Mr. Bosley of Bosley reorganization unit, Baca County, Colorado, feeding a sow

#Bosley #BacaCounty #Colorado #DorotheaLange

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💔We’ve had thousands of people die of gun violence and we’ve basically done nothing at the federal level to substantially address it💔
-- David Hogg

As members of the youth-led gun control movement born out of the country’s deadliest high school mass shooting – the 2018 shooting in which 17 people were killed in #Parkland, Florida – #Hogg and #Bosley represent thousands of young Americans demanding change.
“What’s happened is obviously heartbreaking, but at the same time, extremely frustrating,” 23-year-old Hogg said.
In 2018, Hogg survived the Parkland shooting and went on to co-lead the pro-gun control 🙏🏻March for Our Lives 🙏🏻rally, one of the largest youth-led demonstrations since the Vietnam war.

“We had one person, a couple decades ago, try to bomb a plane with a shoe bomb and ever since, we’ve had to take our shoes off,” said Hogg, referring to Richard Reid, the 2001 “shoe bomber”. “We’ve had thousands of people die of gun violence and we’ve basically done nothing at the federal level to substantially address it,” he said.

Responding to Maine’s Democratic congressman #Jared #Golden, who reversed his opposition to assault rifle bans after the shooting, Hogg said: “Far too often, we see politicians after these shootings on the left and right only come around to actually caring or saying ‘I should have done more’ after members of their own community have been killed.”
“What happened in Maine is horrible, but what happened in Maine in the form of individual shootings happens 🔸every day 🔸in this country and even more with the total number of people that were killed,” said Hogg.
“There are other Democrats out there who are in a similar position right now. 👉I would urge that representative to go and push those other Democrats to be better on the issue before this happens in their community,” he added.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/29/maine-shooting-young-gun-control-activists?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other