Les étudiants planifient donc des marches à
Washington D.C. (et autres villes) jusqu’à ce qu’une loi sur le contrôle des
armes à feu soit adoptée. Ce n’est pas une mince tâche, mais ils sont courageux
et déterminés parce que je crois qu’ils sont réellement écoeurés. En effet, comment
vivre avec la crainte perpétuelle de se faire tuer n’importe où et n’importe
quand dans des lieux publics ou par son voisin? c’est insupportable.
Students hold gut-wrenching protest
at White House while Trump golfs
Eric
Boehlert | February 19,
2018
Students nationwide are sending a loud message: They want gun control now.
While
Trump was playing golf for the 93rd time as president on Monday, students from
the Washington, D.C., area were staging a lie-in front of the White House to
demand immediate action on gun control legislation.
And A Child Shall Lead Them
Linda
Sharp
Monday, February 19, 2018
Monday, February 19, 2018
[...] The occurrence
is not the surprise. It's just a sad, tragic, blood soaked lottery that our children
are entered into against their will and nobody wants to win.
It's become our Hunger Games. Or perhaps
SHAMES is a better word.
We have watched in horror as this scenario is
played out again and again. Shock, blood, vigils, funerals. Parents shoved into
the nightmare of child-death from which they will never awaken. Thoughts and
prayers – the impotent, bullshit
extended by politicians who truly could not care less if they tried. And the
admonition from them, their gun fetish constituents, and their NRA cash
overlords, that it is “too soon” to talk about gun regulation.
And so a headline comes, the above takes
place, the headline fades, the media moves on, and we wait to see who wins the
next Powerfall.
Yet this time, something very different is
taking place. Something amazing, heartening, and shameful all at once.
The children who were there are refusing to
let this fade. The survivors, the friends of the dead - the ones who had to
walk through the blood and past their fallen classmates - are saying to the
politicians, to the world, “NO, YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH IT THIS TIME.” And, “It is not TOO SOON, it is TOO LATE!”
Listening to how articulate these students
are, how fed up they are with the fear all students feel these days, and how
angry they are no one in charge gives a damn about protecting them? I am
humbled. I am also filled with shame. Shame because we adults have
systematically, right down the line, failed them over and over and over. [...]
So our children, still in shock, suffering
PTSD, recovering from wounds are now pushing us aside. They now know, beyond
any doubt, that they must be the ones they have been waiting for.
Marches have already been planned. Nationwide
walk outs are being coordinated at schools across the land. And most
impressively, these kids are calling literal BULLSHIT on Trump. Kids are doing what
leaders are afraid to do. They are standing tall, taking to the media, staring
directly into the cameras and saying – without blinking or stuttering:
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES.
Si Donald Trump veut protéger les Américains contre
les terroristes étrangers, il devra déporter ses propres terroristes américains
«pure laine».
Why “they” seem more violent than
“we” are
Between
54 and 63 percent of the mass shootings since 1982 were committed by white men.
A hypothetical outside threat is seen as far more deadly than a very real
internal one. How do we account for these seemingly contradictory impulses? [...]
With regard to safety and security,
demonizing refugees, Muslims, Mexicans and so on does the important work of
seeming to take action while leaving the existing order (and the incredible
profits of gun manufacturers) intact. In a world that can undoubtedly feel like
a scary place, we might want to believe that our biggest threats come from
without. That they might already be walking among us is apparently too much to
swallow.
Saviez-vous que le deuxième amendement avait été
ratifié en 1788 pour préserver l’esclavage?
The Second Amendment was ratified to
preserve slavery
"A
well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State [emphasis mine], the right of the people
to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." (Madison)
Little
did Madison realize that one day in the future weapons-manufacturing corporations,
newly defined as “persons” by a Supreme Court some have called dysfunctional,
would use his slave patrol militia amendment to protect their “right” to
manufacture and sell assault weapons used to murder schoolchildren.
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