{"id":90119,"date":"2018-04-23T16:40:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=90119"},"modified":"2018-04-22T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:43:13","slug":"a-new-video-features-new-york-high-school-students-discussing-gun-violence-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=90119","title":{"rendered":"A new video features New York high school students discussing gun violence epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A new video features New York high school students discussing gun violence epidemic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students call for common-sense gun reforms, continued civic engagement during a roundtable with Schneiderman at Bard HS Early College; video released on 19th\u00a0anniversary of Columbine shooting<\/em><\/p>\n

On the 19th\u00a0anniversary of the Columbine shooting, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released a new video featuring New York high school students discussing the gun violence epidemic and the common sense reforms necessary to keep them and their classmates safe. The video includes excerpts from a roundtable with Bard High School Early College Manhattan students hosted by Attorney General Schneiderman following last month\u2019s student walkout March 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re just common sense laws that we\u2019re fighting for,\u201d said\u00a0student Ana Guaba\u00a0in the video. \u201cWe do not need an assault rifle or a semiautomatic gun in the streets. You do not need that for self-protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Student Livia Miller\u00a0recalls the moment she learned about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were having a meeting, and he got this text, and said, \u2018Oh my god. There\u2019s a shooter at my friend\u2019s school\u2019\u2026\u201d she said. \u201cIt is always scary, but it\u2019s never felt one degree of separation away from the unthinkable happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese students are building a movement that will change our communities and change our country,\u201d said\u00a0Schneiderman. \u201cThe gun lobby may think that they can wait out these protests and keep on profiting from business as usual \u2013 but they\u2019ve never faced opponents like these students before.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery public official should hear these students and take their message to heart: Pass common sense gun reform. There are no more excuses for delay. Our children will not \u2013 and should not \u2013 forgive us if we keep failing to protect them from these entirely predictable and preventable attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click here to view the video on\u00a0YouTube<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Schneiderman has continued to fight for common sense gun laws in New York and on the federal level, part of broader efforts to keep New Yorkers safe from gun violence. The Attorney General\u2019s Organized Crime Task Force has focused on taking violent gun traffickers off our streets, and his statewide gun program has taken nearly 1,700 unwanted guns out of our communities to date. Schneiderman\u2019s office developed\u00a0Model Gun Show Procedures<\/a>, a series of safety procedures for gun show operators in New York state and announced new policies to help social media sites curb illegal sales of firearms on their platforms.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the\u00a0Attorney General released a first-of-its-kind analysis of tens of thousands of \u201ccrime guns\u201d recovered by law enforcement<\/a>,\u00a0illustrating gun trafficking trends that undermine New York\u2019s sensible laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new video features New York high school students discussing gun violence epidemic Students call for common-sense gun reforms, continued civic engagement during a roundtable with Schneiderman at Bard HS Early College; video released on 19th\u00a0anniversary of Columbine shooting On the 19th\u00a0anniversary of the Columbine shooting, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,23814,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-state","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-nrx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-1-2.png?fit=740%2C420&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}