Over 30 students took to the street to call for gun reform in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting. They held up signs that read “Protect me, not your machines of violence” and chanted “No more silence, end the violence.” They are tired of politicians who offer “thoughts and prayers” without making the tiniest effort to change gun legislation so that people with a history of domestic violence aren’t able to buy weapons before they can buy beer.
These students aren’t even old enough to vote and yet they seem to have a more substantial opinion that they are willing to fight for then the politicians that seem to run the White House. Young students, actual people, who once had lives and family and a future, are gone. They are dead and there’s no coming back from that. Just think about the reality of that situation. I know that on a global scale their deaths are nothing but a blip on a daily percentage of lives lost. But no one should ever have to worry about not coming home from school one day. I understand that their are cases in which someone might need a gun for self defense, I mean I have one in my house, but we should be able to prevent these machines of mass destruction from getting in the hands of a teenager with a record otherwise what hope do we really have.
https://www.refinery29.com/2018/02/191078/high-school-students-protest-florida-shooting
It's cool seeing people my age take a stance and defend/protest against gun violence, even though they can't vote against it.
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