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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'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.  
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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>
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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> Additionally, it was found that only 10% of participants in the protest were 18 years of age or younger, with the average age of attendees being just under 49.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/28/heres-who-actually-attended-the-march-for-our-lives-no-it-wasnt-mostly-young-people</ref>
    
==Aftermath==
 
==Aftermath==

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