Marchers: Our Right To Feel Safe Trumps Your Rights

By Tom Knighton

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” It’s an important statement, especially since giving up liberty has an annoying tendency to make us less safe anyway.

However, Saturday saw hundreds of thousands of kids–the estimates range from 800,000 reported by the oh-so-reliable Brady Campaign to just over 200,000 by CBS news–take to the streets of our nation’s capital to ask for safety by giving up liberty.

It seems that quote isn’t taught much in schools.

It wasn’t just these three—from what I saw and heard at the rally, dying in school was a remarkably ubiquitous fear among young people. I spotted a little girl, perched on her father’s shoulders, waving a sign bearing the text “Am I Next?”

Marissa, a teenage girl from Michigan, told me she felt unsafe in school, and thought more security would help. Teenager after teenager testified that their fears of death were all-consuming, ever-present, and more justified than ever before.

Missing from these conversations was any awareness of a very basic, indisputable fact: Gun violence has declined precipitously over the past 25 years, and most Americans …Read the Rest

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