Meghan

“America’s history has been defined by its violence, the question of how to respond to it largely answered by law enforcement obtaining bigger and better weapons to counter the ones held by criminals. We’ve taken war weapons to the streets and homes of civilians with no idea what harm these weapons can do, or that escalation is never a solution.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“Gun-related deaths are now the second-leading cause of death for American children, who are fourteen times more likely to be killed with guns before age fifteen than children in other high-income countries.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot