139 3 Democracy and citizenship over the USA support them. Student Emma González takes the lead and speaks at the mass meeting. Then she is silent for several minutes. She looks straight into the audience with tears running down her cheeks. The six minutes and twenty seconds she has been on stage is the same amount of time the gunman used to kill seventeen people. She finishes her speech with a call to action: “Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job!” In the last eighteen years, there have been more mass shootings in schools in the USA than in the entire 20th century. Emma González and the other young people behind #NeverAgain are fighting to change these cruel statistics. Hopefully their voices will be heard. to support – styðja to take the lead – leiða several – nokkrir straight into – beint inn í cheeks – kinnar on stage – á sviði an amount of time – ákveðin tímalengd a call to action – hvatning til aðgerða to fight – berjast a mass shooting – skotárás than – en entire – allur cruel – grimmur Left: Student Emma González Right: The March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., in 2018
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