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U.S. student walkout sends message on gun violence

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Good for these young adults. It would be great if the idiot conservative gun fetishists would take the hint that something needs to be done. I know that's wishful thinking given how ignorant conservatives are. How do they remember how to breath?

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"We don't feel safe in schools anymore,"

And why is it 'adults' can't understand this?

Many Americans don't feel safe in movie theaters, at church, at a concert, while driving a car, really anywhere, knowing that a person with a legally purchased gun, someone who's previously exhibited no signs of a mental disorder could suddenly crack and use a weapon that only the military or police should have to slaughter them along with dozens of others.

More power to the students!

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Wingnut logic:

Missing classes every Friday for football pep rallies = A-OK

Missing classes to protest being shot = EXPEL!!!!

Dear students: Keep up the fight like your lives depend on it, because they do!

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Apparently at one school the teachers staged a tornado drill at the exact time of the walk-out in order to have an excuse to punish all the students who left the building.

Which isn't just ridiculous, it exposes the deep fear of these teachers at the prospect of even encountering an idea they disagree with. Such cowardice is the utter antithesis of everything teaching should be about. They may as well redesign their sign to say, "We failed our students, and they no longer need us."

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The next generation of voters are speaking time to listen up.

Ok, but it has nothing to do with the 2nd amendment.

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I like what these kids are doing. It's a new front in the debate: self-defense.

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Ok, but it has nothing to do with the 2nd amendment.

The next generation of voters protesting firearm violence has nothing to do with the Second Amendment? Riiiiight.

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Teacher's gun goes off in classroom, injuring one. A GUN PROBLEM, not a mental health problem!

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this is done. The main CNN kid just announced live that "celebrities" would be joining their march.

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and can we please retire the "hey hey ho ho" chant? is there no creative person in any of these groups?

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@blacklabel please retire the "hey 

I think and your fellow Trump supporters in the US and 'abroad', those who've favored undermining US democratic processes like the balance and separation of powers, and things like law enforcement agencies, a free and for-profit press among others might prefer the old "2, 4, 6, 8, organize and smash the state".

How about a variant on 'Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is gonna win'. And win they did.

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The irony of the conservatives who allegedly cherish life, especially the lives of young people whilst at the same time dismissing their bravery and refusal to become yet more death statistics.

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I have nothing but admiration for these young people. Many will be voting in 2020.

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Many will be voting in 2020

and lets hope they are well informed before they do.

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Many will be voting in 2020

Let’s truly hope none of them have their lives cut short before then.

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and lets hope they are well informed before they do.

Agreed.

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Let’s truly hope none of them have their lives cut short before then.

Agreed. Can't be well informed if your dead.

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Well the little CNN kid already said he is going to "outlive" all the old people who dont agree with him. So it only matters what "kids" think now, he says.

18 yr olds mature enough to vote for gun bans, but not mature enough to own an actual gun. How does that work? Talking about free college now, and the environment, and LGBT rights and illegal immigrants, all Dem talking points. These kids are being USED.

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Buy guns and ammo to protect yourself thats what is real meaning of survival! Protests will met with deaf ears.You guys should know how maasive influence the NRA does have !

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Trump and NRA are struggling to reduce gun violence. Three weeks ago, they issued joint statement. Because violence comics influence people to shoot guns, they decided to stop sales of video comics. Nintendo was top target. If you live in USA,, hide old comics. I hid Superman and Wonderwoman.

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U.S. student walkout sends message on gun violence

Yes - the message is that George Soros and MoveOn.org are funding the politicization of public schools and the teachers unions are using tax payer funded resources to push their anti-Bill of Rights agenda.

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Did they think we would be stupid enough to believe that students would be giving anti-gun messages after 17 of their own were slaughtered?

Obviously this is a radical left sleeper mission to manipulate the message. Because of that, we are justified in ignoring the students.

The real victims here are law abiding gun owners.

