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Sarah Chadwick (born August 1, 2001) is an American
activist Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from mandate build ...
against
gun violence Gun-related violence is violence against a person committed with the use of a firearm to inflict a gunshot wound. Gun violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable ...
and one of the leaders of the
Never Again MSD Never Again MSD is an American student-led political action committee for gun control that advocates for tighter regulations to prevent gun violence. The organization, also known by the Twitter hashtags #NeverAgain, and #EnoughIsEnough, was f ...
activist movement.


Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

On the day of the shooting, she described how she saw dozens of police cars arriving at the scene, while some of her friends were texting her from classrooms near the gunshots. In a televised interview, she stated that "never again should a child be afraid to go to school."


Activism

A report in ''
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'' described her and fellow student
Jaclyn Corin Jaclyn Corin (born October 27, 2000) is an American activist against gun violence and the current Executive Director of March for Our Lives as of March 2025. She survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. She is one of the co-fo ...
as "fierce" and particularly skilled at
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, effectively generating "8.7 times to volume of online conversations than the celebrities," according to a marketing analysis of the tweets of the Parkland students. She had a Twitter following of 150,000 people as of February 24, 2018. She has used satire and sarcasm to advance her agenda against
gun violence Gun-related violence is violence against a person committed with the use of a firearm to inflict a gunshot wound. Gun violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable ...
. She is opposed to the
National Rifle Association of America The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States. Founded in 1871 to advance rifle marksmanship, the modern NRA has become a prominent Gun politics in the United States, gun rights ...
as well as politicians who get funding from the NRA. According to a report in ''
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'', Chadwick has been particularly effective in tweets to mock pro-gun politicians such as
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: When President
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offered condolences, she shot back with a tweet that went viral with 4,300 comments before it was removed: When NRA spokesperson
Dana Loesch Dana Lynn Loesch ( ; ; born September 28, 1978) is an American radio and television host, TV host. She is a former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and a former writer and editor for ''Breitbart News''. Loesch was the television ho ...
posted a video saying that "your time is up", Chadwick posted a video response, using the hourglass meme:


Personal life

Chadwick identifies as a lesbian, telling ''
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'' sister magazine ''Them'', "I'm gay, so I'm a lesbian." ''
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'' described Chadwick and fellow Never Again MSD co-founder
X González X González (born Emma González; November 11, 1999) is an American activist and advocate for gun politics in the United States, gun control. In 2018, they survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the list of school shootings in the ...
as "part of the
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family". She is also
pro-choice Abortion-rights movements, also self-styled as pro-choice movements, are movements that advocate for legal access to induced abortion services, including elective abortion. They seek to represent and support women who wish to terminate their ...
. She is studying
political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
and
citizenship Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term ''citizenship'' to refer to nationalit ...
at
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. Diana Riojas, April 2019, The Daily Orange (Syracuse student newspaper)
Parkland shooting activist, Sarah Chadwick balances advocacy, student life
Retrieved April 21, 2021


See also

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2018 United States gun violence protests In 2018, protests against gun violence in the United States increased after a series of mass shootings, most notably at the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14 that year. An organized protes ...
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Never Again MSD Never Again MSD is an American student-led political action committee for gun control that advocates for tighter regulations to prevent gun violence. The organization, also known by the Twitter hashtags #NeverAgain, and #EnoughIsEnough, was f ...


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Video response to Dana Loesch
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