as we approach the collective celebration of the earth day, the children of the earth are once again stepping up to remind us of our stewardship response-ability for the children of the earth who’ve had enough of their peers being murdered and walked out of 2500 plus schools today to call legislators, march around state capitols, city halls, the national capitol renewing the demand for gun safety…
on this nineteenth anniversary of Columbine, thousands of students are walking out thanks to activist 16 year old, Lane Murdock from Connecticut who started a petition on Change.org that spread like wildfire across the internet… since Columbine, 193 schools have experienced a school shooting, affecting over 187,000 students with The San Diego Union-Tribune calculating that over 11,000 years of life have been cut short due to gun violence in schools since Columbine…
let us join with the children to work on six common sense steps to promote safety and life…
- Ban Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines
- Enable the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Research Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue
- Require Background Checks for All Gun Sales
- Support Local Violence Prevention and Intervention Programs
- Disarm All Domestic Abusers
- Make Extreme Risk Protection Orders Available in Every State
and, let us raise our voices with the youth’s cry…
We Won’t Stop!