Enough Already

From our current affairs editor Lemuel Stuart III:

A National School Walkout is planned for March 14, 2018, the one month anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.  The organizers are asking school students around the country  to stand up, push in their chairs, and walk out of school for 17 minutes in honor of the seventeen lives lost on February 14th.
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Of course, many right wing and 2A nut jobs are shrieking about second amendment rights because this time around they're feeling a lot more heat since the high schoolers from Florida have led the charge to protect other schools from future massacres.

"Never Again" and "Enough" are their rallying cries. 

The students are determined to shed light on the blood money many politicians accept from the NRA (which many now view as a terrorist organization).  #NRABoycott is even trending on Twitter.

The NRA has, for sure, had some very strange if not fiendish practices since their inception.  For example, in the late-1800s and into early 1900s, the NRA included a "patriot bone pile" on the grounds of their national headquarters.  The gruesome site included bones of individuals killed as a result of gun violence.

In the mid-1900s, the NRA introduced many toys for children to entice them to become gun lovers and gun owners.

Pictured below left:  The NRA's Heavy Machine Gun, one in their series of "NRA Killing Machines for Kids."​

Pictured below right:  The NRA's AR-15 "Marauder," a gun they promoted for loaners and anti-social children.

Pictured below left and right:  The NRA's "Teacher's First Tammy-Gun" school set.  This toy was marketed for girls, and the doll of the teacher included a "Tammy Gun," the NRA's feminine version of the "Tommy-Gun."
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Through the years, the NRA's justification for 2A protection and gun ownership has become more and more absurd.  At the current CPAC convention, Wayne Lapierre, the head of the NRA, insisted that Jesus wrote the full text of the second amendment. ​

Fortunately, a new brand of common sense is coming from the high school students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School n response to the massacre at their school.  "Enough," they say.  "Never again," they insist.

Perhaps they were inspired by a short poem by Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) entitled "We've had enough -- enough was one" (below on the left).  Dickinson's poem did inspire third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Few get enough -- enough is one" (below on the right). 

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
We’ve had enough – enough was one
Of a killer’s shooting spree
Have not each one of us the right
To life and liberty?

By Emily Dickinson:
 
Few get enough – enough is one
To that ethereal throng
Have not each one of us the right
To stealthily belong?