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Parkland’s Peace Activist, Emma González Emma González said, “They say no laws could have prevented the hundreds of senseless tragedies that have occurred. We call BS. That us kids don't know what we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the government works. We call BS” (Chalene). This is saying that there are laws that could have prevented mass shootings. People are also saying that kids are too young to understand how the government works, and that is bad. This is bad because people in Congress don’t believe that people under the age of eighteen aren’t mature enough to vote. They need to depend on adults to vote for their views. Emma González is a peace activist who is fighting for tougher gun laws after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018. Emma González was born in 1999 in Parkland, Florida. She has two older siblings (Lowery). While she was in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, she was the president of the Gay-Straight Alliance Club. On the day of the shooting, she was in the auditorium with many students when the fire alarm went off. Many students tried to leave through the hallway but were told to take refuge back in the auditorium. The police held the students there for until it was safe to leave. González graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the spring of 2018. She is currently a freshman at New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida (Pearl). Emma González started this activism after the shooting of her school on February 14, 2018. Nikolas Cruz was the shooter. As Abrahamsen stated in The Murdering Mind, “Every homicide is unconsciously a suicide and every suicide is, in a sense, a psychological homicide. Typically, the killer is afraid of killing himself, afraid of dying and therefore he murders