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Monday, April 30, 2018

Vice President Pence must hear the March for our Lives message

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is located in Parkland, Florida, in the Miami, Florida metropolitan area. It is a part of the Broward County Public School district.

David Hogg, survivor of the mass shooting at the Marjory Stonman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, 2018, who has used his newfound notoriety to promote gun reform, is demanding Vice President Mike Pence to withdraw from a planned speech at an upcoming National Rifle Association (NRA) convention, The Washington Times reported.

In a tweet Sunday, Hogg encouraged others to "Demand Mike Pence cancel his speech to the NRA convention on May 4." Accompanying his post was information about a petition by MoveOn.org asking for signatures that also demanded Pence cancel his NRA speech.

The petition states the vice president's presence at the convention was "a signal to young people organizing historic actions that the NRA's extremist agenda and donations are more valuable to Mike Pence than the lives lost."
 

The petition also targets other lawmakers, insisting those who oppose the NRA "must hold all politicians to basic standards of decency."

The May NRA meeting is set to take place in Dallas Texas, and is a gathering of the group's political lobbying arm and not the broader membership, the Times article states.

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