On March 24th, the “March for Our Lives,” organized by Stoneman Douglass High School students who lost 17 classmates when a former student went on a shooting rampage in February, brought together hundreds of thousands of protesters in Washington D.C. and New York City as well as all other cities and towns in the nation.
In New York City alone, approximately 175,000 protesters rallied in support of stricter gun control. Instead of politicians, speakers directly affected by gun violence took the stage. Young people, families with little children, a mother wiping away the tears of her young boy and holding him tight while listening to the accounts of the speakers, wise people (some call them seniors), celebrities like Paul McCartney, they all come together to send a message to the NRA and politicians who are in the pockets of the NRA: the buck stops here.
The “March for Our Lives” message is simple: stop the NRA and America’s obsession with guns which kill 96 Americans every single day, and ban assault weapons. In a very brief period, the movement, or revolution as some of its leaders have coined it, has achieved what adults have failed to accomplish: they have ignited a long overdue fight and serious debate about gun control.
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