Thanks, it fit so well with the predictions you and others have made about young people and youth in general. It really lightened my day! Love this site and all that everyone here contributes!
I am so so heartbroken about children killing children. These schoolshootings (19 already this year!!!!!) are one of the hardest things to stomach about this country. I want to cry and scream but I have to hide my tears from my children because I can't bear to tell them this violent truth... Children's hearts corrupted by this hatred and violence in the ether, children dying at the hands of other children, all this trauma and pain for the affected families and a government that's in the pockets of the NRA.
I feel very overwhelmed and sad right now. What can we do to stop this madness, it's unbearable??? Tell me guys???
Edit: A little step: here is a link to an non-profit that was born out of the terrible Sandy Hook tragedy, they are doing amazing community work to stop gun violence. I'll be getting more involved with this group...
https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/
and this group looks amazing, too:
Tee,
I'm heartbroken as well - so very many of us are. I can vouch for Moms demand action. They have local chapters that specialize in changing laws at the local level and want to see that trickle up. Don't forget to contact your representatives in Congress directly by phone. If they respond to anything from their constituents, this is the action that prompts the most response from them.
Most of all, spread some love today, and every day.
Tragedies like the one that just occurred in Parkland break my heart. These types of things hit too close to home for some of us. I found my voice in the middle of tragedy. I also found that many felt as I did, but there are few who were willing to put themselves on the line to speak up, and to try to do something. Only one or two percent of the victims or survivors actually became an activist.
I took my young son with me when I went to testify in Washington, as I wanted to teach him that we have what it takes to effect change, even if it is a small change.
Times are changing. Just on Friday my now adult son and I were having a conversation about how the students of Parkland were speaking to the media in ways we haven't heard before. They weren't just talking about what they experienced and who they lost. They are being advocates. They know that congress has done nothing. They are calling out politicians who take funding from the NRA. This gave both my son and I hope about the future.
By Saturday there were widespread protests, led in part by the students. By Saturday afternoon the leaders of The Women's March added their voices and have called for a national school walk out on March 14, at 10 am for 17 minutes. The call for this walkout spread on social media, and gained enough traction that it was being reported on by news agencies like the AP. I don't know if it will make a huge difference in what this congress does about gun control, but these are future voters. They are becoming involved in greater numbers than we've ever seen. They see the corporate machine at work in our politics and believe that individuals matter more than entities, and they see who in government is perpetuating this.They are so composed and well informed in such short time after a life altering event. They are spot on. Most won't be voting this November, but for those in high school now, nearly 3/4 of them will be eligible to vote in the next presidential election.
They are the future, and they give me hope.
Such a waste of precious life - the latest of the maddest country in the civilized world who worship guns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who are the invisible puppets who pull these strings like a punch and judy show - then the 'we pray for you'.................WHAT...........................WAKE UP..........utterly heartbreaking to see innocents killed for what..................going to school.
Children in the Middle east and Africa wasting away from malnutrition, not enough medical supplies, being kidnapped into the world of the sickest depraved people trade in Myanmar Africa, all war zones......children are disappearing all over the world.
How do people of good will combat this? If all the schools of the Gun Lobby nutjob's kids were wiped out - would that convince anyone of the 'Grown Ups' something was a bit askew.
Every week gun accidents wipe out children in suburban homes in USA............are their any lights on in the heads of Government and people supposedly in charge.
Hope to see and hear of all states organizing regular marches till the whole of USA is on the move to Sanity and the biggest bonfires of all guns in history replace the heartbreaking forest fires that mysteriously seem to be coming out of nowhere.
Such a sickness of 'civilized' society is just mind numbing....................Thank goodness the students are mobilizing and demanding change.
Enough is Enough.......am cheering you on...........................Life is Precious..................Must be respected.
Some Amendment from some ancient document..........does anyone realize this is 2018 and time to get with it........time has really moved on from when it was the wild west - and how many went to hell or heaven in the Civil War.
My heart goes out to all the bereaved families yet again............may healing peace eventually come to you.
I feel you! But there is something in the air, I feel we are reaching a breaking point. I think there will be more upheaval, depression, trauma and more gun deaths, but there is only so much a heart can handle! We are searching, fighting for the American soul here!
I listened to these kids pleads and look at their faces, this determination and low tolerance for bullshit!!! I feel so much incorruptible power and anger behind them and I am confident that they will channel this to change the world for the better. They will hold the older generations accountable and they will not forget. They are made of a different fabric than most Americans with their narrow mindedness, bigotry, illiteracy, ignorance and love for violence. The days of reckoning are only beginning. This is a new America emerging, an America that can truly be great not because of its world hegemony, that will be gone soon enough. No, it will be great because we finally will look at, listen to and love each other in all our glory and ugliness.
I feel a momentum of these young people emerging and I'll do anything in my power to help protect them, support them and usher a better vision for the future.
The prophecies as told from the 6 nations of the Americas from Lee Brown in 1986, is incredibly potent and relevant in these times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3mzk__aa-o&t=888s
Thank you, waterislife, for this link. It's a treasure!