BEYONCÉ DEMANDS AN END TO GUN VIOLENCE (VIDEO)

BEYONCÉ DEMANDS AN END TO GUN VIOLENCE:

AFTER PARKLAND, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

HUMAN LIFE MATTERS MORE THAN MONEY FROM NRA LOBBYISTS.


Sources: FuseTV, Youtube

JUSTIN BLACKMAN, 16 - SOLO GUN CONTROL WALK OUT AT HIS N.C. SCHOOL

JUSTIN BLACKMAN, 16 - SOLO GUN CONTROL WALK OUT AT HIS N.C. SCHOOL:

JUSTIN, 16 OF WILSON NORTH CAROLINA, WAS THE ONLY STUDENT AT HIS SCHOOL TO WALK OUT MARCH 14th.

JUSTIN BLACKMAN, 16 HAS A VOICE & HE USED IT VIA CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR NATIONWIDE GUN CONTROL.

SOMETIMES REAL LEADERS MUST BE WILLING TO STAND ALONE.

KUDOS TO JUSTIN FOR BEING COURAGEOUS & FOR CARING ABOUT HUMAN LIFE.

PRAY FOR JUSTIN’S PROTECTION BECAUSE THE NRA IS ANGRY.


Sources: Yahoo News, CNN, Youtube


****** This teen was the only student in his school to participate in the national walkout


On Wednesday, students nationwide left class to honor the 17 teenagers who died in the Parkland shooting, and to protest lax gun control laws in the United States.

But on #NationalWalkoutDay, 16-year-old Justin Blackman realized that he was the only student at Wilson Preparatory Academy in Wilson, North Carolina to participate in the protest.

"It's National Walkout Day, I'm the only one from my school out here," he said in a video he tweeted. “I’m just going to be chilling here for the next 15 minutes.”

According to CNN, about 700 students attend Wilson Preparatory Academy. Blackman was the only student to leave class. He spent 17 minutes outside, one for every person who died at Stoneman Douglas High School last month, and then walked back to his Spanish class.

The school declined to comment on the issue, but told CNN Blackman is an "independent thinker."

He didn't think that anyone would care. “There’s going to be like six people watching this hopefully," he said in the video.

Instead, Blackman received an outpouring of support from people around the country.

Lindsay Knauf, who's from Newtown, Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook school shooting occurred in 2012, thanked Blackman for standing up.

"Seeing the action that is finally taking place means the world to all of us here," she tweeted at him.

Filmmaker and A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay retweeted Blackman's video with a Martin Luther King Jr. quote: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Alexis Tracton, a freshman at Stoneman Douglas, thanked Blackman. "I'm inspired by you for being a leader," she tweeted at him, "Every little thing makes a difference."

Since it was posted, Blackman's video was viewed more than 2.6 million times at the time of writing, and has received more than 11,000 comments.

Blackman isn't the only student to walk out alone at school; second grader Leonardo Aguilar joined the high schoolers in San Jose because he was reportedly the only one to leave his classroom.

And school officials in Sayreville, New Jersey threatened Rosa Rodriguez with suspension for leaving class, but she did it anyway.

This may be the start of Blackman's career in leadership. The high schooler runs a YouTube channel for gaming, but he's thinking about starting one dedicated to politics.

"I'm young and I HAVE A VOICE!!!!" he tweeted.

GUN CONTROL NATIONAL WALK-OUT - MARCH 14, 2018, 10:00am (GEN Y)

GUN CONTROL NATIONAL WALK-OUT - MARCH 14, 2018 - 10:00am:

GENERATION Y vs THE NRA - CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR FEDERAL & NATIONWIDE GUN CONTROL LAWS.

I AM SO PROUD OF OUR BRAVE YOUNG PEOPLE FOR PUTTING PRESSURE ON CONGRESS TO TAKE ACTION.

WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT?

SAVING HUMAN LIVES OR CAMPAIGN MONEY FROM NRA LOBBYISTS??


Sources: ABC News, LA Times, Yahoo News, Youtube


***** Everything to know about the National School Walkout on March 14


Students, teachers, parents and administrators across the country are invited to take part in a National School Walkout in a call on Congress to pass tighter gun control laws.

The ENOUGH National School Walkout on March 14 is exactly one month after the mass shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

The event will be at 10 a.m. across every time zone and last 17 minutes -- one minute for each of the victims gunned down in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The walkout is organized by young people working with Women’s March Youth Empower.

Women’s March Youth Coordinator Tabitha St. Bernard Jacobs, one of the few adults helping with the youth-led movement, told ABC News that while the walkout was sparked by the Florida school shooting, the event is about calling out gun violence.

