Too Much to Say About Guns

I'm glad to see the Parkland, Florida, students having an effect on the intractable gun debate in this country.

Their success exists in a context where other recent youth-led movements (that [coincidentally] were led by people of color) have been forgotten. And in the midst of absurd calls to arm teachers, when we already know that too many school staff and in-school police treat black students like criminals. Which will go even better if the staff have guns, right? Imagine what that looks like in a stand-your-ground state.

Meanwhile, cartoonist Matt Bors at thenib.com takes on another aspect of the recent shooting:


Remember Tamir Rice? He was 12, with a toy gun, in an open-carry state.

Check out this thread by Bree Newsome (the woman who took down the stars-and-bars from the South Carolina state house flag pole) on the historical roots of all this.