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'''March for Our Lives (MFOL)''' is a [[leftist]] organization similar to [[Women's March]] that is best known for organizing its namesake [[protest]] on 24 March 2018, with the main event taking place in [[Washington D.C.]] and similar protests being held all over the [[United States]]. MFOL, whose main goal was to push for stricter [[gun control]], was founded in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting, a tragedy which was extensively used by the [[mainstream media]] to advocate against the [[second amendment]]. After the protests concluded, MFOL faded somewhat into obscurity.
MFOL's initial run was marked by a hefty amount of anti-[[NRA]] rhetoric in the media,<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/25/after-march-for-our-lives-students-and-senators-take-aim-at-nra/</ref>as well as a major focus on the activism of anti-gun Stoneman Douglas survivors such as David Hogg and Emma González. Meanwhile, pro-second amendment survivors like Kyle Kashuv were ignored almost entirely.
MFOL and its advocates also presented [[Generation Z|Gen Z]] as a generation unified in favor of stricter gun laws,<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/march-for-our-lives-2018_n_5ab69787e4b008c9e5f7cf8f?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALesb2mzuWk10UFH1Xucq6zU7o4thKD5CYg5DvCly7d35XyvDA-EcIIn1ejsRdQQ18ET0ggYA83fa2PDMSMsI5as0F64i2BfQ0Hg73qAyYoK87XDNQ4A_ljFZC0rlsdrxYK0Bdlg8Jb7F4uaVCdn4f-SGGjTopo5P1gMI_DICuQO</ref> though surveys tend to indicate younger generations are not actually any more likely to support gun control than their elders.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2018/02/24/588069946/millennials-are-no-more-liberal-on-gun-control-than-elders-polls-show</ref>
==Aftermath==
While the protests achieved a large turnout and were continuously praised by [[Democratic Party]] officials and news outlets, it is difficult to demonstrate anything that was actually accomplished by the activism in the long term.
The official website<ref>https://marchforourlives.com/</ref> and [[social media]] accounts set up for MFOL are still active, and are now mainly dedicated to encouraging voter registration as well as supporting other left-wing endeavors, such as the 2020 [[Black Lives Matter]] protests.
=References==
MFOL's initial run was marked by a hefty amount of anti-[[NRA]] rhetoric in the media,<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/25/after-march-for-our-lives-students-and-senators-take-aim-at-nra/</ref>as well as a major focus on the activism of anti-gun Stoneman Douglas survivors such as David Hogg and Emma González. Meanwhile, pro-second amendment survivors like Kyle Kashuv were ignored almost entirely.
MFOL and its advocates also presented [[Generation Z|Gen Z]] as a generation unified in favor of stricter gun laws,<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/march-for-our-lives-2018_n_5ab69787e4b008c9e5f7cf8f?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALesb2mzuWk10UFH1Xucq6zU7o4thKD5CYg5DvCly7d35XyvDA-EcIIn1ejsRdQQ18ET0ggYA83fa2PDMSMsI5as0F64i2BfQ0Hg73qAyYoK87XDNQ4A_ljFZC0rlsdrxYK0Bdlg8Jb7F4uaVCdn4f-SGGjTopo5P1gMI_DICuQO</ref> though surveys tend to indicate younger generations are not actually any more likely to support gun control than their elders.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2018/02/24/588069946/millennials-are-no-more-liberal-on-gun-control-than-elders-polls-show</ref>
==Aftermath==
While the protests achieved a large turnout and were continuously praised by [[Democratic Party]] officials and news outlets, it is difficult to demonstrate anything that was actually accomplished by the activism in the long term.
The official website<ref>https://marchforourlives.com/</ref> and [[social media]] accounts set up for MFOL are still active, and are now mainly dedicated to encouraging voter registration as well as supporting other left-wing endeavors, such as the 2020 [[Black Lives Matter]] protests.
=References==