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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware.
The parkland students have done more than most politicians in a very short time. The NRA actually fears them. Their tears at first for the loss. Then there was their activism. They took on gun violence. They are shouting at the top of their lungs.
The survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., have broken through a decades-long stalemate in the gun-control debate in ways that no other group of survivors has been able to.
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The state of technology also played a big role. The Columbine High School shooting happened so long ago that students didnt have social media apps on their phone no Twitter, no Facebook, no Snapchat. The first iPhone wouldnt launch for another eight years. That informational vacuum made it difficult for Americans far from Colorado to truly grasp what had just happened, to hear and see and feel the anguish those students were facing.
The Parkland shooting happened in real time. One student posted a video from the floor of his classroom, allowing Americans into that room to hear the gunshots, to hear the cries of those terrified students even as the gunman remained at large.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/22/parkland-survivors-started-movement-when-they-took-gun-violence-heres-how-happened/361297002/
This posted by AmandaRuth
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210956571
I am so tired of people moaning and wringing their hands saying what are you doing for me!? You need me to vote. You need to tell me what you can do for me. You need to paint a pretty picture for me. No thanks. No whiners. Just look at the Parkland students if you need a reason to vote. They are just children and they are going to vote and they sure as hell do not need someone to plead with them. They understand what is at stake. Their lives.
2018 and 2020 is coming. You polititans love your guns? You are going to lose.
What's that sound? The children are coming for you.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Link: https://www.elitedaily.com/p/what-is-road-to-change-the-parkland-students-have-a-new-campaign-9289409
And, this is their web site showing tour locations, who they are, what they stand for and what we can do to help:
March for Our Lives
Link: https://marchforourlives.com/tour/
We love those kids and all others standing with them..... .......
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Yes, there are more important things to worry about than Pedro y Maria stealing the crummy jobs we never wanted in the first place.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)I haven't heard that kind of music in 30 years or more.