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There are few things that cause a more visceral and instantaneous reaction to protect than something that threatens our children. There are existential forces at work and you don’t need anyone to explain it to you. Somehow, though, there are some Americans who just don’t get it. They are those who line their pockets and enhance their careers using money from the NRA.
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Have a look at what exquisitely clear, eloquent 17 year old Cameron Kasky has to say about that. You might want to hug your kids while you watch this short video because he’s speaking for them. Go on – link through and then come back.
From “The Onion” – click me
Have a look at what The Onion has to say about this. They post a current picture with this caption after every mass murder and we’ve already had seven intentional school shootings this year – that’s one per week. Kids being shot dead. Perhaps we should change the words of Emma Lazarus’ poem from “yearning to breathe free” to “yearning just to keep breathing at all.”
Thanks and apologies to the author – can’t read your name.
Here’s the cycle —>
Does it look familiar? We kill over 33,000 Americans every year with guns – that’s nearly 4 of us killed every hour – and, no, that’s not about Islamic extremists and no, neither an unconstitutional religious ban nor a stupid wall will protect us from this.
It’s time for you and I to see this for what it is and to do something about it.
From the brilliant mind of friend Dan Wallace:
“A vote for an NRA backed candidate is a vote for dead children.”
That’s the brutal truth.
And there’s something we can do about it.
Link this post on your FaceBook page, your Twitter account and your Instagram page. Send a link to this post to at least 10 people you know to make this go viral. That’s something you can do to protect our kids.
There are children in the schools in your town who don’t want to have to dodge bullets or fear for their lives when they hear the fire alarm and go into the hallway, who don’t want have to hide, terrified in a locked school room, who don’t want their teacher to be ripped apart by AR-15 bullets while saving them and their friends and YOU CAN HELP TO PROTECT THESE CHILDREN.
Say it with me:
“A vote for an NRA backed candidate is a vote for dead children.”
Pass this along to everyone you know. Make it go viral so that the NRA money candidates get fired.
SAVE OUR KIDS!
Here’s a link to this post on YouTube.
Here’s a link to a wonderfully clear statement of the facts.
See this in case you think there’s nothing we can do.
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Ed. note: There is much in America that needs fixing and we’re on a path to continually fail to make things better. It’s my goal to make a difference – perhaps to be a catalyst for things to get better. That’s the reason for these posts. To accomplish the goal requires reaching many thousands of people and a robust dialogue.
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