March For Our Lives
Trevor Noah and The Opposition ask students what they want from Saturday's March For Our Lives
Trevor Noah got serious on Thursday's Daily Show, sitting down with five students who survived the murder of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and asking them what they hope happens next. Students from the school have spearheaded a national push for new gun laws, and they are leading a March For Our Lives in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
The five students Noah spoke with did not agree on what should happen next. Carly Novell supported banning assault rifles and raising the age to purchase guns to 21, while Josh Belenke didn't support gun control and would like to see more armed adults at school but backed "gun violence restraining orders" like they have in California. Kai Koerber opposed armed teachers and any "lethal weapons" at school, he said. "I don't want to seem like that guy, but me being a minority in the South, having a teacher have a gun, regardless of color, does not make me feel comfortable." Mostly, the students wanted people to remember that they are still in pain.
Parkland is an affluent, mostly white community, but students in Baltimore are also being bussed in to the march. The Opposition's Kobi Libii went and trolled Baltimore's mayor and then spoke with black students in a Baltimore school where eight students were shot dead in just the last year, asking them why they are joining their peers from Florida on Saturday.
Jordan Klepper and the rest of the Opposition team were at a home in the D.C. area that's housing students coming in for the march. "I'm not going to lecture at you guys," Klepper told them. "I just want to listen — to myself lecture with you guys." The students mostly said "yes!" multiple times when Klepper asked them if they really want to ban assault rifles, but they will get their say on Saturday. Watch below. Peter Weber