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SANDERS: "I think they have created an imperative that something has to be done. Furthermore, look, John, institutions have never brought us the change that we would like to see in this world on their own. They have always been pushed. I’m actually not confident that Congress is going to do what they need to do, and, you know, in cahoots with the White House, without being pushed and backed into a corner. That’s what the young students from parkland, Florida, are going to do. They’re not just marching on Washington, they are walking out of school, they are organizing, and they will not be silent. And I think these young people are the young folks that are going to finally push Congress over the edge and back them in a corner and cause them to give us some legislative relief when it comes to guns. Nobody is talking about taking away Second Amendment rights. It is a freaking amendment in the — it is an amendment in the Constitution. No one is talking about changing that. But what we are talking about doing is making our schools safer, our streets safer and, again, over 90% of Americans support comprehensive universal background checks. Semi-automatic weapons are weapons of war. They do not believe in the streets of our cities. These are common sense things that Congress can’t get through their heads, so young people are going to push this change forward. These are the radical revolutionaries we need. These are the young folks we have been waiting for."