Thereâs a bunch of people in the notes claiming theyâre not attacking the Parkland kids, just criticizing their ideas, or saying that the kids are too privileged to be good spokesmen. Yet theyâre also wildly mis-characterizing the movementâs positions as being about nothing more than âmore copsâ and getting rid of privacy laws (and even the OP is kind of reinforcing these misconceptions). Those suggestions were in a single document written by a separate group of students who didnât organize the March, and many speakers specifically spoke against those suggestions.
This has all been pointed out, repeatedly, so pretending the March For Our Lives is about more cops and nothing else is basically a shitty, intentional distortion by the left to weaken support for the only movement thatâs gained any serious momentum for gun control in years.
And you know, even if some of the people involved in MFOL do support the existence of cops and a military, so do like, the vast majority of Americans. Refusing to support a movement for gun control that also includes fairly mainstream proposals like bans on certain types of guns, waiting periods, CDC research, etc. unless everyone involved also supports anarchism and disarming the military is effectively refusing to support gun control, period. But honestly I donât even think this is really about âpurityâ or whatever, itâs that the left has decided that gun control is liberal nonsense, and theyâre looking for any reason to oppose it.Â
âWeâre an affluent community â thatâs why initially everybody followed this [shooting] so closely,â Kasky, 17, said during the Twitter Q&A. âThere are communities that ⌠have to deal with [gun violence] on a much more regular basis and have to feel a lot less safe than we do.â
People of color are more often affected by gun violence in the United States, yet the media and the American public have paid comparatively little attention to their stories. While the media has elevated the voices of Parkland survivors, activists of color have discussed why shootings in their communities and their own calls to action are largely ignored.
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