Second-graders are real. They actually exist – so do kindergarteners, fourth-graders, eight-graders, sophomores, seniors, college students
The claimed “Second Amendment rights” DO NOT EXIST. Before any outrage – look up the actual Founders’ words
When murdering innocent children in schools, murdering people praying in churches, becomes “the cost of doing business” what do caring, RATIONAL people say of this “civilization”??? IS this a “civilization”???
“Hannah C. is only 7, but she is tired of cowering in closets in her classroom: “I have to hide in closets. It”s so crowded and scary. I don’t wanna have to do them anymore.” [3/25/18; USA Today; Hayes & Kaplan]
Articles of Confederation, Article VI: “..every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia..shall provide..in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition, and camp equipage.”
“Ivanna P. has slept next to her mom every night in the month since the school shooting claimed the lives of classmates and teachers she saw every day.” [3/19/18; USA Today; Cardona]
Madison’s original Second Amendment draft: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well-armed and well-regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service.”
Demitri H., Parkland senior: “none of us will ever be OK.” [6/3/18; Sun Sentinal; Mayo]
The Senate changed Madison’s word order to what it is now: “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” [WHY the reversal???]
“everywhere I travel, I hear from parents and educators about active shooter drills terrifying students, leaving them unable to concentrate in the classroom and unable to sleep at night.” [
The 1792 Militia Acts: May 3: “An Act to provide for the calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union, and suppress insurrections..” May 8: requiring every free able-bodies white male, 18-45, to be enrolled in the Militia..provide himself with a “good musket” and equipment; Section 3: military organization and rankings; Section 5: state and regimental colors; Section 7: “rules of discipline..to be observed by the Militia..”; Section 9: wounded and disabled taken care of and provided for at public expense. [ men REQUIRED to enroll in militia, care for injured Militia men}
3/26/19 – the Parkland community is worried that more survivors will kill themselves after two Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school students committed suicide.
U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 8: “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions..and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States..” [ “calling forth the Militia in the Service of the USA” }
12/31/19 – “..antidepressant use among child survivors soared more than 21% in the two years after a fatal incident..an indicator of the toll that school shootings have on young survivors.” [Was. Post; Ingraham}
Requirements of the Constitution’s Preamble: “We the People..in order to have a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..promote the general Welfare..” Does a REQUIREMENT to “insure domestic Tranquility..and promote the general Welfare..” allow for individuals to around around shooting innocent people “because they have “Second Amendment rights””??? How can this be in a rational “civilized” nation???
2/18/18: “Leonardo O. just wants the images out of his head..I saw..so many people dead..literally in the hallway. I just want to forget the scenes.” [USA Today; Daprile & Holsman]
Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 12, 1776; Section 13: :That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people..” [ “..composed of the BODY of the PEOPLE..”]
2/25/18 – “They can’t get the vision of the gunman out of their heads..do not want to talk to the therapists..going back to school is out of the question..they watched their friends die next to them.” [Palm Beach Post; Pacenti]
Former Republican U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Burger, on a national broadcast, said the idea of an individual right to bear arms was “a fraud.” He repeated the word ‘FRAUD’ again for emphasis. He also said if he was able to write the Bill of Rights, “there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment.”
3/22/18 – “The threat of mass shootings is the defining fear for the generation that has grown up in the shadow of Columbine..” [USA Today; Page & Icsman]. [ THE “defining fear” of a generation}
English grammar rules: since when does one get the FULL meaning of a sentence [the Second Amendment] by using only HALF. of it???????????
1/5/19 – “Therapy for the therapists. Professionals helping Parkland victims are urged to seek care for themselves, too” [Palm Beach Post; Ramadan] [ So – exactly what would require this; what have they been hearing?]
The 2008 “Heller” ruling: “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment [which after 210 years was a new interp itself] is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose…”
3/31/19 – a national network of mass shooting survivors are driving all over America, meeting with surviving relatives; they are trying to set up groups all over America, so people can be close to future shootings; survivors get crank calls and threats. [“60 Minutes”] Planning for “future shootings”??? Crank calls & death threats – for acts of mercy?
Of historical note: in the “old West,” cowboys were required to check their guns with the town marshal at the city limits. Town residents were tired of drunken cowboys shooting their towns up.
12/23/12 – a teacher who survived the 2005 Red Lake shooting quit her job; 7 years later still in therapy; she’d been 5 weeks in an Arizona therapy program after the shooting. [Grand Forks Herald; Haga]
March 25, 2021, Los Angeles Times article reports the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals z’said restrictions on carrying guns in public except for hunting do not violate the Second Amendment…Judge Jay Bybee, appointed by [Republican] President G.W. Bush, wrote for the [7-4] majority. He said a review of more than 700 years of American and English law showed that government has long had the power to regulate arms in public places. We have never assumed..individuals have..unfettered right to carry weapons in public spaces..” {“NEVER”}
May, 2022 – Uvalde, Texas: multiple reports from first responders indicate the children were so mutilated, DNA identification was required – because of the horrific effects on their little bodies from AR-15 rounds.
America DOES NOT. care about its children. No nation that did would allow the mass shooting of the day – knowing that children – since 1999 – have been traumatized, some so much they committed suicide; would accept COMIC BOOK bogus “solutions” which are non-solutions from “adults”; would put more value in a false belief than the actual well being of its children; would continue to elect politicians more afraid for their jobs then DOING THEIR JOBS; would say “nothing can be done”. in the face of civilized nations doing something; would spit in the face of traumatized teens asking for the gun controls the American public overwhelmingly supports; would continue to be the only “civilized” nation tolerating routine savagery in a country where NO PLACE IS SAFE.
Some of the bogus non-solutions offered as “solutions”: “a good man with a gun”; arming teachers; it is all mental heath; it is violent videos; “personal responsibility’: armed guards [everywhere?]; victimizing law-abiding gun owners means do nothing; active shooter drills; “Second Amendment rights”; “bullet-resistant backpacks”; “hardening schools.” Etc. etc…..
“Hardening schools”???? Since shootings occur EVERYWHERE in America – doesn’t “equal justice” require that EVERYWHERE be “hardened”? Don’t YOU have a Constitutional right to “domestic Tranquility”. everywhere, not just in a “hardened school”? This should mean the government will pay for body armor for ALL citizens – RIGHT???
Parkland senior, survivor, Demitri H.: “None of us will ever be OK.”
With Justice For All 