Recently, I got to speak to a reporter for my local newspaper which is called The Fayetteville Observer. I spoke about the Association of Students for Social Justice club being at the rally that we were holding at the College Lakes Recreation Center.
They asked me about my personal opinion on the gun control issue and this is what I said:
"I want there to be some type of control - not a ban, because that's not the whole point of the issue...It's just, we want to control what type of guns people are allowed to have. Because nobody should be able to have a semiautomatic and be able to make - use a bump stock to make it a fully-automatic weapon. Especially if they're not in the military."
"If they don't have the training for it, they shouldn't own that type of gun."
I also noted that schools need trained law enforcement officers on campus to provide security. I know that there are schools that already have officers but not every police officer handles a school shooting the way that they're supposed to. I cited the shooting at a high school in Maryland that happened last Tuesday as an example.
Because of what I have said about the issue, I have been called a socialist and un-American for my way of thinking.
Regardless, I am slowly getting more and more involved with this movement.
I have been asked by a guy named Tim Dunn to lead the March For Our Lives rally that will be held in Downtown Fayetteville at Festival Park.
I hope to be able to inform others what the true intentions of this movement is about and why I am getting so involved. I should probably start writing on my speech now since I am going to be speaking the most at the rally it seems.
Like my Creative Writing professor said, "You're going to be famous!"
http://www.fayobserver.com/news/20180322/march-for-our-lives-gun-control-protest-to-happen-in-fayetteville
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