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Before the pop icon starts singing in her"I Rise" video, another familiar voice preludes the song. "Us kids don't know what we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the government works," Emma Gonzalez says at the beginning."We call BS." Gonzalez was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida when a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people in February last year.
! They say that tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence -- we call B.S.! They say that no laws could have been able to prevent the hundreds of senseless tragedies that have occurred --- we call B.S.! That us kids don't know what we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the government works -- we call B.S.!" In the song, Madonna later sings,"Not bulletproof, shouldn't have to run from a gun.
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