Yet as the hundreds and thousands around the country – and hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C. – rose their signs in support of the students, others who took in the sight were bittersweet.

Media coverage on Parkland has been overwhelmingly positive, with many [individuals] criticizing students’ critics and instead praising their bravery and strength.

However, statistics show that the students of Parkland, Florida do not fit the typical demographic of gun violence victims, leading many to wonder how they have become the face of a movement against gun violence.

Gloria Nichols attended the march in honor of her 30 year-old son, who was a victim of what many call “slow motion mass murder.” He, like 75 percent of Milwaukee’s 2014 homicide victims, died from a bullet in 2014; he was shot and killed by his tenant on August 19.

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Although the majority of Milwaukee’s African-American population – nearly 40% of the city – was markedly absent, at the march in Washington, D.C., D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, along with Moms Demand Action DC and members of Black Lives Matter, attended the Rally for Our Lives in solidarity with the overall marches.

There, the students of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting spoke up for themselves, organized mass movements and are now encouraging legislative reforms for gun laws. Despite their youth, they have been passionate and the most forceful advocates for their cause. They have also refused to trample on the Second Amendment, instead advocating against gun violence with “common-sense gun legislation” in the form of closing background check loopholes, banning bump stocks, and reconsidering the age of ownership for semi-automatic weapons.

One of the movement’s strongest assets is that it focuses on a specific, single issue. Dr. Harwood McClerking, an Africology Department professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said this is typical of most majority-white movements, which tend to thrive because they have a clear, single-issue focus.

“Black people have too many challenges, so they tend not to concentrate on only one of them,” he explained. “American movements, non-black movements, tend to form over single issues [but] it’s very difficult for any Black movement to be a single-issue movement.”

McClerking also suggested that race plays a large part in how audiences are react to group movements.

“Because blacks have been held as an object of derision and fear for so many years, for literally centuries, there’s a tremendous amount of negativity towards them. People who aren’t black react very negatively to black images – very negatively,” he emphasized.

Statistics show that African-Americans are disproportionately affected by gun violence in Milwaukee and Washington, D.C where the main march was held.

Milwaukee’s relationship to gun violence is unique to the state. According to the CDC and 2016 Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission (MHRC), the 2016 homicide rate in Milwaukee was 32.2 while the rate in Wisconsin is 4.8.

In comparison, the number of reported homicides in Broward County (81) during 2016 was less than 7 percent of homicides recorded in the state (1,294) by the CDC.

In Milwaukee, children are often included as victims of gun violence. According to the Homicide Review Commission:

• In 2016, there were approximately 10 non-fatal shooting victims under the age of 18.
• In 2015, 36 non-fatal shooting victims were 17 years-old or younger and 111 such victims were between the ages of 0-19.
• In 2014, 50 non-fatal shooting victims were 17 years-old or younger and 147 such victims were between the ages of 0-19.
• In 2016, approximately 57 homicide victims (all homicides and non-fatal shootings) were 17 years-old or younger.
• In 2015, 54 shooting victims were 17 years-old or younger.
• In 2014, 76 shooting victims were 17 years-old or younger.

Alicia Walker, who joined the Milwaukee marches, brought her 12 year-old son, George.

“I’m here for the people that died because someone with hate in their mind was able to buy a gun and just mow them down,” he said.

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George said that he’s been participating in “code red drills” at Maryland Avenue Montessori High School since he was very young.

“I feel kind of mad because I’d rather be doing my work at that moment instead of having to hide and pretend like somebody is in our school trying to kill us,” he said.”

The aspiring architect said he hopes to be move active in the March for Our Lives movement as he gets older, while Walker said she hopes the movement will remain strong and prompt legislative action.

However, she also agreed that very few among the crowd represented the most affected demographic of homicides and gun violence in Milwaukee.

“The messaging was not such that they felt included. A little Black Lives Matter would not have hurt,” she added.

Damon Rimmer is the African-American father of two St. Francis High School students, Blanche (15) and Kareem (16). Rimmer often surprises people because he owns two weapons: a gun and a PhD. However, he said neither can prevent others’ stereotypes about black males from Milwaukee.

