Parkland student: My generation won't stand for this

[struggle4progress]

By Cameron Kasky
Updated 10:36 AM ET, Fri February 16, 2018

(CNN) ... the students at my school felt one shared experience -- our politicians abandoned us by failing to keep guns out of schools.

... my classmates and I are going to hold them to account. This time we are going to pressure them to take action. This time we are going to force them to spend more energy protecting human lives than unborn fetuses ...

... there is no denying that the NRA continues to donate millions of dollars to politicians ... Then those politicians .. rile up their base by making them think that "liberals" are going to take their guns away ...

I'm just a high school student, and I do not pretend to have all of the answers ... I can see that there is desperate need for change -- change that starts by folks showing up to the polls and voting all those individuals who are in the back pockets of gun lobbyists out of office ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/opinions/florida-shooting-no-more-opinion-kasky/index.html

[mcar]

1. These kids could change things for the better!

I stand with them.

[mgardener]

10. These kids

WILL change things and I hope the women of America will stand with them.
Men do not have a need for change, the status quo serves them nicely.
It will be up to the women and children to fix this.

[Cha]

2. I'm so grateful for these students..

the survivors.

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. This is our future - 17, at 18 able to vote...Cameron Kasky's comments

Cameron said, “I don’t want to sound like a victim at all,” he said. “I didn’t get shot, I didn’t see anyone get shot. I am lucky as hell and I am very happy to be breathing right now air that is not coming from a tube. I am goddamn lucky.”

Surely Cameron will not forget.

AND surely we will NOT forget the names of the victims - or Cameron Kasky...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/florida-city-mourning-victims-school-mass-shooting-1.4536437

[bluestarone]

4. as i see it today

the parents of these kids should be DAM PROUD!!!!

[MuseRider]

5. Good!

I am ashamed that so many from my generation perpetuates the problem.

I will stand next to anyone doing this, thank you.

[smirkymonkey]

6. K&R

Brave, smart children. I am glad they are the future.

[LisaM]

7. I'd like to believe this, but....

Hillary was the only candidate who specifically called out the NRA and she struggled to attract millennials.

[TryLogic]

11. I don't think this was the reason. She was too close to the wall street bankers.

[Skittles]

13. or they just fell for the propaganda about Hilary that so many others did

[crazycatlady]

15. These kids are not millennials-- they're Gen Z

[PatrickforO]

16. I'm thinking that

when Bernie lost the primaries, it sort of lost the Dems a lot of millennial votes that time around - because he got them to come out, and they were disgusted, I think, by the rhetoric that flew back and forth from surrogates.

Now, they've seen a year of the most corrupt and despicable jerks that have ever disgraced this nation. Now, they have lost net neutrality. They have seen Trump pull us out of the Paris agreement. They have seen his pathetic appointees to the EPA roll back regulations they support. They will experience the gutting of the work-study budget, and more expensive healthcare.

And these mass shootings.

Like you and I they are fed up. Fucking fed up. Angry as hell. I think they will turn out en masse and vote these despicable snakes out of office. There are lots of young people running for office, too - Dems. And I'm thinking this new generation of candidates will do quite well in November, provided we actually HAVE elections in November.

[Sam McGee]

8. Someone in Florida needs to track these kids . . .

. . . and register everyone of them to vote by 2020.

[Sophiegirl]

12. A lot of them...

...can vote in 2018.

As a senior in HS, I turned 18 in February 1980. And I voted.

So, the ones who are eligible to vote, will. The next generation is becoming more and more energized and I fully, gratefully support them.

[ProudLib72]

14. Agreed!

[SMC22307]

17. 2018 midterms are in 9 months...

no need to wait until 2020.

[Amaryllis]

9. "The only people who dont care are the people making the laws." THese kids are amazing.

There really does seem to be something different this time. Even the kids are saying that. LIke a tipping point.