These young Americans can either already Vote, or they will be eligible to vote very, very soon. Chances they'll vote Republican after the movement created out of the Parkland Douglas High Massacre? Approaching zero...

The Left has been predicting the end of the GOP

since the W Bush Administration invaded Iraq in March of 2003; when 17 of the 19 attackers in the hijacked airplanes came from Saudi Arabia and none of them came from Iraq.

All such prognostications were failures, and today the Republican Party is still alive (if not so well) in the United States. They currently maintain a majority in the US Congress and in about 2/3rds of the various Statehouse Legislatures & Governorships, too. They are running the American government at all levels.

Which makes them responsible, in the eyes of the young adults in American high schools, for the continuing firearms violence killing their fellow students — sometimes killing a fellow student crouching in fear of an armed Active Shooter in their school right next to them in a classroom.

The response of the media in the past week to the increasingly loud cry for DO SOMETHING coming from these traumatized young people has been astounding, to me at least. I haven’t seen any talking heads on the TV News-adjacent programming yet predict that this latest uprising of average people over a very public mass murder of kids in American schools will soon peter out and end with a whisper… as every such movement in the past decade or more about these mass public shootings has done.

Instead, it appears that the force and power of this movement is picking up speed and authority with each passing day. CNN hosted a Town Hall with some of the Douglas High survivors, their parents and the Broward County Sheriff and an NRA representative (Dana Loesch, a known NRA apologist and paid promoter). The young survivor, Emma Gonzalez (@Emma4Change) made mincemeat out of Loesch, failing to fall for her hypnotizing word-salad monologue, and repeatedly demanding an actual answer to the question asked — without a single ‘excuse me’ of interruption by the Host, by the way. He let Loesch just ramble endlessly, repeating the same sound bites multiple times in an effort to avoid answering truthfully the question at hand, “ Do YOU believe it should be harder to obtain semi-automatic and fully automatic weapons?”

So why is this time different?

After all, people in America have been seeking more and better gun control for longer than most of you realize…

h/t to Daily Kos user yogibear1963

In which an earlier generation also appears to have left some of the political agitation to the comedians, about an issue as serious as Gun Control:

What appears to be different this time around, is that the victims of the latest massacre in a public high school aren’t letting the adults take care of the response to this violent event. They’re doing it themselves. In less than a week, some of them were in the Oval Office with the President and the Vice President, with the Press, bringing their message of “Do Something” to the highest seat of power in the world.

Don’t believe me — listen to these young people yourself:

While I personally have my doubts that even such an event as this will affect the actions of Donald Trump or this Republican Congress; I am fully cognizant that these young people are also eminently educated about their ability to force change on America at the ballot box which is quickly approaching if not already here for some of them.

Which is why I chose the title I did. It’s not clickbait. I truly believe that should the Republicans, starting with the Oval Office and following down all the way to local Dog Catcher in small towns across the Republic, continue on their path of “I support the 2nd Amendment”, it will spell their doom within five years.

There will be approximately (per US Census data) 4 million new 18 year olds in 2020 alone, increasing at the rate of about 11,000 new eligible voters each and every day from now until then.

If this movement to #DoSomething about #GunControlNow and end the slaughter of American kids in schools, in malls, in parks, at Military bases, at Concerts, at the movies - any and everywhere in America these days, continues to grow and pick up speed and strength in the teen and young adult population in the United States?

And in the midst of all this, the ammosexuals continue to bleat their weary and ridiculous claim of:

“Never forget these words — To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.” — Wayne Lapierre at the 2018 CPAC convention, FEB 22, 2018

They say this in all seriousness, ignoring completely that beginning with the school mass shooting commemorated by the Michael Moore documentary “Columbine”, there was an armed police officer present — as there has been at many of these public shootings. Which didn't make any difference to the outcome of more dead children, killed in an horrific and violent hail of armor-piercing bullets, in any of these tragic and deadly incidents.

If the Republicans fail to recognize that (finally) there has been a change in the Zeitgeist in these United States, on the slaughter of our fellow Americans and their children with weapons of War here on our own soil? If they continue to be the Guns Over People Party in this year of an electorate already reeling from the information and criminal charges emerging from the Robert Mueller investigation?

I think it may well spell D. O. O. M. to the Grand Old Party.

No one could deserve to slip into the dusty pages of history more.