Explain to me what is today, because this is the only thing I can see:
Thousands, thousands and thousands of students who rose up in protest.
Maybe a million. Maybe millions.
Students, teenagers, CHILDREN. Protesting their right to live. To draw attention to the fact that adults have failed them. Adults have failed them again, and again, for 19 years. Since a fateful day in April, 1999, when 13 people died and Americans did nothing.
The pattern repeats itself. Over and over, until Sandy Hook. 20 children are shot and die. Their ages are between 6 and 7.
America does nothing.
Stoneman Douglas literally one month ago. Another 17 students are shot dead, another 17 wounded. In the face of despair, and the agony of what they shared, those same teenagers now are demanding MORE. They are rising up, they are angry and RIGHTLY so.
They have been failed, and they recognize it. You have a country where a dude tried to blow up his shoes and now we all check our shoes before we go on an airplane. But the response to a gun in a school was to arm every teacher.
No one believes it. The NRA has become an organization lobby for the profit of itself and to maintain its stranglehold grip on power by any means necessary.
Including sacrificing children.
The only thing I see is thousands of children taking to the streets begging adults to do something so that they don't have to live in fear, so they don't have to bury their peers, so they don't have to be afraid every day that they can't even be protected.
And instead, the adults have to a person turned their backs and said:
"You are less important to us than profit."
1988 to 2018 (photo cred to @M_uh_lee) pic.twitter.com/9xdZLgJuvJ— Anna Swartz (@Anna_Snackz) March 14, 2018
Read this sign, then make change.#NationalWalkoutDay pic.twitter.com/5u029sCMAO— Simar (@sahluwal) March 14, 2018
What we saw on #NationalWalkoutDay inspired us. From walkouts, we march on. See you March 24th pic.twitter.com/QbDwudazTa— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) March 15, 2018
Students at a Los Angeles school held a die-in spelling #ENOUGH with their bodies as a gong sounded 17 times, one for each student killed in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting https://t.co/06T5j07Czb pic.twitter.com/OGNcwLJBel— CNN (@CNN) March 14, 2018
Powerful: Hundreds of #Baltimore Poly students laying on ground to honor 17 victims killed in FL shooting & to push for stricter gun laws #NationalSchoolWalkout #NationalWalkoutDay #WalkoutWednesday pic.twitter.com/0pSFht6tVN— Rick Ritter (@RickRitterWJZ) March 14, 2018
Mt. Diablo High students break through locked gates to participate in gun violence walkout https://t.co/ScTcMofALi pic.twitter.com/eyRYINKFUK— Mercury News (@mercnews) March 14, 2018
Today, students are making history—by walking out of class nationwide to bring attention to gun reform. We're heartbroken it has come to this, but so proud & inspired by #NationalWalkOutDay: https://t.co/5FiSbz4D1g— idobi Radio (@idobiradio) March 14, 2018
📷: #NeverAgain via @AMarch4OurLives Facebook pic.twitter.com/LtHiO0HA8b
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