Sunday, April 9, 2023

Taking it to the Streets

A thousand Nashville, Tennessee high school students walked out of class last Monday, April 3rd. They marched to the State Capitol to protest the Covenant School massacre. As everyone knows by now, three nine-year old kids and three sixty-something adults were brutally murdered by a heavily armed person who was, in turn, killed by two incredibly brave officers. 

The mind-numbing details of all these mass murders run together. There is no reason to discuss them any further here, except to say that guns are the number one killer of children in the United States (5.6 per 100000, versus an average of .3 in peer countries.)

45,222 kids under eighteen died by firearms in 2020. Think about that. 45,222 little caskets. 45,222 funerals. 45,222 broken-beyond-repair families.

What can be done? Background checks. Red flag laws. Banning civilian purchase of assault rifles and bump stocks. Our representatives in Congress, and our Senators, the ones we all voted in to act, to do something, either don't have the numbers to enact meaningful legislation, or, even worse, just refuse to.

It's time for a National Day of Protest. Every high school in all fifty states, not just the blue ones, follow the example of your brothers and sisters in Nashville. Organize on social media. Pick a day (or two, or three) and walk out. Refuse to go back until you are heard. 

And we will walk with you.


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