Color of Law
To All the Young Folks Fighting the Gun Lobby: Follow the Money
Executive Editor
The massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, may well become the catalyst that will undermine the power of the gun lobby in America. There is every indication that this mass shooting, which left seventeen people dead, is different from others before it, including the seventeen other school shootings that preceded it this year. Students have become political, and are organizing through their anger, grief, and trauma.
Any movement to transform America’s gun politics requires neutralizing the National Rifle Association and its power over the Republican Party. It means attacking a corrupt system…
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