Almost a month has gone by since February 14, 2018 and what many people remember about that day is what they did with their significant others or lack of for valentines day, so quickly have they forgotten the words Stoneman Douglas High School and what that day will forever mean to the students there.  Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more were wounded by one person in one of the world deadliest school massacres yet.  While many find themselves pushing these horrible thoughts and events out of our mind the younger generation is tired of this routine and are demanding to be heard, even if it means their education.  

      A recent editorial written on February 26, 2018 by The Huffington post titled My Kid Doesn't Need Permission To Walk Out talks about the repercussions that the younger generation is potentially facing if they follow their fellow historians paths and join the walk out that are scheduled throughout American high schools to tell the government that they want stricter gun laws and less mass school shootings. I believe that this article is written not towards the younger generation but the older generation that feel that the younger kids are just acting out in acts of rebellion.  I feel that what this blog editorial is trying to come across is completely correct in the mission that what they youth is trying to do isn't to stand as a "symbolic gesture of youthfulness" but as a way to tell Iowa government that they must drastically change their gun laws and recent pro-gun bills that have been passed.  The article states that recently the "Iowa's Republican-controlled legislature passed one of the state's most extreme pro-gun bills last year, barring law enforcement from notifying firearms sellers if any gun owner's permit has been suspended or revoked."  What this means is that if your gun license is suspended or revoked a police officer is NOT allowed to tell people who sell guns.  This means that even if it is illegal for you to buy a gun you can still buy one, this is absolutely absurd.  This is what is wrong with the country and partially why there are so many shootings, because it is beyond easy to get a gun.  This is why the younger generation is doing a walk out, because they are "somewhere between rage and grief, and the kids and their schoolmates are simply fed up."  

    While the younger generation is fed up with the lack of gun control, the "oblivious blind eye" towards the N.P.R, the older generation is fed up with the children.  As of now a school district in Texas announced, "that any student participating in such protests against gun violence would be suspended for three days."  A Nevada school district "threatened to keep kids from participating in school-sponsored events, including benching school athletes."  What this is telling the younger generation is that their needs, their wants are not only ignored but wrong.  How can the government expect for any change to happen when they are allowing other people from the government, people from the state tell them to be quiet and to give up their beliefs and wants or else suffer the consequence.  While I agree with this article that kids don't need permission to walk out, I feel that the older generation that also agrees with this should stand up and speak up and defend the younger generation and what they are trying to accomplish.  I feel that this article should call out the older generation that they need to stand up and speak for the younger generation, that they should help us fight this cause with the younger generation.  We can only grow and become "greatness" when you united.

  I encourage everyone to read this article and become the voice of the nation that says we won't be silenced anymore, that something needs to be done, and we need to listen to the new voice of America.  To read the article click the following link: My Kid Doesn't Need Permission To Walk Out