"Woman hold her head and cry,'Cause her son had been shot down in the street and died
From a stray bullet." ~Johnny Was- Bob Marley~
That was a powerful and impressive showing by some of our young people on Saturday in D.C. and other cities across the country.
It gives us all hope for our future, and that's a good thing. Is it a movement? No one knows for sure. I know one thing, it all will mean nothing if all of these young people do not register to vote when they become eligible and vote out the NRA slaves as they promised. As is always the case, the folks at the NRA ---and their friends in Washington--- are just sitting back and hoping that the energy will subside, and that with each passing day the outrage will be less than it was the day before.
If nothing happened after a school house full of children was slaughtered, why would things change now? That, I am sure, is the thinking among those calling the shots in the NRA.
This time, though, things might be a little different. This is partly due to the political energy on the left, thanks in part to the trump's presidency.
We will see.
Finally, speaking of guns and gun violence. There has been another state killing of an unarmed black man in America. This time it was in California, where yet another young unarmed black man was shot to death Sadly, it was in the back yard of his grandparent's home. Not only was he shot and killed, but he was shot at over 20 times. To add insult to the ultimate injury, he was handcuffed and cursed at by the police officers who executed him.
We will see what happens with this case, but like the debate on guns that I wrote about above, I suspect that not much will change. Especially given the person who occupies the White House and the person running his justice department.
*Pic from twitter.com
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