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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEmma Gonzalez To LaPierre: "You have no right call BS when thats all that ever leaves your mouth."
@Emma4Change
Listened to your words @waynelapierrejr, and know that when I wrote #ShameOnYou in my speech, I was talking about you. The Disgust I feel for the lies you're promoting with no consequences? Unsurpassed. You have no right call BS when thats all that ever leaves your mouth.
Link to tweet
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She has a bright future and she's absolutely fearless. Go Emma!
forgotmylogin
(7,533 posts)to recruit her with a generous scholarship.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)That's so special! What an amazing letter.
Wow!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I sent those students a modest postcard of thanks and support today and was in tears writing it...
This is so much more.....
erronis
(15,355 posts)On Wednesday, February 14, 2018, a tragic shooting took place, killing 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. FIDL, a prominent French high school union, wishes to share its thoughts and support to the families and friends of the victims.
Since the tragedy happened, you have, students and high school students, taken to the streets to oppose the ease with which, in the United States, individuals can acquire automatic weapons and spread death
FIDL stands in solidarity with your movement.
Schools should be, for us as for you, a sanctuary, that every young person can safely attend. When we go to school, we expect to receive knowledge, rather than bullets.
It is unfortunately clear that Donald Trump, backed by the NRA, which generously subsidized his populist campaign, is not going to settle the issue of gun control in the United States.
But your movement contributes towards progress, and we are convinced that the mobilization of youth can change societies. The French youth will support the NEVER AGAIN movement, starting with us.
Your movement brings hope and embodies justice. We too believe in the right to go to school without being shot and in the right to live in a world in which human beings do not kill each other. We too believe in the duty to silence the arms lobby which profits from crime, and the duty to build a world where weapons can no longer serve as methods of intimidation.
After many shootings in high schools and universities, it is high time that the indecent sellers of death stop boasting about the Constitution of the United States. The United States Constitution was written to preserve freedom and equality, not to preserve the freedom to kill young or old.
Thanks to you for making more noise than Donald Trump and his NRA friends, who wish the United States remained a country where buying a gun may be easier than a bottle of alcohol or a cigarette pack.
School helps to replace blood and violence with words and creation. Let not blood and violence prevent this mission from being fulfilled.
These few words are barely sufficient but we hope that they will reach you. We want to tell you that we admire you and believe that you have the power to change things.
On March 24th, in France and elsewhere, the youth will watch you with emotion.
In front of every Donald Trump, there are thousands and thousands of Emma Gonzalez, thousands and thousands of young people ready to take their responsibilities seriously, and who will no longer accept the cynicism of irresponsible rulers.
Congratulations on your mobilization. We are proud of you.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Out of the mouths of babes
backtoblue
(11,345 posts)Fearless! I love these kids
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)It is enough for now. But not forever.
Trump. Please go. If you don't, we will force you out of office.
Emma, keep on with your valuable work. We are with you, behind you. We hold your hand and have your back. We are there for you and all of the students who have joined you.
We love you.
callous taoboy
(4,590 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)Malala. Truth to power, indeed.
This young woman is a BOSS.
hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)tremendous
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)I'll donate to your campaign
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)dhill926
(16,364 posts)throw the shit right back at the asshole....he's a fucking coward.
BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)Check it out! Beautiful and strong! #ENOUGH and March For Our Lives. March 14th Nationwide Walkout. March 24th Nationwide rallies.
https://m.facebook.com/marchforourlives/photos/a.1601504179927420.1073741828.1600907069987131/1604875189590319/?type=3&source=48&ref=page_internal&__tn__=EH-R
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10112205
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10112196
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)davekriss
(4,628 posts)malthaussen
(17,217 posts)Wonder where she stands on other issues.
-- Mal