March For Our Lives Essay

William Zachry

In the past year I have been frustrated feeling as if I didn't have a way to help make a change. It seems like all I can do is sit and watch; I believe this opportunity will help me to change that belief. Many of my neighbors are in law enforcement; all have guns and are well trained with them, I’m comfortable It’s people getting guns that shouldn’t have them that bothers me. Students shouldn’t feel scared or unsafe at school, I know kids who do not feel safe at school. I believe it is important that political leaders hear the voices of my generation. Most of us will be voting by the next presidential election and I am not the only person who wants change. Since 2013 there have been 27 students killed in 142 school shootings, 17 of those being at parkland. I attend school of around 1,200 and I have had the privilege of knowing amazing people in this past year and half. The thought of losing any fellow classmates to gun violence is crazy to me, much less how it affects their families.  I don’t accept that “guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people”. That is NRA propaganda.  It’s hard to wrap my head around why people need guns because currently, they don’t, something needs to happen because if we sit back and do nothing, it is going to happen again ...it is just a matter of time. The momentum that started in Florida must continue. My generation has had enough of the government being bought by the gun lobby. That is why I want to go on this march, so that this will not happen again. No family deserves to lose their child when it could have been prevented. I want to march for all the kids my age who are now dead because of a lack of gun control. I want to march for the friends and families of those kids. I want to march for school shootings to be a thing of the past. And I want to march for my friends and classmates, so that we will never have to face the same horror as the kids of Parkland or Columbine.