We the People--Not the N$R$A

photo collage by Vince Reinhart / flickr

It's been quite as day. High school kids led the way. Those that hid under desks and saw their fellow-students gunned-down--all 17--had to do something. And so something they did. They planned this Rally today and it spread like wild fire. Every State in the Union had a March for Lives Matter. There were 800 marches in this country alone.

They reminded us of what we adults have let slip away. The Declaration of Independence does not begin with the Second Amendment or even the First. It begins: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the  common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States." 

We the People...

Not the N$R$A

We the People...

Not we the Democrats

We the people

Not we the Republicans

We the People

Not we the Lobbyists

We the People...

Not we the President...

We the People

Not we the Congressmen...

We the People

Not we the Senators

We the People.

We the victims

We the bereft parents

We the young people

We the people.

There were 800,000 that filled the streets of Washington. And they filled the streets all over the country. Will the speeches, the dreams, the songs, the camaderie, the marching and the deep love for all the people in American make a difference?

This country does not belong to any special interest group--or should not. It is time...high time...for us to do something about this serious problem that is killing not only our young but citizens of all ages. We the people.

photo by Lorie Shaul / flickr

--Roger Lovette / rogerlovette.blogspot.com