Wheeler's angry anthem.Singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler's antigun anthem, "If It Were Up to Me," was recorded several years ago, but it took the shootings at Columbine High School Columbine High School is a secondary school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton city limits and half a mile south of the Denver city/county line. in Littleton, Colo., to finally get its message across. After the tragedy Denver radio station KBCO began playing the out lesbian's song every two hours, and soon enough a slew of other stations joined in. The protest hit a crescendo on May 1, when Wheeler stood outside the annual National Rifle Association National Rifle Association (NRA) Governing organization for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols. It was founded in Britain in 1860. The U.S. organization, formed in 1871, has a membership of some four million. Both the British and the U.S. convention in Denver singing, "flit were up to me, I'd take away the guns," to thousands of sympathizers. Wheeler's label, Rounder Records Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts but now based in Burlington, is an independent record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students. , is chanting along by donating proceeds to the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence. Wheeler, like the rest of the world, was devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. by Littleton. "While we, as adults, find ourselves like lemmings," she tells The Buzz, "when we get close to the edge of the cliff, we tend to throw our children off instead." |
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