Trump Tower was featured in the news Saturday when it caught fire – and it’ll soon be in the news again, this time for the March For Our Lives: Volume 2.
The rally, which is scheduled for June 2nd, will begin at Trump International Tower and proceed to Trump Tower, where Trump resided before the White House.
The student leading this march, Aalayah Eastmond, said that New York City is also where one of her family members was fatally shot. Eastmond was among the students who witnessed the shooting herself – including a student being shot to death. She reportedly hid for her life under her dead classmate, an unquestionably traumatic experience.
Admittedly, I’m surprised that the media didn’t promote Aalayah as much as the other pro-gun control students, like Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, or Cameron Kasky, given that she directly witnessed the violence, unlike them.
This march planned on Trump Tower isn’t officially affiliated with the “March For Our Lives,” and instead will be launched with help from Al Sharpton.
In addition to calling for gun control, Sharpton is going to be using the march to address police brutality, presumably to make race an issue in the gun debate for some unknown reason.
According to The Spokesman-Review:
Sharpton said that young people leading recent activism across the country has produced what he called “a necessary marriage of dealing with gun violence as an American issue that jumps over the boundaries of any community and deals with America from every city.”
Another Sharpton concern is how police handle interactions with the mentally ill. On Thursday, police fatally shot a Brooklyn man, Saheed Vassell, as he brandished what turned out to be a welding torch mistaken for a gun.
The man Sharpton is showing concern for, Vassel, was deliberately brandishing the torch in a way that made it look like a firearm to intimidate random citizens. He took a shooting stance with the torch at police officers before they opened fire.
What do you think – will this be a gun control rally or just another left-wing rally? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below!
