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| Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP |
Not for a second, while I was in high school in the late '60s, did I fear that my life was in danger from some person walking into my high school with a gun. If I had, I would have been one among many of my friends demanding that our "responsible adults" do something to control guns and stop the madness.
Yesterday, youth from more than 2,500 schools across the U.S. did just that.
With our youth rests the hope that U.S. adults will at last become responsible for gun control sanity.
Here's the story:
Student walkouts sweep the US, Meg Wagner and Brian Ries, CNN, 20 Apr 2018
Today they walked. Here's what they want lawmakers to do next.
Today's National Student Walkout, while drawing momentum from February's mass shooting at South Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, marked the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in which two gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher.
But organizers said the movement doesn't stop today, and they're encouraging young people to push for legislation at the state level if Congress doesn't act.
"The federal government can set standards and practices that apply to all states around gun safety. But states have the option of passing additional measures to protect their own residents from gun violence," the organizers' website says.
Students are calling for several measures, including...
- Banning assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and bump stocks
- Mandating universal background checks
- Placing a minimum age of 21 on all gun purchases
- Implementing waiting periods between a gun purchase and gun transfers
- Allowing families to petition a court to remove guns from individuals at risk of injuring themselves
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| There have been 20 school shootings in 2018 |
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| New York City students hold a "die in" in Washington Square Park. Photo: Kyle O’Leary |
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