We call BS

This study guide will help you analyze the speech “We call BS” (2018) by X González (then known as Emma González). In addition to help for your analysis, you can find a summary of the text and ideas for putting it into perspective.

X González (b. 1999 as Emma González) is an American activist and gun control advocate best known for the viral speech against gun violence, “We call BS”, delivered in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, which was the deadliest high school shooting in US history. González also delivered a speech at the March for Our Lives, a student-led demonstration in support of gun control legislation that took place in Washington DC in the same year.

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Most importantly, González’s speech brings attention to their determination and desire to bring about change:

We are going to be the kids you read about in textbooks. Not because we’re going to be another statistic about mass shooting in America, but because, just as David said, we are going to be the last mass shooting. Just like Tinker v. Des Moines, we are going to change the law.

Overall, González comes across as an impassioned and determined speaker, who is purposeful ...