Well…with the huge march yesterday against gun violence across the country and the world, a realization came to me about the hidden damage that this violence causes that no one talks about. Since the shootings at Columbine, there have been over 180,000 kids who have been in a school shooting situation….and what hidden damage has this done to these poor kids? Why should they have to live their lives with this pain just so a few white guys get to keep their killing machines? Can you imagine it? Every day having to live with their fear and panic…and even ones who have not been in a shooting still live with it…with the shelter in place and active shooter drills…can you remember being in grade school? Now add to that your teacher explaining to you that there could be a killer coming in the school to get you so you have to learn how to hide from him? How could a 5 or 6 or 7 year old deal with that? Why should they HAVE to deal with that? Just so a few white guys can have the same firepower as the army has? Every other damn amendment to the constitution has been altered over time as the society has evolved so why not the 2nd? Don’t give me the crap that you need all those guns to protect yourself from the government or from crime…do you think a few idiots with AR-15′s are going to take on the US army? And, crime is down sharply across this country except by guys that just have to prove how tough they are by lugging their guns around everywhere they go….and it doesn’t make you tough…tough is going through your life unafraid…and unarmed….and standing up for a safer, saner America even after 17 of your friends and teachers are gunned down in front of your eyes…that is tough…something the gun nuts will never understand…
Tag Archives: march for our lives
A million people!
Well…have been following the coverage of the march for our lives today and I am just so proud of the people who have had enough and are showing the NRA and their lackeys that their time is up…and it was just announced that there are over a million people marching in DC…a million frickin people! Five times the people who were at the idiot trump’s inauguration…in NYC, Paul McCartney is leading the march since his friend, John Lennon, was killed with a gun and it is just time to say enough…no more damn guns everywhere….
When I was out on the bike today, the perfect song came on…”five to one” by the Doors:
“The old get old and the young get stronger, may take a week or it may take longer, they got the guns but we got the numbers, gonna win, yeah we’re takin’ over…Come on!
The march for their lives…
Well….have just been watching the news coverage of the huge marches going on across the country to show how much support there is for sensible gun law reform in this country. Hundreds of thousands of people are marching in DC, rivaling the largest turnouts for any issue in history…and there are rallies and marches going on in over 800 cities across this country as well as across the globe where youngsters are showing their support of the youth of this country who are going up against the NRA and their bought and paid for legislators who won’t even talk about what can be done to keep any more kids from being slaughtered. This has a feel to it of real change….that it is the start of something new…that millions of young voters are not going to let these murders happen anymore….one heartening thing is that over 60% of the young voters identify as dems and that has to have the NRA and it’s lackeys shaking in their boots since this is the largest generation in the electorate…but it is not just gun control, if we can keep this new generation engaged there can be sanity restored and finally we can consign the repubs to the ash heap of history where they belong….go kids!