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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere are 7,000 pairs of shoes in front of the Capitol today
one for every child killed by guns since Sandy Hook.
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Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)riversedge
(70,047 posts)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
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DesertRat
(27,995 posts)tblue37
(65,215 posts)onethatcares
(16,161 posts)enter thru the other side doors? Or are they on vacation again?
Capperdan
(492 posts)inspecting border wall mock-ups. It's raining, too, probably won't leave the helicopter.
lindysalsagal
(20,570 posts)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
(81,085 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 14, 2018, 04:13 PM - Edit history (1)
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
(51,564 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)LAS14
(13,769 posts)sheshe2
(83,637 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Like photos documenting the 2nd Women's March
moondust
(19,956 posts)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
(10,798 posts)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
(63,221 posts)May they all burn in hell, if there is such a place. If not, lets create one for them here.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)bdamomma
(63,791 posts)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
(11,084 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,956 posts)SergeStorms
(19,148 posts)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
(1,265 posts)killed by guns in five years, you wouldn't be able to find a firearm in all of America.