#NeverAgain
Why we need the March For Our Lives movement
Houston, we have a problem. And it’s a serious one: guns in America.
In the first three months of the year, America saw 57 mass shootings; that’s more than one shooting every two days. Ones such as the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting prompted outrage across the country, and many gathered to protest the lack of gun control. The March for our Lives is a prominent example with over 800,000 people attending the one that occured in Washington, D.C.
Yet, the government has failed to implement the necessary changes to keep its citizens safe. I mean, really? Arming teachers and making students at MSD use clear backpacks? I don’t think so. They’re just a path to disaster and a privacy invasion. And if you think about it, in an age where police will shoot first and ask never, is it really safe for teachers, especially ones of minority backgrounds, to be holding a gun? It’s not.
I’m a high schooler, and when I see news about school shootings, I think to myself. What if it was me? What if it was my sister? What if it was my friends? How can I be sure that we will all be safe when we go to school every day?
I’m disgusted by the lack of governmental action taken on gun control. There is no reason for people to own guns. If no one had guns, then there would be no problem in the first place. The answer to gun violence is not to pull out a bigger one, but to take away the other person’s.
We need to think logically and put the rights of the people above the rights of guns. And only then, we will be able to move towards a safer future.
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