Kareem said there’s no valid reason to cover victims of gun violence differently.

“School shootings get more attention, I guess. For what reason? I don’t know.” He shrugged. “It’s the same thing: someone is getting killed.”

“If someone was to get killed,” Blanche agreed, “they should get treated the same way.”

Rimmer said the media perpetuates stereotypes by changing coverage, depending on the race of those involved.

“If it’s not attached to black people, there’s room to be understanding and compassionate. Case in point, a young boy killed his ex-girlfriend and shot another student [and] the media says that he was lovesick. If a black person killed a young girl and her boyfriend, it would not be [like] that.”

Kareem pointed to his father. “You see my father. He has a PhD, he is not a criminal, he is not a thug,” he said, shaking his head. “All black people are not thugs.”

In fact, many are victims.

The failure to balance negative coverage with an equal frequency of positive coverage can lead viewers to develop pervasive stereotypes reaffirmed by daily news.

A textual analysis conducted by Kassia Kulzszewicz of St. Catherine University reached the following conclusions:

“[A] study examined emotional discomfort of participants after viewing a crime story which presented perpetrators of different skin tones. The results of the study showed that ‘all participants found the perpetrator more memorable when the representation was a dark-skinned Black male’ (Dixon & Maddox, 2005, p.1555) . . . Parham-Payne (2014) argues that her research supports the finding that negative stereotypes are maintained in the media and specifically towards Blacks. The stereotype portrayal incorporates that Blacks are “innately contentious and aggressive” (p.762). . . University of Michigan Professor, Richard Allen, discussed findings that African-Americans who were highly exposed to media, television, were more likely to report lower self-esteem (Luther et al., 2012) . . . While members of the community who identify as African American are generally at risk for media bias, it is thoroughly present in research that African American males receive the bulk of negative media attention. Not only is it concerning that Black males are targets for negative coverage, but it is further concerning that all Americans are liable to be impacted in ways that affect their racial perceptions.”

Dr. Stephen Hargarten, the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Emergency Department chair and experienced gun violence expert, said that even though mass shootings receive most of the media attention, gun violence is a chronic problem.

“It is constantly happening on a regular basis, whether a despondent 15 year-old gets a gun or an inquisitive 6 year-old picks one up,” said Stephen Hargarten, who described the nationwide rate of gun violence as a “significant biopsychosocial burden.”

The biopsychosocial approach addresses issues on biological, psychological and social fronts, many of which can be discerned from data collected on the type of escalation which leads to gun violence.

For example, in Milwaukee, the likelihood of becoming a victim from argument or retaliation-related shootings is 20 percentage points higher for black males, ages 0-19 (54.8 percent) than it is for white males, ages 0-19 (31.4 percent).

Hargarten noted that observing data through a biopsychosocial lens allows all areas of the community to address gun violence in a concerted manner.

“[Milwaukee] was one of the first counties to link information on firearm deaths, and it resulted in our pilot program, the national violence death reporting system,” Hargarten said, adding, “I think it’s really important for us to address this in its entirety as a public health issue,” Hargarten added.

Shringalah Webb, a pre-med and psychology senior at UWM, is from the southside of Chicago where the issue of gun violence often comes with daily reminders.

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Dr. Vincent Hutchings, a political science professor at the University of Michigan, said that it’s difficult for African-American movements against gun violence to gain traction because they are often portrayed as the perpetrators of gun violence in media.

“My suspicion is that there is more sympathy directed at white victims on average, than at black victims, probably because the audience for the mainstream media is majority white,” Hutchings said.

“African-Americans tend to be portrayed as more violent, more apt to say use welfare, maybe less intelligent – those are some of the prominent stereotypes fostered in mass media. Because of that, I would assume that in the case of protesters, it is the same thing,” he said.

In August of 2017, The Guardian reported on an FBI memo which deemed “black identity extremists” a violent threat.

The assessment, made in the bureau’s counter-terrorism unit, cited Micah Johnson, who shot and killed five police officers. Although Johnson was unaffiliated with Black Lives Matter, the vague definition has allowed them to be further targeted for federal monitoring.

