supports anarchism and disarming the military is effectively refusing to support gun control, period. But honestly I don’t even think this is really about “purity” or whatever, it’s that the left has decided that gun control is liberal nonsense, and they’re looking for any reason to oppose it.