Enacting gun control is more commonsense

I grew up steeped in semi-rural Western Pennsylvania gun culture, and many of my Saturday mornings in high school were spent at the shooting range with my dad.

And that brings us to the other reason Saturday’s protest felt like a turning point: yes, you heard the usual catchphrases and slogans that have marked other gun reform rallies, but they were accompanied-even overshadowed-by an even more important message the crowd chanted between speakers: “Vote them out”. Others were grassroots efforts, organized by a few volunteers armed with posters and loudspeakers.

“That’s a testimony to what happens when young people are given opportunities and I think all institutions have to think about how do we tap into that creativity and that energy and that drive”, he said.

She’s hopeful the push for stronger gun laws following the school shooting in Florida will lead to change. This is only the beginning, and together we can create a better future for all of us.

McCartney said his decision to take part in the New York City rally was prompted by the 1980 Manhattan shooting death of John Lennon, his former Beatles bandmate.

Wadler concluded her speech to help “tell the stories that aren’t told”. Our voices are growing louder and more forceful.

“We have a lot of people who are inspired”, said Kobey Lofton, a student from Chicago’s South Side who also traveled overnight to Washington on Friday with 12 busloads of fellow students and adults. The 16-year-old boy from the morning shooting also was expected to survive.

Pierce said marching is a way to make student voices heard.

Wagner, of Easton, joined a small group of gun rights supporters who stood on North Third Street in Easton, watching the protest and waving signs supporting the Second Amendment. One of them was Levi Castleberry who was wearing a Donald Trump campaign cap.

“Over the summer we’re going to try to go around to colleges and.reach out to the kids locally around the country”.

“This is truly a revolution”, said Goodman, a sophomore at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were gunned down last month. She said school safety drills are not enough.

Students from Crestview, Lincolnview, and Van Wert all spoke, as well as a teacher from a Lima school and a teacher from Paulding. Here is one statement taken from NRA-TV’s Grant Stinchfield: “The Women’s March, a major force behind the anti-gun March for Our Lives, is led by radicals who threaten to blow up the White House, sexually smear the First Daughter, honor cop killers, advocate for jihad, Sharia and female genital mutilation and adhere to the violent, threatening rhetoric of the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan”.

Event organizers are calling it the “March for Our Guns”. In a matter of hours, he said the groups registered almost 5,000 people, many of them millennials. They said most teachers have supported the potential walkout, but some disagree. According to Filipowski, he has been able to tag along with her to some discussions regarding gun violence at the state capitol building. She feels current gun legislation is too lax.

Referencing her grandfather’s most famous speech, she said: “My grandfather had a dream that his four little children would not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character”. “Guns should not be the exception”. “I represent the African-American women who are victims of gun violence, who are simply statistics instead of vibrant, attractive girls full of potential”. This time, the American people, the National Rifle Association, and our elected officials were the object of their frustrations and fears. Hearing members of the community speak, she said, gave her hope that change will come soon.

“I’m OK with guns but I don’t think that kids should feel unsafe in their schools”, Hodges said. “This is something we’re going to be engaged in fighting long-term”. With school shootings occurring almost every month, students, with the support of their families and teachers, are now making their voices heard.