“The very fact that we need a movement called black lives matter suggest that they don’t in this society,” Hutchings said. “The flip side is that white lives do matter.”

Kelly Mitchell, a student at UWM studying community engagement and education, said African-American protests are covered as dangerous in the media because African-American lives “don’t matter.”

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Hutchings noted that media coverage plays a big role in perpetuating or changing stereotypes.

“It’s easier for a majority white audience to identify with non-white people [so] it would take them being very conscious of their biases,” he said. “They would have to take very conscious steps to try and do the opposite of what they’ve spent a lifetime being trained to do,” he said.

The media, for its part, has noticed racial disparities in the coverage of gun violence and protests in response to that violence.

ABC News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Pro Publica, BBC, Huffington Post, Vox, Time, The Guardian, and PBS have all written stories noting that although African-Americans are disproportionately affected by gun violence, mass shootings of mainly white victims remain the greatest motivators for action on gun legislation.

Because the media helps shape public perception, Hutchings said they can broaden the focus of gun violence to be more inclusive. “You have to have an active awareness to produce positive coverage and to avoid unduly negative coverage of non-white and African-American communities in particular.”

“You can tell yourself, ‘I don’t go around with a sheet on my head burning crosses on my lawn, that means I’m a good person,’” he said, “[But] It’s not enough not to be a racist; you have to be an anti-racist.”

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“Kids may be only 25 percent of the population, but they’re 100 percent of the future,” Eder said.

One day after the March for Our Lives that occurred in cities across the country, more than 40 students from all over Wisconsin gathered in Madison to begin marching the 50 miles to Janesville. They chose this destination because it is the hometown of Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. The intention was to challenge him to act on gun reform.

Zaria Witticker is terrified of the threats facing young people in schools across the country.

“It’s a really important thing and change needs to happen,” said Witticker, a marcher from Eau Claire. “We have the awesome young voices from all across Wisconsin saying that we need to change so hopefully that will really inspire people.”

Eder had help organizing the march from several of her peers at Shorewood High School. They were inspired by the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.

“It’s scary but it takes a lot of strength for the young people that are stepping up and marching, especially marching 50 miles,” Eder said. “It takes a lot of strength in the face of all that fear to stand up and say, ‘I’m going to do something about this, and I have the power to do something about this.”

Several students from Shorewood gathered in Eder’s mother’s basement to plan logistics.

“We are very proud of Katie,” her mother, Laura Parachio, said. “We told our children to use their powers for good, and Katie has definitely used her powers for good.”

Eder and her fellow classmates organized the walk with the help from the activist organization MarchOn, which planned the Women’s March, and Urban Underground in Milwaukee. MarchOn strives to make change in politics at the federal, state and local levels by advocating for legislation and political candidates.

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“We have a lot of synergies between the two organizations,” Eder said.

The two share the same goal: to continue coverage of a major issue and not let it fade out of the media.

“How can we move forward? How can we keep the momentum going?” Eder said.

Eder is coordinating a launch of #50States along with the hashtag #50MilesMore, encouraging students from around the country to march 50 miles to the hometown of their representative and demand changes in gun control.

A dozen students marchers spoke at the rally in Traxler Park, calling out Paul Ryan in spoken poems and open letters. It was here where they made their requests known.

“These are demands that we believe are sensible and will surely decrease the number of deaths this issue causes,” 17-year-old Shorewood High School student Brenden Fardella said.

The march was four days long, with the students traveling 13 miles a day. Adult allies provided meals and snacks, and shuttled them back and forth for bathroom breaks along the way. They slept in high school gyms with sleeping bags.

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“Schools are really, really kind about it,” said Eder. “It’s during Spring Break and so the schools aren’t being used and so they kind of opened their doors and said ‘come stay, we’d be happy to have you.'”

The students from Shorewood High say they were inspired by the 54-mile march to Montgomery that occurred in 1965.

“The Civil Rights Movement was a time when people looked at the issue of equality for black Americans as something that was never going to happen and that was impossible,” Eder said. “That’s a word that was used a lot and is being used a lot now, that gun reform will never happen and that it’s an impossible cause.”

