What we *All* (especially Parents, hopefully) Want.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”

Thoughts and prayers won’t stop gunmen with assault weapons or keep our kids safe. Banning assault weapons will.

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— Everytown for Gun Safety (@everytown.bsky.social) August 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents:

This week on our longrunning, ongoing “Walk the Talk Show” podcast and video series, with awards and millions of views over the years…

Waylon shares a reminder that while we all want nice air to breathe, healthy water to drink, a stable planet for our children to grow up on, and for our children to be safe…we vote for politicians and support corporations that do the exact opposite. Again and again.

“We gotta walk our talk. So that’s the name of this video series, Walk The Talk Show.

It’s exhausting.

It’s exhausting to talk about the same thing.

So this is just a reminder, if you do care—let’s deeply care. Let’s be willing to care, willing to expose our hearts and actually make some changes.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

Watch the video:

“ We shouldn’t have a right to have weapons of war on our streets. And reasonable gun reform won’t solve every single shooting, but we’ve seen that in other countries it reduces it.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

Can’t watch the video? Why not listen?

“Let’s be brave enough to feel and take action.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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“The vast majority of Americans want to take action. Thoughts and prayers are a great start. Nothing’s wrong with thoughts and prayers, but if that’s where it ends, everything’s wrong with thoughts and prayers.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

More Elephant Journal articles with context to the conversation:

>> “The Solution to Gun Violence.” by Waylon Lewis

>> “If you’re arguing online against commonsense gun reform that 90% of Americans support right now, you are the problem.” by Waylon Lewis 

>> “Waylon with Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand on Gun Reform.

>> “If Guns were as regulated as Cars.” by Lynn J. Broderick

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 ”What I am requesting is participation. Elephant has 13 million fans on social media and millions of readers, but we are only able to bring folks together around caring, fact-based conversation—people who disagree but can do so agreeably or respectfully—if you participate and right now independent media is getting killed by Facebook, et cetera.

They smother and suppress links. So when you go to elephantjournal.com, when you go to elephantjournal.com/best and get our free newsletter, when you go to elephantjournal.com/post and write something and share it—you keep independent media live, but more importantly, you keep respectful conversation, community, and caring facts alive.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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