{"id":28240,"date":"2018-02-19T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=28240"},"modified":"2018-02-19T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T20:10:46","slug":"homage-to-parkland-well-stand-by-you-watch-the-ps22chorus-and-stop-the-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2018-02\/homage-to-parkland-well-stand-by-you-watch-the-ps22chorus-and-stop-the-bs\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to Parkland: We’ll Stand By You–Watch The PS(22Chorus) and Stop The BS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the wake of the massacre at\u00a0Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School<\/strong>\u00a0in Parkland<\/strong>, Florida<\/strong>, Americans seem to have finally galvanized behind a powerful and heartbreaking speech given by\u00a0<\/strong>that school’s\u00a0Emma Gonzalez<\/strong>\u00a0(you can watch it\u00a0HERE<\/strong><\/a>) and the outcry and actions from her classmates and countless other students and parents across the nation against the maleficent inability of our political “leaders” to meaningfully control guns in America. The madness must end or be meaningfully reduced! No other nation suffers a similar affliction! The damnable\u00a0NRA<\/strong>\u00a0gun-manufacturers’ lobby must be stopped and its political prostitutes<\/strong>\u00a0(see one list HERE<\/strong><\/a>) must pay for the blood on their complicit hands. Let’s not let this just be one more in an endless string of shootings and killings. Let’s cut the cord. Come one, come all and march on March 24th, April 20th and any and all other days necessary towards this goal. Let’s work to register voters and then get out the vote to toss out the NRA’s<\/strong> political henchmen and begin to make meaningful change.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of this latest atrocity, we were struck (yet again<\/strong><\/a>) over the weekend by a performance by the PS22 Chorus<\/strong><\/a>. This time of their take on\u00a0The Pretenders’<\/strong> I’ll Stand By You\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(lyrics at bottom). Watch it below in all its sweet glory. And then imagine these innocent children slaughtered by yet another automatic-weapons wielding psychopath. Yes, it seems unimaginable. But in America, as sure as the day becomes night, if we don’t throw out the NRA’s<\/strong> accomplices and things don’t meaningfully change, Parkland<\/strong> (following\u00a0Sandy Hook, Columbine<\/strong>, etc. ad nauseam<\/em><\/strong>) will happen again. And again. Let’s not let that happen!<\/p>\n