Today, half a million people expected to throng Washington DC for March for Our Lives, a youth-led rally calling time on gun violence in America. Among these people will be several grieving parents who sent their children to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) on February 14 but got only bullet-riddled bodies back.
A youngster, Robert, 18 said:
“There are a lot of communities that gun violence has affected disproportionately for a long time and their voices haven’t been heard — kids in places like Chicago who’ve been crying out for years, but where getting shot is something that happens every day.
“Parkland was declared the safest community in Florida the week of the shooting, it’s affluent, it was somewhere people thought it couldn’t happen. Now our voices can help to raise all those others that haven’t been listened to and send a message that we’re all here, collectively, to fight for the right to not get shot. This is a march for all our lives.”
Hopefully, members of the NRA will be watching and listening.
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