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I know I don’t have that large of a platform on here, but please spread if you can.
My friends and I are starting the twitter hashtag #studentsforregulation starting friday. What it will be is basically if you’re a student in the united states, post a video of you talking about your fears and views on the lack of gun control. We’re posting them all friday so there can be a huge wave of scared voices yelling for change. We’re gonna make them hear us.
Just a short, personal video of your fears, views, and concerns under the hashtag #studentsforregulation on friday. We can have a voice if we’re all shouting. No more selling our lives for votes. It ends with us
Tag: gun violence
Logging in to facebook today has been a lesson in finding out which members of your friends and family care more about imagined threats to their personal liberties, than the actual threat of gunmen walking into schools and murdering children.
And before any of y’all attempt to start shit, I’m not in the fucking mood to spoon feed you common sense and decency today, so don’t.
I grew up in a country with gun control. It was a measure put into place a year after a man armed with two pistols and two revolvers walked in to a village primary school much like my own, and murdered 15 children all under the age of ten at point blank range before eventually turning the gun on himself. It was a national tragedy, the likes of which has not been repeated since 1996 in UK because we had immediate and effective gun control. So yes, it works.
You can argue with me all you fucking like about how “criminals will always get their hands on weapons” but here’s the thing I can also tell you from experience, cause yea, I also grew up in an area rife with crime and murder too (Glasgow, the only city to be voted both the friendliest and the murder capitol of Europe, within the same year. Brilliant.) most criminals? Dinnae think about walking into schools and shooting up bairns. They want weapons to use against other criminals and occasionally the law enforcement. And we might still have a lot of problems involving knife crime, but it’s a lot harder to stab 20 people in under 5 minutes than it is so just walk into a room full of unarmed innocents and open fire.
So your argument that there’s no point to trying to limit access to weaponry, doesnae actually mean heehaw. It’s just your way of saying you dinnae give a shit about other people and the death of 17 children is an acceptable outcome for your sense of personal liberty.
If you truly are a responsible gun owner, as so many people claim in their defense of owning one, then you must also acknowledge that there is a much deeper problem in America at the moment that so many people who are not, are able to get their hands on them.
Just because you’re not actively part of the problem, isn’t enough. Not anymore. It never was.
Remember Dunblane.
We can’t allow children to grow up thinking gun violence and school shootings are just a part of life.
The Doctor Is Out 