WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION! Saturday’s MARCH FOR OUR LIVES in nearly every major US city and several locations around the world delivered a very powerful message: today’s youth are social activists, are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about the issues, and are locked and loaded and ready to fight to the death for what they believe in.
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From Dallas to Denver, San Antonio to San Francisco, New York to New Orleans, and directly down Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC, more than a million of America’s youth and their parents participated in the very special MARCH FOR OUR LIVES event. Even citizens in Austria, Canada, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom took to the streets of their respective countries in support of the American movement. Collectively, the message was clear: if the adults in power refuse to protect kids, then the kids have no choice but to step up and protect themselves and DEMAND gun reform in the US in order to save their own lives.
The moment was simply unprecedented. By their participation in the MARCH FOR OUR LIVES, the youth of America exclaimed that they’re TIRED of going to school without knowing if they will live to see the end of the school day. They’re TIRED of seeing the kindergarteners of Sandy Hook or the students of Parkland killed by military-grade assault rifles and buried before their lives have even begun. They’re TIRED of Republican politicians being puppets of the NRA and doing nothing to stop the slaughter of young, innocent lives. They’re TIRED of everyone offering their “thoughts and prayers” without offering any real solutions or changes to existing gun laws in order to stop the violence and save lives!
In DC, 9-year-old Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., told the crowd that she dreams of “a gun-free world, period.”
In Parkland, Samantha Fuentes, who took a bullet to the thigh and whose face was ripped by shrapnel during the shooting, was so overcome with emotion during her impassioned speech, that she had to pause to vomit.
“I just threw up on international television, and it feels great!” Fuentes said after puking her feelings out.
Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez stood silently at the microphone with tears streaming down her face for 6 minutes — the exact amount of time it took the Parkland shooter to kill more than a dozen of her classmates during the deadly massacre.
From march to march and state to state, the message from the youth to US politicians was crystal clear: change the gun laws NOW, or else you will be voted out of office and replaced with legislators who will!
“If they continue to ignore us … we will take action every day in every way until they simply cannot ignore us anymore,” Parkland student Delaney Tarr says at #MarchForOurLives. pic.twitter.com/HPZr9FHFVg
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That message resonated powerfully with Republican donor Al Hoffman Jr., who announced the launch of an advocacy organization that will force Congress to pass comprehensive gun control.
“Americans for Gun Safety Now! is honored to stand in solidarity with the thousands of students, including survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, to rally for change in our nation’s capital,” Hoffman said in a statement.
Hoffman, who is the former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, added that he intends to withhold donor money from politicians who refuse to support an assault weapons ban.
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After remaining eerily silent for most of Saturday, the National Rifle Association finally emerged from underneath a rock to proclaim that the MARCH FOR OUR LIVES was orchestrated by billionaires and Hollywood and merely used kids to push an anti-gun agenda.
“Stand and Fight for our Kids’ Safety by Joining NRA,” the group said Saturday on Facebook. “Today’s protests aren’t spontaneous. Gun-hating billionaires and Hollywood elites are manipulating and exploiting children as part of their plan to DESTROY the Second Amendment and strip us of our right to defend ourselves and our loved ones.”
Additionally, conspiracy theorists on NRA TV referred to the MARCH FOR OUR LIVES as “A march for their lies.” They also pressed the (old and predictable) narrative that because the Parkland students are so well-spoken and articulate that they must be paid crisis actors.
“Anyone who saw me in my school’s production of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ knows that nobody would pay me to act for anything,” Parkland student Cameron Kasky said in response.
The MARCH FOR OUR LIVES movement has begun. Unlike the generation before them, today’s youth are eager and active participants in the political process. They care about the issues. They care about their lives. They refuse to take NO for an answer.
Could this be the generation that finally makes a difference?
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Saturday’s MARCH FOR OUR LIVES in nearly every major US city and several locations around the world delivered a very powerful message: today’s youth are social activists, are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about the issues, and are locked and loaded and ready to fight to the death for what they believe in. […] -DJ Great post DJ, from start to finish, you hit it OUT the park! Frankly, after what WE (the entire world) just witnessed this past weekend I’d say THIS is what a True “PRO-Life” movement looks like. These kids are fighting not just for their own lives but for the lives of ALL of us…Every living American. And you’ve put it quite right: “They refuse to take NO for an answer.” Their message, their commitment, their fight…it’s all REAL. You can see it. You can hear it. You can feel it deep down inside. You asked “Could… Read more »