March for our lives
March 24th, 2018 at 9:50:03 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
This reminds me of contests they had in the 60's (maybe still do) where young kids would write slobbery pie in the sky essays about how their world would be sooooo much better than their parents world in every way. Adults would be weeping at some of the arrogant little shits words. 40 years later, after a life of 3 divorces, kids that hate them, addictions to drugs, depression and attempted suicides, and everything else that goes wrong in life, we see the best thing to do when kids like these in the videos speak, is roll our eyes and say, whatever... If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 24th, 2018 at 10:05:32 PM permalink | |
beachbumbabs Member since: Sep 3, 2013 Threads: 6 Posts: 1600 |
The Parkland kids organized it, raised the money by selling tshirts online and asking for donations on social media. Most of the DC crowd was local area, but there were over 800 other cities where they marched in solidarity. The Emma Gonzalez (think that's her name) girl, the one with the shaved head who spoke last, was the lead in doing it. Same girl that did the speech right after the slaughter and got all the sound bite replays for a couple of days. The acts were all either active in gun control already or reached out to the school kids. There were people from already organized groups for Sandy Hook families, Columbine families, and Chicago anti-gun families. It shouldn't be forgotten that Jennifer Hudson's mom.and brother were murdered by a gunman, or that Ariana Grande had that terrorist blow people up at her London concert. They both performed today. The longer the NRA and gun people push off doing something meaningful, the more organized and angrier everybody else is getting. Which means when the dam breaks, it's going to be much worse for them than if they had found common ground after Columbine. Or after Aurora. Or after Sandy Hook. Or after Pulse. Or after that Texas church. Or after Virginia Tech. Or after Charleston AME. Or after dozens of others. That junior college on the Oregon coast. The mall near Seattle. The mosque in Wisconsin. The high school in Baltimore. In Arkansas. In Atlanta. In Kentucky. Or even Las Vegas. A dog died on a United flight last week after being stuffed in the overhead compartment at the flight attendant's insistence. 48 hours later, there was a bill in front of Congress outlawing pets being put in overhead bins. 1 death of a pet. 2 days. Thoughts and prayers are plentiful, though. Bless your hearts. I'm sure that matters to the 26,000 dead children and teens killed with guns since Columbine. The 187,000 children who were in their school when someone came in shooting since Columbine. 19 years of this; no wonder 10 million kids marched today all over the country. What has that atmosphere done to them, growing up with this stuff happening all the time? Most of us here were adults in 1999; we process it differently. Their outrage is real, and their rejection of it being inevitable, or a "reasonable" price to pay for gun ownership is going to change the conversation. Thank God. About time. Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has |
March 24th, 2018 at 10:21:13 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18756 |
From what I heard, thousands also registered to vote at the rallies. It's not necessarily good to create a whole bunch of motivated one issue voters, but that represents the failure, like you say, to do anything useful. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
March 24th, 2018 at 10:48:17 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Remove those killed in Chicago and killed by suicide and accidentally, what's that number now. That's what I thought.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 25th, 2018 at 1:05:27 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
They strike me as honest kids I believe them Why would they lie? Just as Trump in on my twitter feed, I also follow the Parkland student leaders They tweeted about writing their own speeches Robert Kraft donated the use Patriots Team jet with no strings attached Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
March 25th, 2018 at 4:52:18 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204 |
I did not watch. Were they rallying and making speeches to try to change the violence culture in the schools, or were they just crying to ban guns? The President is a fink. |
March 25th, 2018 at 6:40:35 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12508 | I watched some of the speeches yesterday. I was impressed by their public speaking ability! These kids can't even vote but they can sure read off a speech way better than our current President! Maybe that's why so many brainless idiots think they're "crisis actors." They're in awe of their skills... “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
March 25th, 2018 at 7:17:10 AM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4493 |
Skills?? The speeches remind me of the Miss Universe contestants who's goal in life is to "make the world a better place". Just a bunch of hog wash. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
March 25th, 2018 at 9:19:43 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
I was blown away by all the speakers yesterday. Everybody had compelling stories watching their friends and family killed by guns. The numbers that showed up in Washington simply blew me away. Estimates are 800k. 200k more then the Trump inauguration. Rallys and marches all over the world. The times are a changing. America ok with gay marraige America ok with pot America fed up with gun violence Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
March 25th, 2018 at 9:35:08 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | What if the Parkland kids are the answer to all those thoughts and prayers after every mass shooting? Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |