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I believe the children are our future...

(fair warning - I may drop a couple f-bombs) I should know better than to read the comment section on Facebook. Today, kids across our nation have taken time from their regularly scheduled classes to walk out in protest to our current gun control situation. Simultaneously, they used that time to honor victims of school shootings not only in Parkland, Florida one month ago, but each and every shooting death that could have been prevented. But, I'm not here to argue about gun control today. I could probably write a book about how I feel on that subject. I happened to catch a live feed on Facebook from a Roanoke news station, and at the bottom of the screen were a slew of little, angry face emojis. You know, those red and yellow dot frowny-faces with the furrowed eyebrows you click when something makes you upset? Yeah... those. The video is of a walkout at a nearby middle school, where students are peacefully protesting. They walked outside and held hands for seventeen minut