The editorial "Will America Choose Its Children Over Guns?" from The New York Times states how the mass shooting at Parkland, Florida should be the last straw when it comes to gun violence and the reason why there should be better gun laws and more light shed on the issue. Rather than just having politicians sending their condolences to the victims and their families and stating how these incidents shouldn't happen, they should be more concern with passing stricter gun laws. The audience I believe that this author is trying to convey this information to are parents or anyone who is concerned about the future of our children. Gun violence is becoming a normal issue in America with the number of mass shootings that take place within a year. Shouldn't there have been much stricter gun laws in place before the next tragedy, why is it until we have high school students who survived a mass shooting asking lawmakers themselves face to face to change gun laws. The author of the editorial makes this exact point in their own words by writing "These kids have had enough.They've had enough of empty expressions of sympathy in the wake of the sort of atrocities they've grown up with, like last weeks mass shooting that took 17 lives at a high school in Parkland, Fl.". The author makes it very clear throughout the editorial that we need to listen to our young protesters/children and realize the damage that is being done to their lives due to gun violence. The title of the editorial ties into how this situation should end. The safety and reassurance of the future of our children should be much more important than arguing over the age limit to buy a gun or the extent of a background check.
All throughout history, there has been a lack of diversity in the U.S. government. For example, from the very beginning, only white land owning males had the ability to vote. And the laws and people they were voting for were created by white males as well as the fact the candidates were also white males themselves. This ideology has certainly stayed in play even with all the change we have seen throughout the decades in the government. Like when women finally had the right to vote in the 1920's. But that didn't mean that all women had the right to vote. So women of low socioeconomic class and minorities were not given the right to vote. In fact, Native American women were not given the right to vote until four years later in 1924. As for African American women, in some states, they weren't given the right to vote until the 1960's. So anyone who wasn't white or rich were unable to vote for a period of time. We can still see these characteristics play a role in today&
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