St. Bernard Jacobs said it is a way to shed light on the type of gun violence that exists not just in schools, but everyday gun violence, like shootings that impact minority communities or devastate cities like Chicago, Illinois.

Students across the country have said they will join, as well as groups from schools as far as Ireland, Switzerland and Israel.

How participants spend the 17 minutes of the walkout is up to them. Some people are doing a lie-in, while others are holding rallies, St. Bernard Jacobs said.

This isn't a protest against schools, but a way to encourage school administrators to help students "amplify their voices," she said.

She went on to add, "Some schools are looking to this as an opportunity to really educate their young people about what it means in this moment to be engaged."

Mixed emotions Stoneman Douglas Students return to class: 'School shouldn’t be a war zone'.

The March 14 event is one of many student walkouts erupting throughout the U.S. as a new generation of youth advocates lead a fierce push for gun reform. While many school districts are supportive of the protests, some schools have reportedly threatened to punish students participating in walkouts.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said schools can punish students for missing class for walkouts, but the punishment should only be because students are missing school -- it cannot be a harsher punishment because the students participated in a protest.

Dozens of colleges and universities have said they won't penalize applicants who are peaceful student protesters. Brown University, for example, posted on Twitter, "Applicants to Brown: Expect a socially conscious, intellectually independent campus where freedom of expression is fundamentally important. You can be assured that peaceful, responsible protests against gun violence will not negatively impact decisions on admission to Brown."

"That's very encouraging," St. Bernard Jacobs said of the schools supporting students' decisions to protest gun violence. "This is a moment for youth to find their voice."

JIMMY KIMMEL vs TRUMP - “YOU’VE LITERALLY DONE NOTHING” (GUN CONTROL)

JIMMY KIMMEL vs TRUMP - “YOU’VE LITERALLY DONE NOTHING” (GUN CONTROL):

KIMMEL SAID, “TELL YOUR ALLEGED CHRISTIAN BUDDIES IN CONGRESS TO DO SOMETHING”.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE KIMMEL’S BOLDNESS & HIS SINCERE PASSION.

TRUMP USED TO DISPLAY SAME BOLDNESS UNTIL HE WENT TO THE SWAMP.

DEAR GOD PLEASE HELP THOSE HURTING FAMILIES IN PARKLAND, FLORIDA.

DEAR GOD PLEASE EXPOSE THE TRUTH ABOUT WHO INFLUENCED OR PAID NICKOLAS CRUZ, 19.


Sources: NBC, CNN, WASHINGTON POST, YouTube


****** Jimmy Kimmel to Trump after school shooting: 'You've literally done nothing


An emotional Jimmy Kimmel opened his show Thursday night by speaking to both his audience and President Trump following Wednesday's school shooting that took place in Florida.

"As I'm sure you know and feel, this is another very sad day in America," Kimmel said on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" "At least 17 lives have been lost. More than a dozen people are hospitalized, and our President, as he should, weighed in on the tragic events this morning from the White House."

The host then showed clips of Trump's speech from the White House on Thursday morning in which the president said, "No parent should ever have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them goodbye in the morning."

"Agreed," the host responded. "Here's what you do to fix that. Tell your buddies in Congress -- tell Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio, all the family men who care so much about their communities -- that what we need are laws. Real laws that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids."

Authorities say that Nikolas Cruz, 19, gunned down students and staff with a rifle on Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people. It is at least the eighth shooting at a U.S. school this year.

Kimmel, who was visibly shaken, continued by speaking directly to Trump.

"Tell these Congressmen and lobbyists, who infest that swamp you said you were going to drain, force these allegedly Christian men and women who stuff their pockets with money from the NRA year after year after year to do something," he said. "Now. Not later. Now."

The host told Trump not to let anyone say that "it's too soon to be talking about it."
"Children are being murdered. Do something," Kimmel said with his voice breaking. "We still haven't even talked about it. You still haven't done anything about this. Nothing. You've literally done nothing."

Kimmel kept addressing Trump by adding that politicians and the president like to say that mass shootings are a mental health issue.

He then said that one of the first acts of Trump's presidency was to roll back a regulation designed to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill.

"Your party voted to repeal the mandates on coverage for mental health," Kimmel said. "So I agree, this is a mental illness issue because if you don't think we need to do something about it, you are obviously mentally ill."
Kimmel finished his monologue by saying that viewers could write or call their representatives to demand gun control. And if they don't listen, he said, people can vote those representatives out.

"Whatever you do, do something because I, for one, am very, very, very, very tired of this," he said before showing clips of politicians and the president saying it's too early to talk about gun control.

"Yeah, no it isn't," Kimmel said.