However, they’re not going to let that one word stop them from fighting for their goal.

“We’re trying to make the impossible possible and I truly believe that this is the time that it’s going to happen,” Eder said. “The young people are ready for change and we’re ready to fight to make it happen.”

While more than 40 students marched from Madison to Janesville, Eder was welcomed by around 1,000 people at the final destination: Traxler Park in Paul Ryan’s hometown.

The first of their three demands was a ban on all military-style weapons. Their second demand was a ban on accessories that turn semi-automatic weapons into automatic weapons. The third is a background check at any arms dealer, and an increase in age restrictions.

“It was really powerful. I’ve imagined this moment for the last month and a half and it was finally here and it finally happened,” Eder said. “It almost feels like a dream. It was everything I could have expected and more.”

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Patricia Herzog-Mesrobian strolled up and down the Amtrak train from Chicago to Washington, D.C. with a smile on her face, one of the more social passengers on the train.

Herzog-Mesrobian spent 16 years working as a nurse in New York, and she describes her time in the hospital as the most amazing gift she has ever been given. Although she is “very anti-gun,” Herzog-Mesrobian says mental health should be part of the gun control conversation.

“I would see, on a daily basis, people coming into the clinic and therapists doing amazing work,” Herzog-Mesrobian said. “They are the firefighters of mental health. They are metaphorically running into burning buildings.”

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Now, living on the East Side of Milwaukee, Herzog-Mesrobian devotes her time to the development of local children, working as a paraprofessional for the past 20 years at the Maple-Dale Indian Hill School District. Although the Maple Dale community has a strong sense of safety, she admits that the active shooter drills are scary for her students.

“Going to this march is changing my life,” Herzog-Mesrobian said. “I’m a parent and I’m out here for these kids.”

Herzog-Mesrobian has attended several large demonstrations in the past, from the 2017 Tax March to Get Out the Vote. The self-labeled activist tried to decide between attending the March for Our Lives in Madison or Milwaukee on Thursday morning, before buying a last-minute train ticket to the nation’s capital, since several members of her family planned to be in D.C. on the same weekend.

“Nothing was put in place. I just sort of went!” Herzog-Mesrobian said. “I don’t even know where I’m going to sleep tonight.”

Having three relatives who have served in the military, she describes her family as “all-American.” Her father served in the Army, her late twin brother served in the Navy, and her nephew is a Marine. She admits that politics can be a very touchy subject when talking with her family.

“You have to be really careful because we’re so polarized. People are very sensitive. I don’t even know how to ask my family who they voted for,” Herzog-Mesrobian said.

She said that activism is something that comes naturally, and she has caught the fever.

“My mom and dad were poll workers for years,” Herzog-Mesrobian said. “You need to do what you have to do to help, so I’m going to be out there for the first time knocking on doors for 2020.”

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“We don’t teach this to scare you, but to prepare you. Just in case,” said Rafferty told the crowd in room 191 in the Architecture and Urban Planning building one week after the shooting in Parkland Fl. “It doesn’t matter where you’re at, where you’ve been, your training, or your education. Don’t be naïve to the fact that this can happen to you.”

Each training session is around an hour long and highlights three main components: Avoid, Deny, Defend.

“You have to think, ‘Survivor mindset, avoid, deny, defend, what am I doing?” Rafferty said.

The avoid step involves staying as far away from the shooter as possible. With the Deny technique you would barricade all entrances and exits, denying the shooter from coming near you.

Rafferty urges all to only defend yourself if the first two steps are unsuccessful or impossible, unless you are properly trained in combat.

Officer Noel Ybarra of the UWM Police Department shared a description of the kinds of training they now undergo as new recruits.

“When we get hired, we all have to go through this exact same training. I’ve been through the Alert Training, it’s part of what we teach you, its hosted by the FBI and the University of Texas,” Ybarra said. “I’ve also been to Rescue Taskforce training, which prepares you for what to do after an active shooter event.”

“We go through training like this three, maybe four times annually,” Rafferty said.

