Posted November 8, 2018 1:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

We were told they were the future. The Parkland kids were going to change everything. Their status as survivors made them supposedly unquestionable and their passion was going to ignite the world to embrace gun control.

And they lost.

Despite their celebrity status, people like David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez failed to affect any real change on even their home state’s electorate as Andrew Gillum fell in his bid to replace Rick Scott as governor. Moreover, Scott is moving to the U.S. Senate over Democrat Bill Nelson.

But the kids vow to continue fighting.

In the months since a mass shooting devastated Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida, the teenaged survivors who emerged from the massacre as empowered advocates for gun reform have been heralded as savvy, precocious and wise beyond their years.

So it came as no surprise when, faced with crucial losses in Florida’s senate and gubernatorial races on Election Night, those same young people were able to evaluate defeat with a kind of sage grace.

“A group of kids on a living room floor organized the largest protest in American history… a 63 day bus tour… over 200 chapters… registered hundreds of thousands of people… …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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