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Parkland student survivors Ryan Deitsch and Sofie Whitney visiting with New Haven East Rock Community School students two months after the massacre.
Cowards in the hall of Congress
Bending to the will of the NRA
They really know that there’s an answer
Hiding in plain sight/ They always get away …
Flak jacket cops storm an American school
Anguished parents press at the cordon
Wondering if they’ll see their children soon …
When is this going to stop?
What are you going to do?
Are you going to save our children? …
No more guns, no more prayers,
No more silene, no more tears
What are you going to do?
A year after a gunman shot 17 people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Steve Mednick marked the occasion with a call to arms. Or, more precisely, to disarm.
Mednick, a local attorney and politico who launched a second career as a songwriter and recording artist/performer, has completed a new album (his 15th) entitled Enough. He wrote seven of the songs inspired by the Parkland massacre.
The album is cry from the heart for gun control, combining Mednick’s legal, political, and musical passions.
The album isn’t out yet. But Mednick previewed five of the tracks during an appearance on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven” program marking the Parkland anniversary.
Click on the video at the bottom of this story to watch an interview with Mednick and to hear the sampled tracks, including the anthemic Dire Straits-reminiscent “What Are You Going To Do?” (from which the above lyrics were excerpted).