By Ryan Lillis
Sacramento Mayor Darrell (click here) Steinberg not only supports high school students walking out on Wednesday to protest gun violence. - he plans to join the students.
Steinberg called the planned National School Walkout "a vital part of (students') education." The mayor plans to take part in a protest at Hiram Johnson High School in south Sacramento. City schools Superintendent Jorge Aguilar and school board president Jessie Ryan are expected to be at Hiram Johnson as well.
The mayor said he would "march beside (the students), or maybe even behind them."
"Practicing peaceful political advocacy is an essential part of their education and to miss this opportunity would be nothing but a shame," the mayor said. "I think they have an opportunity to not only make a profound statement, but to activate more people towards a safer community and safer society."...
Children don't have many rights in the USA. They have strong laws to protect them from violence and abuse by others, but, they don't have a real voice. No may like this, but, a long time ago when a former Secretary of State worked after college, she identified the need for children to have rights in the USA. Yes, Hillary Clinton was and has always been a strong advocate for children's rights. Her work from the beginning of her career proves it.
I never thought "Glamour" magazine, which has been around a long time and before the internet, would be reporting activism.
Not very far some the US Capital Dome another pair of Ruby Red Slippers lay on display at the Smithsonian Museum. We want childhood return to children of America.
By Jennifer Lance
In the days following the death of 17 people (click here) at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida last month, intense outcries of protest have materialized across the country as student survivors and their families began calling for the immediate reform of federal gun control legislation and the ultimate end to mass shootings.
And yesterday, in a powerful demonstration, members of the global advocacy group Avaaz helped assemble 7,000 pairs of shoes on the southeast lawn of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.—a commemorative act memorializing those 7,000 students who've lost their lives in U.S. school shootings since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT in 2012. The anti-gun demonstration included shoes donated by protestors, as well as some gifted by the victims' families, and collectively covered more than 10,000 square feet of the Capitol lawn, ABC reports.
According to Avaaz, the installment—which they've titled the "Monument for our Kids"—was meant to serve as a jarring wakeup call for Congress, with the high quantity of shoes intended to invoke the understanding that legislative action is what's necessary to curtail these mass killings. "We are bringing Congress face-to-face with the heartbreak of gun violence," Oscar Soria, a senior campaigner with Avaaz, told ABC News at the demonstration....
Europe needs to rethink it's exportation of guns to the USA. The EU and UK should ban private sale of guns outside their borders. Then when they have measured their economy to make the change, they need to ban all exportation of guns from the European continent, with an exception of any military contracts between allies.
By John Detrixhe
Austria, home of the 55-year-old gun maker Glock, (click here) accounts for many of the handguns brought into the US, at some 1.2 million in 2017. (Austria is also one of the rare European countries in which citizens are permitted to buy firearms for self defense.) Croatia, Italy, and Germany are also among the top five handgun exporters to America. Gun makers like Glock and the Swiss-German firm Sig Sauer have production facilities in the US as well.
Glock’s pistols are used by about 65% of US police departments, but the company also lobbies in favor of the American public’s access to firearms. Glock says it gave more than $100,000 to the National Rifle Association and its programs in 2016. Italy’s gun-making Beretta family is a big contributor to the gun lobby group.
Donald Trump’s election in 2016 appeared to be a major win for the NRA, which spent more than $30 million to boost his candidacy, according to OpenSecrets.org. The president shocked many in Washington when, following last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, he signaled support for reforms like higher age limits for buying assault weapons. However that position that seemed to wither after meeting with the NRA’s top lobbyist....Europe needs to ban any automatic or semi-automatic weapons from USA borders. They are killing the kids.
I know Europe is in horror over this issue. This is going to be painful, but, the Intratec DC-9 semi-automatic pistol carried by Dylan Klebold is manufactured in the USA which is a subsidiary of a Swedish company; "Interdynamic AB." The American people and it's children are looking for control of this issue and our government is not responding because of powerful interests of the NRA and other right wing extremist groups.
The American people and their children are asking all that can make a difference to end this violence within our country to do so.
PLEASE!
