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Ron Martz: This children’s crusade needs a different tone
Youthful gun-control advocates should talk ‘with’ their elders, not ‘at’ them, to get results
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Sixth-grader Violet Feigenbutz holds a sign during a March For Our Lives protest, Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Moscow, Idaho. (Kai Eiselein/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)
Despite all its good intentions, the children’s crusade against guns being spearheaded by some of the more vocal survivors of the February shooting deaths of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is beginning to resemble a previous crusade by children.
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Opinion: Sacrifices must be made by all to keep Democracy
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President Donald Trump listens during an event Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. - photo by Associated Press
Donald Trump and the Republican Party are, in a helter-skelter fashion, converting American democracy into an autocracy with Trump as the autocrat.
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