Student Protesters Nationwide Smarter than Republican Politicians on Gun Crisis.
It always seemed the gun debate pitted logic and common sense against cliches and imagined 2nd Amendment gun rights that even covered specific gun models.
The Children: For example, here are the fearless articulate messages we’re hearing from high school students:
and this…
The “Adults:” Now here are the “look over there” distractions being sold first, by Wisconsin’s own embarrassing NRA sellout Paul Ryan, who couldn’t look or sound more ridiculous:
and this position…where “we has the wisdom.”
Republicans are Everything They Say We Are: We have to come up with a new word to describe those blindly hypocritical “real Americans.” It’s not funny or ironic anymore. How do you have a debate with someone who has no self-awareness at all? For instance…this kid’s protest sign and the fact that schools had to cancel their protests due to what, armed threats?
Schools Try to Stop Student Protesters with Threats, Suspensions: Those “constitutional conservatives” out there never did like the First Amendment much. You know, this part…the “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” lacks the necessary obedience-to-power Trumpian right-wingers can’t get enough of.
First, from the Waukesha School District, in the words of one student there:
As students at Waukesha North march and walk out to create a movement, we are being faced with threats of truancy tickets from an administration which has backtracked their own statements to the point of incoherency. First, student organizers at North were threatened by the School District of Waukesha for any type of advocacy in any way pertaining to them or their students. After the district’s statement made national news on CNN, Todd Gray gave an interviewing denying his stance against students taking part in the movement.
Then again, they changed their stance, with principals giving guidelines to something closer resemble an assembly than a protest. Still, we tried to find a compromise. The realization that they were warping our ideas beyond recognition came when we were told we couldn’t call it a walk out or a protest. The same administration with the audacity to tell us that The Women’s March, a group actively advocating for legislative change so that it’s harder for students to get hurt, was using us to push their own agenda, turned out to be using us to warp and quiet the story.
And so many others…
Nevada school administrators threatened to withhold students’ diplomas and kick students off sports teams for participating in the walkout.
Students in Texas were told they would be suspended if they protest gun violence, on the same day a local 14-year-old was charged over a shooting threat…”All will be suspended for 3 days and parent notes will not alleviate the discipline … A school is a place to learn and grow educationally, emotionally and morally. A disruption of the school will not be tolerated.”
Sophomore Rosa Rodriquez the only student to walk out of Sayreville HS this morning #nationalwalkout Under threat of suspension several hundred others allowed to attend gathering in school auditorium #1010wins
A number of high schools cancelled or postponed their planned walkouts after receiving anonymous violent threats related to the protests. In Broughton High School in Raleigh, North Carolina; Hackensack High School in Bergen County, New Jersey; D.C. Everesthigh school in Weston, Wisconsin; Mukwonago High School in Wisconsin; and Romeoville High School in Illinois, protests were cancelled or postponed because of threats, sometimes in instances in which the threats were found not to be credible, out of an abundance of caution. In one instance, Shikellamy High School’s protest in Pennsylvania was cut short because of the threat of a drive-by shooting. Clearview Regional High School and Clearview Middle School in Gloucester County, New Jersey, were closed entirely because of an anonymous threat.
An Ohio high school student has found himself at the center of political controversy after an online post about his suspension for staying in class during the national student school walkout went viral … he chose not to join his classmates because he didn’t go to a designated area of the school where the non-protesters were supposed to be, he didn’t want to choose a side, and instead stayed by himself in a classroom.
On social media Shoemaker’s now-viral suspension slip has been spun into a tale about how a liberal school system impeded the rights of a student who supported the Second Amendment, On Twitter, users shared Shoemaker’s photos of the suspension slip with hashtags such as #GunControlNever and #LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder. One person tweeted, “To paraphrase George Orwell, some speech is more equal than others.”
To all the students who suddenly realized they all have truly remarkable power. Their message is so clear and so well-stated that it stands in stark contrast to the mindnumbing nonsense spewed out by Republican politicians.
National Gun Protest Comes To Wisconsin As Students Walk Out
Thousands Of Students Attend Rally At State Capitol, Walk Out Across State
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Jason SteinVerified account @jasonmdstein Mar 14
In the most striking chant of the day, students at WI Capitol chant, “Are we next?” They answer their own question, “Not any more!” #NationalWalkoutDay
Jan SchakowskyVerified account @janschakowsky
.@HouseDemocrats and @SenateDems getting ready to walk out in solidarity with the #NationalWalkoutDay. We’re joining student advocates across the country to say #EnoughisEnough
Jamiles Lartey
@JamilesLartey | 6,250 followers
Students at Booker T Washington High School in Atlanta talking a knee as part of the #NationalWalkoutDay protests.
Lois BeckettVerified account @loisbeckett Mar 14
Covering a walkout this morning at an elementary school in Virginia, and the 11-year-old organizers had a press packet ready for me.
Lois BeckettVerified account @loisbeckett Mar 14
Students have stood up again. Complete silence. Their faces are so serious. One of them was shaking with the cold and still holding up her sign.
There are lots of caveats you could make about this Alexandria walkout. But the gravity the kids brought to 18 long minutes in the cold—even their parents seemed surprised by it.
A former liberal radio talk host who likes to ask the “follow-up question” at Democurmudgeon.blogspot.com
Source: http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2018/03/student-protesters-nationwide-smarter.html
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Ahhh, uninformed students who believe they are doing good and how much safer we will all be not having a gun. You teens need to read history and you also need to understand we don’t have a gun problem. This is manufactured. Didn’t any of you listen to what one of your teachers seen and reported? I wish I can talk directly to you and wake you up to reality. As it is now, you are dong the enemies work. Congratulations on being used as innocent victims.
I am more anti-gun than anyone I know. I wouldn’t own one ( one major reason being that I grew up in a very violent situation, and I suspect I would be quick to actually use one).
However…… sadly the republicans are right on this one.
Sadly as well, they are right now because in the past they have been so wrong.
Our legal system has allowed the saturation of our society with weapons that are unnecessarily powerful and destructive.
There are quite simply so many guns out there that it has become a situation of shoot or get shot. We have turned into an overpopulated low IQ brainwashed nation of criminals and gun toting nut cases.
Which puts the average citizen in a situation where they need something for detente’.
Now that guns are everywhere, guns NEED to be everywhere. Which is a bizarre paradox, but indeed reality.
Sadly, we are far too evil and violent of a society to not be armed in.
Students, just like us hippies back when we were students, think in terms of ideals. But ideals are merely that, and do not become reality.
The real world is still the real world, and no matter what your politics or religion is, you can’t think away or dream away reality.
Human nature is what it is, and instead of sticks, rocks, and bows and arrows, we now have metal projectiles that can be aimed and sent into human bodies at speed beyond what our eyes can detect. And we are crawling with them like bedbugs on illegals.
Which we are also crawling with. Which makes us even more dangerous of a place to live unarmed.
We are in a horrible catch 22.
As I say, I wish all guns had been made illegal years ago, but they were not, and now it is too late.
We have crested the hill and are sailing down the other side with busted brakes.