Six Marjory Stoneman Douglas student activists urged lawmakers to stop taking donations from the NRA in a new YouTube video, published Friday by the website NoNRAMoney.org.
“Lawmakers, we call B.S.,” Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg and other students chant in the video, echoing Gonzalez’s viral speech last month in downtown Fort Lauderdale. “Stop taking NRA money. Take the pledge at NoNRAMoney.org.”
The pledge in question is twofold, according to NoNRAMoney.org, a national campaign founded a few days after the Stoneman Douglas shooting. The first pledge asks elected officials to refuse support from the NRA and to support “common-sense gun control legislation.”
The second pledge asks voters to stop supporting any candidate who has been endorsed and favorably rated by the NRA, or who has accepted contributions from the pro-gun organization.
The No NRA Money initiative was started by Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, an LGBT rights advocacy group based in St. Petersburg.
“We are aiming to break the stranglehold that the NRA has on blocking rational gun policy,” Smith said, promoting No NRA Money in an early-March interview on MSNBC program “AM Joy.”