This method is only one of many known training procedures and is very similar to the previously used technique: Run, Hide, Fight. The difference is the thought process involved from an individual standpoint. There are many other strategies to survive an active shooter situation, but Rafferty urges all to use whichever training they believe will keep them alive.

If there’s one thing Rafferty stressed more than anything, it’s that what you do is up to you.

“So many times we give you crime-prevention tips, we’re used to telling you what to do,” said Rafferty. “In this, I can’t tell you what to do.”

Rafferty recommends that students attend the Active Shooter Training, as well as the self-defense, and CPR courses offered on campus.

“You have to be prepared mentally and physically to deal with an active shooter and you tell yourself with a survivor mentality, ‘I will survive this incident’,” Rafferty said.

In addition to a detailed PowerPoint presentation, Officer Rafferty also played a Civilian Response to an Active
Shooter video during this training session. You can view the video here.

This training is aptly timed as gun violence is a major controversy in the US recently, with good cause.
“You see it on the news like I do people, this stuff is real,” Rafferty said.

According to a study by the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, shootings on college campuses have become more and more common. The research states that during just the 2015-2016 school year there were 30 shootings on college campuses. This is a rather large increase from only 12 during 2010-2011.

Although this seems like a tough subject to educate young people, Rafferty doesn’t mind at all.

“I like giving the information,” Rafferty said. “My main goal is first-of-all making sure everybody here at UWM is safe, and especially for the students making sure that they’re successful while they’re here. This is the best part about my job, giving this information and hoping that they retain it.”

Alyssa Josephs, a student attending the Active Shooter Training program said that the training increases her chances of surviving an active shooter situation.

“I feel like I will remain calmer in a situation, as calm as you can be whenever there is an active shooter present,” Josephs said.

The UWM Police Department now considers itself prepared for an active situation in comparison to only four years ago, when they received media attention for lack-of-lockdown drills, automatic text alerts, or even a public-address system.

UWM’s PantherVision team in 2014 was surprised to find out that UWM didn’t have adequate training for an active shooter after a man with a gun was seen entering Milwaukee Area Technical College, causing the campus to go into lockdown.

This raised questions about UWM’s lack of lockdown procedure, but that was how students were trained at the time. Officer Rafferty was quoted in an active shooter training in 2014 saying “If you lock down an active shooter, he’s locked down with you. He’s locked in the building with you. How are you going to run? How are you going to escape if the building is on lockdown?”

Although you can never fully prepare yourself for an active shooter situation, attending a training, and coming up with a plan can help.

You can find more information about these courses here.

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“It’s important that young people have to lead this movement because young people are the future,” said Resendiz. “We need to decide what kind of world we want to live in and raise our kids in.”

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Across the country, at least 30 cities participated in the “March for Our Lives” rallies held last Saturday March 24, 2018. Milwaukee Police Department officers estimated that 2,500 people attended Milwaukee’s “March for Our Lives” event that started on the south side of the Milwaukee County Courthouse and ended downtown at Red Arrow Park. While attendees included teachers, parents, grandparents, the march was led by high school students.

The student-organized marches are a response to the school shooting that occurred on Feb. 14, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,Florida. This was the 7^th school shooting in 2018 and resulted in 17 people dead.  Victims included 14 students and three staff members, making it the one of the deadliest school shooting following Sandy Hook with 26, and Virginia Tech with 32 victims.

Students from Milwaukee’s Rufus King high school and Shorewood High School rallied crowds as the courthouse courtyard began to fill. Joined with the protesters were family members of Dontre Hamilton, who was fatally shot by a police officer at Red Arrow Park, family members of the Sikh Temple shooting victims, and Mayor Tom Barrett.

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Students are represented as the forefront and core of this movement on gun reform. Students have also been responsible for organizing walk-outs at their respective schools since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Students are calling for stricter gun laws and actions from elected officials. Wauwatosa East students Casey Dobson and Melis Kaplan attended the march this afternoon in protest.

“We won’t be silenced,” said Dobson. “They think they can offer empty words. but we won’t let it happen.”

Dobson and Kaplan expressed how it is important as high school students to act and voice their opinions because it is their peers who are being targeted in these attacks.

