Listen to the groundswell of student rage around the nation as they call for gun control and call out those politicians in the pocket of the NRA. After all, it is they whose contemporaries were killed in Florida. It is they who could be next.
Not since 1999, after Columbine, when I helped chaperone a Colorado group of students on a gun control lobbying trip to Washington, have I heard such eloquent cries:
“This should be the last!”
“Stop lying to us, politicians!”
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Our 1999 group did not sway Washington, but it did help close the gun show loophole in Colorado. Today, with their passionate pleas going viral on social media, our teenagers could make the difference even in D.C. They have already announced a March for Our Lives to take place on March 24 in Washington and others cities throughout the nation.
Go, students! First, march. Then, even if you can’t yet vote, convince your parents to throw the NRA politicians out.
ٴdzٳپ, Denver
The writer is a former first lady of Colorado.
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