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turbinetree

(24,745 posts)
Mon May 21, 2018, 11:58 PM May 2018

National Die-In Day: US high schoolers to protest inaction on gun control

Source: The Guardian

American high school students are organizing a National Die-In Day on 12 June to protest continued government inaction on gun control laws. The action will take place on the second anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, and will include a die-in at noon in front of the Capitol in Washington DC and another in Orlando. The teenage organizers are hoping to spark additional die-in protests at state capitols and town halls across the country – “anywhere with lethal legislative inaction”, as one tweet put it.

The founder of the die-in day, Amanda Fugleberg, is an 18-year-old high school senior from Orlando who previously organized a walkout to protest gun violence at her high school in March. Fugleberg said the die-in in Washington would last 12 minutes.

That is about one second for each of what she says have been approximately 700 mass shootings in the US, defined by the not-for-profit Gun Violence Archive as incidents resulting in at least four wounded, since the Pulse attack.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/21/us-gun-control-protest-high-school-die-in-day



Wonder what the NRATV will say about this...................I know they will have some lackey come out and say..................this Bullshit, since young adults cannot have the "ability to cope with it...................Fuck the NRA

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National Die-In Day: US high schoolers to protest inaction on gun control (Original Post) turbinetree May 2018 OP
I have more hope now that this issue will not BigmanPigman May 2018 #1
A national movement that we've been unable to master bucolic_frolic May 2018 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,648 posts)
1. I have more hope now that this issue will not
Tue May 22, 2018, 01:36 AM
May 2018

"die" and it will be kept alive due to these young Americans. RESIST!

bucolic_frolic

(43,440 posts)
2. A national movement that we've been unable to master
Tue May 22, 2018, 06:55 AM
May 2018

USA youth movement understands ... they get it.

You couldn't get their parents and grandparents to do anything unless you stole their TV, pickup, shotgun, and refrigerator!

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