The March For Our Lives campaign (the fight against gun violence in schools) has spilled into the streets of American. And the people who are spearheading this fight against it are not the adults, but are the children whose generation is under attack. The youth of today have become the advocates yelling out for change and their voices has took them from the neighborhoods across American, all the way to the White House.

As they march across our country asking for change, what are we doing as adult to help them? Are we writing letter to our politicians asking for change in what is required to ban deadly handguns or are we sitting at our televisions waiting for the next tragic shooting to occur. The March For Our Lives campaign is great to get pubic awareness to the problem, but what are we willing as adults to do to keep our young sons and daughters away from the violence in schools and our streets that happen everyday.

And now the President has anointed cuts in after-school programs because he sees (on paper) no benefits on some children. But what he doesn’t see is the real bonded relationships that develop between mentors, counselors and volunteers that change the direction of so many youth that could have been on a direct path to violence. Some after school programs are short lived because of funding and may not have a large impact, but there are some programs that engage youth all-year-round and keep them at bay of th violent streets.

America cannot handle the truth that GUNS are not the complete problem to violence; it’s us who are not willing to address the problems of mental health, homelessness and poverty. These problems cause people into deep depression, some to indulge in street activities and violence, which sometime causes deadly consequences. The March For Our Lives campaign for safer schools and the reduction of guns in America is just the first push to a intervention. Tackling the problems that cause our violence in America will be our biggest challenge.

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