GUN AWARENESS PROTEST PRACTICE

Can gun awareness follow the Occupy Portland campers?

Some there looked old enough for the ’60s protests, which means one thing: Boomer Infiltration.

Boomerpdx asks if the 60’s people are doing enough for the greater good?

They fought against the Vietnam War, fought the police at the Chicago Democratic Convention, and heard the guns at Kent State. They’ve been tested. First Wave Boomers have an ‘A Game’ when they bring it.

How do you get them to bring it? Gun awareness.

Frame an issue as a life or death cause, like gun control. By the way, it is a life or death cause.

It’s one thing to protest with your presence, wave signs, shout slogans. But getting gassed until you vomit, clubbed by mounted police, or shot by National Guardsmen?

First Wave Boomer knows it best, the people born between 1946 – 1952.

The news today looks ripe for 60’s people in their 70’s. Are they ready? I think so.

America had a cultural revolution. Read all about it in “The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage.”

Author Todd Gitlin was a mover and shaker, a president of SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, and a hustler.

Did he find the change he wanted? He seems steeped in gun awareness.

Ten years ago he wrote “The Unbearable Elasticity of Gun Logic.”

Ten Years Later For Gun Awareness

Boomers rode America with passion and force, then somehow switched horses. They started out on a racer and finished on a beast of burden.

Let boomers explain why the old counterculture mare just ain’t what she used to be. That’ll get them trotting with purpose. They are rested, tanned, and gym conditioned for another run.

And they have grandkids. In public schools. Like Texas schools.

They go grocery shopping in stores. Like New York stores.

My fourth grade teacher was Mrs. Provence. She was the last year of nice teacher ladies who loved their students.

I’m old enough to look back at my fourth grade class pictures and still remember my classmates.

One thing I’ll never have to remember is which ones got killed in a school shooting. I’ll never have to think of Mrs. Provence getting shot in the face.

Gun Control Ten Years Later

The gun apologists say one thing, the survivors of gun violence say another.

That middle ground needs to stand up for strident application of gun control laws before they find themselves down range.

What should they say?