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“I fear for my kids when I drop them off at school. Our schools aren’t safe and our kids aren’t safe,” rapper writes following Public Enemy’s gun control song “March Madness”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tFlavor Flav<\/a> has penned an op-ed urging lawmakers to\u00a0pass a total ban on firearms: \u201cNo civilian needs to possess semi-automatic weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOn the heels of Public Enemy<\/a>\u2019s latest single \u201cMarch Madness\u201d<\/a> \u2014 \u201ca powerful rebuke against crooked politicians and the ongoing crisis of gun violence,\u201d the group said in a statement \u2014 the Rock Hall-inducted hype man wrote in his emotional Newsweek<\/em> op-ed<\/a>, \u201cWe are marching ourselves into madness, both in the crazy and angry senses of the word. We are caught in an epidemic of\u00a0gun violence with no sign we can stop or change course.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI fear for my kids when I drop them off at school. Our schools aren\u2019t safe and our kids aren\u2019t safe. This is because gun protection laws are weak. Guns are falling into the hands of the wrong people. I would know. I went to jail because of guns. I ended up on Rikers Island. So I am speaking from first-hand experience,\u201d Flav wrote.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cFear and power are two of the biggest emotions that drive us. America is being built on fear. You have people who are scared. And these people are fighting for gun rights to protect themselves. They wouldn\u2019t have to protect themselves if all guns were banned. Fear is a powerful, short-term motivator. We need to flip it so it can break through to be a positive and valuable resource. Let our fear of losing our children be more powerful than our fear of our next-door neighbor.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMarch Madness,\u201d released on Juneteenth, opens with a teacher calling 911 to report a\u00a0school shooting. \u201cTo us, March Madness is not about the left or the right or politics\u2014it\u2019s about the need to unify, as human beings, to say what is right and what is wrong. Stop putting a price tag on the heads of our children,\u201d Flav wrote.<\/p>\n