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I love how the right trots out the ol' some rich liberal guy or liberal group is paying for this when they don't agree with what protesters are saying. Does that mean that when they do agree with protesters some rich, conservative guy or conservative group is paying and is it then okay? As for the politicization of public schools, how about the right supporting school prayer, not supporting free speech, supporting the public funding of charter schools and so on. It's a two-way street, isn't it?

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Well the little CNN kid already said he is going to "outlive" all the old people who dont agree with him. So it only matters what "kids" think now, he says.

Yes these geriatric Trump voters need to go. That will be a good thing.

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@SuperLib: Did they think we would be stupid enough to believe that students would be giving anti-gun messages after 17 of their own were slaughtered?

So would you be okay if students marched out of their public school to attend a church service to eulogize the victims on taxpayer funded property? Same thing as this political protest encouraged by school officials. So if some students want to walk out of class to support the second amendment school officials must now allow it.

The real victims here are law abiding gun owners.

The only victims are those people murdered by Nikolas Cruz.

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Does that mean that when they do agree with protesters some rich, conservative guy or conservative group is paying and is it then okay?

If a rich conservative pays to encourage public school students to protest on tax payer funded property then no, that would not be okay.

As for the politicization of public schools, how about the right supporting school prayer, not supporting free speech, supporting the public funding of charter schools and so on. It's a two-way street, isn't it?

The Right can use their right to free speech to argue that school prayer should be allowed all they want- they just can’t do it on school property. The Left are the ones that are a threat to free speech- particularly on college campuses. The Right can support charter schools as-long-as they don’t protest for it on public property. So yes, it is a two-way street. If conservative students decide to protest in support of the second amendment, the Left has no argument to make against it.

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Wolfpack: So if some students want to walk out of class to support the second amendment school officials must now allow it.

Of course not. I'd just say that you are manipulating them. Then I'd find a kid standing up for gun rights on Fox News, and I'd call him the "Fox News Kid" to undercut his message. I don't want to sound insensitive to the kids, so I'll say they they are giving your talking points so I can ignore them and their message. Then I'd criticize you for using them like that.

Wouldn't that be the better option?

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Students can protest outside of school, regardless of whether their protest supports a liberal or conservative cause. It is up to the school to decide whether or not they will be punished for skipping classes to protest. If a school decides not to punish students for skipping classes for this particular protest that is within the school's right. I have no issue with students protesting in favor of the Second Amendment or any other amendment, regardless of whether or not I agree with their stance.

If a rich conservative pays to encourage public school students to protest on tax payer funded property then no, that would not be okay.

I think you're phrasing is misleading to begin with. Who is being paid exactly? Is this as in a salary or is it support for transportation, lodging, etc? Either way, what's the issue? People are allowed to be politically involved and to support the causes they believe in. Heaven knows the Koch brothers have. If you think the kids protesting are too stupid to make their own decisions with regards to gun control, then, again, that cuts both ways. If they're too dumb to know when they're being duped into supporting gun control, then they're also too dumb to know when they're being duped into supporting gun rights. It's just my personal opinion, but I'm giving them more credit than that. Sure they may change their minds about things as time goes by but I'd rather have them politically engaged in something they believe in than the alternative. I'd rather their opinions, regardless of whether or not I agree with them, be voiced and heard. Complacency is far more dangerous to a democracy than protests.

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The Right can use their right to free speech to argue that school prayer should be allowed 

Nobody gets killed from not praying in school. This protest is about being on the deadly end of a military grade weapon in schools that happens repeatedly. Not about worshiping some stupid zombie that flies in the air.

Well the little CNN kid

Little is right. These kids have much smaller waistlines compared to the usual waistline of the average obese Trump voter. Little is not an insult. It's just true, it's an observation in the eyes of a fat Trump followers.

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Nobody gets killed from not praying in school.

Don’t you mean no one gets killed from praying in school?

These kids have much smaller waistlines compared to the usual waistline of the average obese Trump voter. 

Oprah, Joy Behar, and Hillary aren’t super models.

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Republican voters tend to be less educated than Democratic voters. Less educated Americans tend to be poorer than educated ones and less educated Americans tend to be more overweight than wealthier Americans. Trump ran as a Republican. I'm just saying.

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