Well-organized student gun control group gets celeb support, millions in donations

By Chris Eger

The students associated with the March for Our Lives organization have become a fixture on television in recent days. (Photo: Screengrab of Ellen Show)
The March for Our Lives group, founded two weeks ago, already counts a number of high-profile celebrity donors and a large war chest for gun control efforts.
Founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Cameron Kasky, 17, days after a shooting that killed over a dozen at his Parkland, Florida school, crowd-funding for the effort hit $2.6 million in just seven days from 32,000 contributors. This does not include millions more in pledges from Hollywood celebrities George and Amal Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, who each promised the campaign $500,000. Gucci chipped in another half-million.
The group has launched a slick website, registered just three days after the shooting, began selling merchandise, and expanded to social media. Stoneman Douglas student Emma González, well-known for her 11-minute speech at a Ft. Lauderdale gun control rally, managed to pick up 928,000 followers on Twitter this month.
“The mission and focus of March For Our Lives is to demand that a comprehensive and effective bill be immediately brought before Congress to address

Source: Guns.com