Sweet and Bitter Sweet

[sheshe2]

Friday Open Thread | National Walkout Day in Pictures
Posted on March 16, 2018 by SouthernGirl2



Thousands of local students march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the US Capitol during a nationwide student walkout for gun control in Washington, DC, March 14, 2018. Students across the US walked out of classes on March 14, in a nationwide call for action against gun violence following the shooting deaths last month at a Florida high school. The nationwide protest is being held one month to the day after Nikolas Cruz, a troubled 19-year-old former student at Stoneman Douglas, unleashed a hail of gunfire on his former classmates. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)



Thousands of local students sit for 17 minutes in honor of the 17 students killed last month in a high school shooting in Florida, during a nationwide student walkout for gun control in front the White House in Washington, DC, March 14, 2018. Students across the US walked out of classes on March 14, in a nationwide call for action against gun violence following the shooting deaths last month at a Florida high school. The nationwide protest is being held one month to the day after Nikolas Cruz, a troubled 19-year-old former student at Stoneman Douglas, unleashed a hail of gunfire on his former classmates. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

All pictures here: https://3chicspolitico.com/2018/03/16/friday-open-thread-national-walkout-day-in-pictures/

They are our children and need to be protected at all costs. They are our future. They sat for 17 minutes for those that died.

Sit with them, then stand with them and tell the NRA to go to hell.

[sheshe2]

1. Think about this.

Some schools have put students in detention for walking out. For fighting for their very lives. The students ask for one thing. Protect us.

[WhiteTara]

2. In Arkansas, they were struck with paddles!

Only 2 brave souls stood up and said enough and now they are victims of corporal punishment.

[Cha]

3. Shine the Light on the KIDS!

Mahalo, she

[sheshe2]

4. Aren't they all our children?

Yes they are, Cha.

Precious children. Bright future. They are the ones.

[Cha]

5. Oh yes they are.. they're all our KIDS

who actually care about KIDS.

Every time I read something about these KIDS I start crying softly.. They've been through HELL and back and on and on.. and they've HAD IT. ENOUGH.

I can imagine how appreciate President Obama is for them as well as we are

[sheshe2]

8. Yes they are Cha.

I cry softly too.

Did you read the other day...a child wrote a will in case they died at school. That breaks my heart. That child should never have the need to do that. No child should live with that fear.

[Cha]

9. I did see that.. they know

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that the shit is real.. and they're the target.

[sheshe2]

10. Huge hug.

[Ohiogal]

6. Protect Children, Not Guns.

[sheshe2]

7. Sigh.

Yes.

It should be that simple.