March For Our Lives Reflects on Eight Years After Parkland
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 14, 2026
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Eight years ago, lives were forever shattered when a gunman entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and killed 17 students and educators, wounding many more. We remember. We were told our pain, grief, and anger would fade with time. We were told that the systems putting gun profits over the lives of children were too powerful and too entrenched to challenge.
Yet over these eight years, we have marched by the millions. We have registered a generation of voters. We have fought in the halls of Congress and in statehouses across the country, securing effective gun safety laws. And we have changed how this country talks about guns and gun violence.
Still, much remains undone. While we have fought, thousands of innocent people have been killed by everyday gun violence and mass shootings. And those threatened by our movement are working to dismantle hard-won progress.
On this heavy day, we carry our beloved 17 with us as a charge to keep going. The march is not over. It is accelerating. Our movement will outlast thoughts and prayers, and it will outlive those determined to turn back the clock. We will not stop until we have built a country where no one has to fear gun violence.
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