There are 7,000 pairs of shoes in front of the Capitol today

[DesertRat]

one for every child killed by guns since Sandy Hook.

Link to tweet

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for visibility...nt

[riversedge]

2. video

BrunoTX #DemForce Retweeted
Matt McDermott
?Verified account @mattmfm
2h2 hours ago

Such a gripping visual: There are 7,000 pairs of shoes lined up outside the Capitol. Each represents a child killed by a gun since Sandy Hook. #NotOneMore

Link to tweet

[DesertRat]

4. Thank you. So incredibly sad.

[tblue37]

3. K&R for visibility. nt

[onethatcares]

5. did our elected reps

enter thru the other side doors? Or are they on vacation again?

[Capperdan]

7. The Dumpster is in California

inspecting border wall mock-ups. It's raining, too, probably won't leave the helicopter.

[lindysalsagal]

6. Disgusting, that most of the people insisting on eliminating legal abortion also support gunz

in the face of all these student's deaths.

They'll never figure out that a real life, who is walking around and talking, is more valuable than their right to play with gunz.

But they think a tiny lump of undiffentiated cells have to be protected at all costs.

[calimary]

15. That's one of my arguments to the so-called "pro-life" crowd.

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You can't be, or say you are, "pro-life" if...

...you care more about your own access to massacre machines than about the lives that those massacre machines snuff out.

...you support unfettered, unregulated, wanton, reckless access to any damn guns you want.

...you deny or doubt that climate change exists, or that it's human-caused.

...you're pro-death penalty.

...you support funding cuts to programs supporting low-income families and needy children.

...you're not that concerned about the plight of our war veterans in need (meh - they volunteered!).

...you're not that concerned about reckless politicians who beat the drum for war (creating MORE veterans in need).

...you don't give a damn about the hurricane victims in Puerto Rico - who just "want everything done for them."

...you want regulations that keep us safe, keep our water clean, our food safe, and our environment protected, done away with.

...you'd rather vote for more prisons than more funding for our public schools.

...you see no reason why we need to safeguard the social safety net (for all those "lazy moochers" dontchaknow).

...you don't give a damn about the Dreamers or those "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" (meh, they should go back where they came from!) .

[BigmanPigman]

19. Well said!!!!!

[DesertRat]

20. Well said!

[LAS14]

8. Thanks for this post! How come I haven't seen this on Google News????? nt

[sheshe2]

9. I am going to cry. nt

[malaise]

10. Stop the guns

[DemocracyMouse]

11. Powerful image.... please, please post other effective protest images people!

Like photos documenting the 2nd Women's March

[moondust]

12. Yeah but how many in other countries?

I'll be they're a lot worse!

Wait, wut? No? Virtually none? Seriously? None? Somebody better tell them they aren't safe without their guns!

[EX500rider]

13. Of course there are other countries where it is worse.

Mexico, Venezuela, Jamaica, Costa Rica and 90 other countries all have a higher homicide rate then the US and since this definition of children includes teen gang members 17 to 19yo isn't really what most people consider "children".

The actual definition of children would be a young human being below the age of puberty.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

[smirkymonkey]

14. Fuck the NRA!

May they all burn in hell, if there is such a place. If not, lets create one for them here.

[marble falls]

16. What a great photo for a billboard campaign accross the US.

[bdamomma]

17. OMG

we need to be in the streets, we are better than this and we are better than this fucking regime we have. Fuck tRump, Repigs and the NRA.

[democrank]

18. Heartbreaking image

[ismnotwasm]

21. K&R

[SergeStorms]

22. A powerful picture.

Of course it won't mean a thing to any Congressional Republicans, but to actual human beings it really hits home. So many children, too many guns, and too many nuts who want to use those guns in the most horrendous fashion.

[MsLeopard]

23. If it was 7,000 rich white men

killed by guns in five years, you wouldn't be able to find a firearm in all of America.