“I hope it will raise awareness and people will realize the extremity of this,” said Kaplan. “Something has to change.”

By protesting and raising awareness, the students are hoping to bring attention to how current gun laws affects students across the country.

“There’s this certain feeling of invisibility,” said Kaplan. “People don’t think it’ll happen to them. It’ll keep happening.

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Protesters were greeted with free Dunkin’ Donuts and marching signs. “MOMS DEMAND ACTION,” “MARCH FOR OUR LIVES,” and “WE CAN END GUN VIOLENCE” posters were handed out on the corner of 10^th and Wisconsin with volunteers also stationed throughout the courthouse grounds. Many protesters also came with homemade “Arms are for Hugs” and signs protesting President Donald Trump’s suggestion to put guns in schools by arming teachers.

Retired Milwaukee Public school teacher Henry Kranendon gets choked up while addressing the school shooting.

“I can’t imagine what teenagers are going through,” said Kranendon. “It’s hard to talk without crying.

Kranendon has three grandkids and gets emotional when thinking about their future. He taught at Rufus King High School for 30 years and reflects on how much students feared getting a security guard who was intended for the safety and escorting students going between classes. He advocates for fewer guns around students and himself for safety.

“I don’t want to own a gun,” said Kranendon. “You want to feel safe by owning a gun, I want to feel safe for being a person without one.”

Before the walk started, a communal prayer was led by the family members of the Sikh temple shooting victims. Organizers placed students in the front leading the march, with parents, teachers and supporters following. This allowed them to represent the importance of children being the leaders of the future. Organizers and students led the march under the courthouse overpass over to State Street, then east towards Red Arrow Park.

As people arrived at Red Arrow Park, they gathered around the ice rink and were welcomed by organizers. Volunteers from the League of Women Voters in yellow hats were present to assist attendees in registration and early voting at City Hall.

The night of the march, students made their way to Madison, Wisconsin. Students marched “50 Miles More” from Madison to Janesville, Wisconsin, the hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan. The march was organized by Shorewood High School students and lasted four days. The march is directed towards Paul Ryan for his positions on gun reform.

Having a candidate who shares the same values is what students said they hope to achieve. Protesters are urging people, especially their young 18-year old peers, to go out and vote. Their intent was the same as their tag line on many of their posters: change gun laws or change Congress.

“We have the potential to make a change,” said Resendiz. “Not just by marching, but by voting good politicians and lawmakers into office.

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She arrived in Washington, D.C. late Friday evening on March 23 and made a stop in DuPont, an affluent sector of the city to meet Marjory Stoneman Douglas Alumna who currently attends the University of Alabama and organized a homestay program so she and several of her friends could attend the National Gun March the following afternoon

Myers was a high school English teacher for 24 years and sat on the school board in Janesville, Wisconsin.

“Kids and guns don’t mix. Guns in schools don’t mix,” said Myers.

Myers said that the issue of guns has been incredibly important for a long time. She has been through active shooter drills and says that such drills are traumatizing to students, in her school district they would have teachers use airsoft guns to add a level of seriousness to their Active Shooter Drills.

“Teachers? Bearing arms? That is the most ridiculous thing I have heard in my whole life,” said Myers. “I’m here to teach. I got into this job to be able to have an incredible impact on young people I did not get into this job to potentially take someone’s life. I just don’t think that’s what we sign up for.”

She said if teachers were to bare arms law enforcement might have a difficult time distinguishing between the assailant and the individuals working to protect the school. Myers finds it so lopsided that politicians look to schools to solve this issue.

“We don’t even have proper school supplies. Do you think that when push comes to shove they will really be able to provide us or be willing to provide us with proper training,” said Myers.

Myers finds the issues surrounding gun control complex but says the solutions lie in universal background checks, banning military style assault weapons, limiting clip sizes as well as reversing the Dickey Amendment, which bans the Center for Disease Control from looking at intersections of guns and mental health.

Myers said that the young people inspire her, that she is proud to teach them and proud to know them. She emphasized that this is a historical movement and moment in time.

“I hope that this keeps the issue in the face of politicians who are not acting,” said Myers.

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