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(Archive April 2018) Gun Violence Addressed by Editor-in-Chief

By editorialteam on February 5, 2025

By Brianna Stevens | Editor-in-Chief

On March 24, the March For Our Lives was held in Boston as a sister march to the one in DC. This is not a Republican vs. Democrat issue anymore; it is an American issue because American people are dying every day due to gun violence. I fully acknowledge that gun violence is not the only way that Americans are dying, but it is the issue at hand currently, so please keep the texting and driving statistics to yourself. This is about gun violence in America.

The time to change federal laws needs to be now to protect current and future generations. The change I want to see is legislative change to make it more difficult for individuals like the Parkland shooter to get guns.  read more

(Archive April 2018) Students Encouraged to #WalkUp vs. #WalkOut

By editorialteam on February 5, 2025

By Alexa Nogueira | Observer Contributor

The original poster that Jodie Katsetos attached to her viral Facebook post.

On the one month anniversary of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, multiple students chose to take part in the national protest that is #WalkOut. The national walk out took place on March 14 at 10 a.m. and lasted for seventeen minutes, to honor the seventeen people who were killed on Valentine’s day. 

Jodie Katsetos, a sixth grade teacher at Arcadia Middle School in Oak Hall, Virginia, heard about the proposed walkout and offered an alternative message, #WalkUp, which has since gone viral.  read more

(Archive April 2018) Boston March for Our Lives Expresses Outrage

By editorialteam on February 5, 2025

By Christine Nelson | Observer Contributor

Taken at the Boston March for Our Lives Event on March 24th, on the Boston Common
Photos by Brianna Stevens

A student-led March for Our Lives in Boston attracted tens of thousands of people to the Boston Common on Saturday, March 24. The March, which combined energy, outrage, defiance, and determination, denounced gun violence in America and urged for far stricter gun control laws.

Thousands of students started the March at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Roxbury. Marchers walked two miles down Columbus St. and arrived at the Boston Common for the rally, chanting “Enough is enough.” A sea of people and signs on the Common greeted the students with cheers, clapping, and music.  read more

(Archive March 2018) Gun Reform Editorial

By editorialteam on February 5, 2025

By Brianna Stevens | Editor-in-Chief

Ar-15 photo taken by Mitch Barrie from Reno, NV for Wikimedia
Photo by Mitch Barrie, from Wikimedia Commons

I am in support of the second amendment. I agree that there are people who should have guns. I am a supporter of Americans having the right to own a gun as long as they go through the right channels to obtain, register, and own that gun. I am a supporter of the second amendment.

“Guns don’t kill people” is something I have been hearing for as long as I can remember. I understand the meaning behind that phrase is the person behind the gun that kills people, but how did that person, who was intent on taking people’s lives, obtain a gun? Thoughts and prayers will not stop someone from taking another person’s life.  read more