This dunce, Madeleine Marr, is a writer for Princeton?

“Hands up, don’t shoot” appropriated?

On March 23, marchers around the country and the globe gathered for the “March for Our Lives” to protest for gun control in light of the shocking number of recent school shootings.

Shocking number?

Via The Intercept-

“The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education.”

They found that schools are actually increasingly free of mass shootings, which they define as a shooting in which four or more individuals are killed by firearms. “There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” Fox said in a statement about the research, noting that there were four times as many children shot and killed in schools in the early 1990s as today.

More children are killed every year drowning in pools or in bicycle accidents than in school shootings, Fox added. Over the past 25 years, around 10 students per year were killed in gunfire at school. To put that into perspective, in the fall of 2017, around 56 million students attended public and private public elementary and secondary schools.

I attended the march in Los Angeles, walking with an energized crowd in the area surrounding City Hall. I have marched in other events before, but this was the first time when young people made up (in my estimate) almost 50 percent of the crowd. The protestors I saw seemed to be generally middle school-aged, but I also watched young children and toddlers carrying signs they had made begging politicians to implement gun control.

Toddlers made signs? Impressive. And the toddlers knew enough to ask politicians to implement gun control, all by themselves? I believe you.

One notable sign I saw, carried by a boy who seemed to be in fifth grade, said “When I said I’d rather die than go to math class, I didn’t mean it literally.” The humor of the sign and the age of the boy carrying it made the overall message, a statement about the boy’s fear of death at school, even more heartbreaking.

56 million students attend school every day. What are the odds you will be killed by a gun while in school? Is this fear irrational?

One slogan I saw frequently on posters, and heard chanted as I moved through the crowd, was “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” This slogan originated after the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson,

Michael Brown was not murdered.

Mo., after some accounts contended that Brown had his hands in the air when he was shot by a Ferguson police officer.

Those accounts were wrong.

While the evidence presented during the trial did not conclusively prove that Brown had his hands in this position,

Evidence at the trial proved he did not have his hands up when shot.

the slogan has persisted as a rallying call for Black Lives Matter and related activist movements.

And stupidly so.

So, why were the protesters in Los Angeles, who were predominantly white students and parents, using this slogan?

Because they are stupid?

Especially when the concepts implicit in this slogan, of police brutality and antipathy for young black lives, are not a pressing concern for the people I saw co-opting this cry?

Uh oh. The dumb white girl is going to chastise her fellow dumb comrades and wake the. Woke them? Awaken?

Black protesters in Los Angeles and on social media participated in the March for Our Lives, but some brought signs expressing frustration with this blind spot demonstrated by their fellow marchers. Signs like “So I’ll see you at the next BLM protest?” and “Where was everyone when Eric Garner was shot?”

Eric Garner wasn’t shot. Eric Garner was put in a head lock, and the walking heart attack finally had one. But let’s not stop Marr with facts while she’s on a roll.

called out what they saw as a white-centered focus on issues of gun violence to the fore of our national consciousness. March for Our Lives and the surrounding activist work has elevated the debate on gun control. The movement has gained more ground in 2018, which can’t be ignored. However, it is imperative to turn a critical eye on the movements one supports in order to improve them — in that vein, we should point out where the current gun control movement has left black perspectives behind.

This makes absolutely no sense. There’s a black perspective on gun control that is unique to the gun control movement? What would that be? And would the solutions to this “crisis” be race specific? What would those be?

You can have a gun but it will be illegal to point one at a black person.

According to Everytown Research, “gun violence disproportionately impacts black children and teens, who are 4 times more likely than white children and teens to be killed with guns.” Furthermore, “black children are 14 times more likely than white children and teens to die by gun homicide.”

And?

Why would white people calling for gun control be “dissin'” the black folk? Is it they are getting in the way of some funding?

The increasing fear of non-POC (people of color) parents and students about gun violence in schools exists for many young men of color in many other spaces, including (in light of Stephon Clark’s murder) their own backyards. However, this history and what it suggests about the nature of the victims of gun control have been largely ignored in the 2018 mainstream gun control debate.

Huh? If a disease afflicts more black people than white, blacks would be upset if whites marched to help stamp it out?

Eradicating the disease helps everyone, irrespective of who it inflicts more or how people get it. This is beyond idiotic, and all it does it show that people are getting off on their victimization, and encroaching on it pisses them off.

The voices of people who face gun violence more often, including from those whose purpose is supposedly to protect, have been ignored or villainized despite their importance in contributing to this debate.

Villainized? How so?

As gun violence continues to terrorize the American public with increasing frequency,

Gun violence is down in the United States.

Via Wapo–  the current rate of firearm violence is still far lower than in 1993, when the rate was 6.21 such deaths per 100,000 people, compared with 3.4 in 2016.

the movement to pressure politicians to legislate guns in a sensible manner is also going to matter more for the future and safety of the country. However, that debate will not be effective if it does not include and feature the voices of everyone who is affected by gun violence — that group must include diversity of race, as well as class, gender, sexuality, and political orientation. Only then will the activist work gain the political leverage that it needs to succeed.

The danger here is that if the anti-gun groups keep stepping on each other’s toes they might start shooting one another.