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Policy

Grieving Students and Parents Face the Desperate NRA and its Lawmaker Lackeys

Ruth McCambridge
February 23, 2018
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“High school student protest march against gun violence and for gun law reform, Minneapolis, Minnesota,” by Fibonacci Blue.

February 21, 2018; New York Times

If there’s one thing that should come out of this past week, it’s that the generation currently in high school is willing and able to exercise their civic muscle with eloquence and focus. But the responses they’re getting may inadvertently answer some of their questions about why adults left them to take their chances in the line of fire created by an out-of-control gun culture.

A group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the site of last week’s shooting,