Actor Turned Activist
“Please don’t make me be in politics,” he says. “I’m asked all the time. And I say, ‘Please, no, please, don’t make me, please let me write songs.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American play wright, lyricist, and composer. Some of his work includes Hamilton and co-writing the lyrics for Disney’s Moana. Some of his future roles include co-staring in the upcoming film Mary Poppins Returns.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards.
Now, he is using his popularity to take the stage in a brand new way.
March for our Lives is a movement to lower gun control. They want universal background checks for everyone who owns a gun.
Gun control is a big issue in the United States, according to the constitution, we have a right to bear arms. However, I believe that it is time to review that amendment.
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a global phenomenon, he cares about people that are under-represented. For example the young voices that do not have the power to turn political tides like the Parkland students.
Universal background checks need to be implemented before the purchase of any gun. If they are not used properly they can have devastating affects on everyone.
Teachers, students, staff, movie goers, concert attendees, night club dancers, and people living day to day; they do not need to live in that kind of fear all the time.
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The movement is not just about school shootings. They bring up things like; the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Pulse in Orlando Florida, to get control on gun control.
John Papanier, Co-Founder of March For Our Lives said, “ “The possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
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