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They've had enough. Students across country walk out to demand new gun laws

Sampson Simpson said:
Another dumb comment, can you guys ever come up with an actual argument?
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The key word, as far as the more extreme "Pro-Gun Nuts" are concerned, is the word "infringed" and, to those people that means that ANY limitation on ANY person possessing ANY type of weapon is "unconstitutional" (well, as far as that doesn't mean that the people whom they think shouldn't have any weapons at all should have any "right" to "keep and bear arms" is concerned).
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
Hey you could have found a wife at this type of protest.
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Rhetorically attacking and dismissing our students is all our gop friends have.
They certainly can't deal with the message, nor do they understand it.
Today's students are tomorrow's leaders, something of which we should all be proud ...
 
NIMBY said:
Rhetorically attacking and dismissing our students is all our gop friends have.
They certainly can't deal with the message, nor do they understand it.
Today's students are tomorrow's leaders, something of which we should all be proud ...
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The students are exercising their first amendment rights...Something these old angry gun nuts seem to be against
 
PirateMk1 said:
About as much as what an old been there done that got the t-shirt several times rat bastard like me cares, what some young inexperienced punk thinks. Like not at all. Most of those youngsters haven't been slapped upside the head hard, by that cruel bitch, Life. She'll get to them eventually, she always does.
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:yt Exactly right. Maybe we should consult with them on foreign policy too.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
What is an "assault rifle" and what makes it (vastly?) different from any other semi-auto rifle?
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Well, for one thing an "assault rifle" is capable of fully automatic fire.

What the people who are calling for a ban on "assault rifles" are actually calling for is a ban on "weapons that look like assault rifles".

Besides "BAN Assault Rifle Lookalikes" takes up too much space on the picket sign.
 
MateoMtnClimber said:
You seem angry. I can't imagine why.
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I am not even remotely angry. That is just you projecting your own emotional condition onto things you read.

Since you obviously have not been listening to the students, let me inform you that they are emotional, yes. They are angry. They're hurt and they're scared. At the same time, they are forming opinions that will affect their behavior and politics for the rest of their lives. People like you who dismiss them, call them immature and uneducated, encourage them to grow up, and write off their words and deeds as temporary and dumb, drive them swiftly and surely away from the ideas you want them to consider. In other words, you are creating enemies out of children who will strip you of your voice and your power.
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I have heard them, at least the chosen ones the left wing media has chosen to hold up as spokesmen. These kids are pandered to and allowed to voice their incoherent, NRA hating rants without even a hint of criticism by those 'interviewing' them.

So stupid. But by all means, please keep insulting, alienating, and enraging the next generation of leaders and voters.
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I havent insulted them. I have referred to them as children. Which they are. Uneducated. Which they are. Emotional. Which they are. And accused them of spouting left wing anti-gun rights talking points. Which they are. If you wish to be ruled by 16 year olds, good luck with that.
 
Saladin4 said:
The students are exercising their first amendment rights...Something these old angry gun nuts seem to be against
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I see these students as just as serious as Conor Lamb.
They're sick of the nonsense, and will bring back common-sense.

I still get to teach these students in retirement.
I so look forward to being with them every week, as we now prep for tests in AP Physics and AP Chem.
I also look forward to discussing Professor Hawking and his accomplishments, with the students, our future ...
 
Saladin4 said:
The students are exercising their first amendment rights...Something these old angry gun nuts seem to be against
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False. No one is opposed to them exercising their first amendment rights. They are being criticized for using their first amendment rights to help deny people their second amendment rights. You would have to not want to understand that to not understand that.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
Gun lovers act like an AR-15 is more important than an alive 15 year old.
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I don't give a **** about someone else's kids, that's their problem, I do give a crap about my families and my rights being eroded. As far as I am concerned that massacre at the school is the result of arrogant parents who didn't care about their children enough to bother to teach them about basic self-defense, or if they were on the young side see to it they had a ready defence present. That is the PARENTS responsibilty. So yea my rifles and pistols and other arms ARE FAR MORE important than somebodies pimply faced 15 year old teenaged headache. The people who dance around the issue are ******s and quite frankly I cant stand them.
 
Goshin said:
:yt Exactly right. Maybe we should consult with them on foreign policy too.
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I'm sure these students wouldn't be so stupid and ignorant as to launch 'liddle rocket man' idiocy as this president does ...
 
Fletch said:
False. No one is opposed to them exercising their first amendment rights. They are being criticized for using their first amendment rights to help deny people their second amendment rights. You would have to not want to understand that to not understand that.
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Yeah right.....Funny to see all the NRA types lashing out in fear...The students's message is powerful and they won't be silenced......Deal with it
 
Crovax said:
Don’t worry those kids who do support the 2nd amendment and stayed in class will soon know all about divisiveness
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So, people are not just "pro-2A" and "anti-2A". In fact, I've always said that all people can be divided into two groups: Good people and assholes. Maybe we should try that rather than insult minor children about their gun control opinions.
 
PirateMk1 said:
I don't give a **** about someone else's kids, that's their problem, I do give a crap about my families and my rights being eroded. As far as I am concerned that massacre at the school is the result of arrogant parents who didn't care about their children enough to bother to teach them about basic self-defense, or if they were on the young side see to it they had a ready defence present. That is the PARENTS responsibilty. So yea my rifles and pistols and other arms ARE FAR MORE important than somebodies pimply faced 15 year old teenaged headache. The people who dance around the issue are ******s and quite frankly I cant stand them.
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Spoken like somebody who hates America...Duly noted
 
Are you surprised that these kids carried through with their planned march and didn't just fade away after a few days/weeks like every other mass shooting? Anyone surprised by this is/was not really hearing these young people and their concerns/message - they who will soon be tomorrow's generation of voters, leaders, lawmakers, etc. Eventually they will be making the decisions on our country whether we like it or not.
 
My kids are home and they both participated. Feedback:

More of the students (and there were many hundreds of them) were girls rather than boys.

They walked to the athletic fields, stood as an extremely large group, and bent their heads for 17 minutes without anyone saying anything.

After the 17 minutes were over, a few of the students spoke to the group and the administration who joined the kids. The ones that spoke all support the 2A and don't wish to have hunting and shooting sports banned. They hope that the lawmakers in DC at least begin to have meaningful and relevant discussions about what happened in Parkland and Sandy Hook (which these kids also remember). They talked about fear in schools and how hard it is to be afraid in a safe zone. They talked about wanting to make their schools a positive space for learning and socialization. They talked about being adults soon and wanting to be good citizens by getting involved in local and national discussions. Some of them said they wanted their voices heard as they were the future of the country, and they had that right.
 
Saladin4 said:
Yeah right.....Funny to see all the NRA types lashing out in fear...The students's message is powerful and they won't be silenced......Deal with it
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I am dealing with it. I am also dealing with your dishonest and inaccurate posts.
 
Goshin said:
:yt Exactly right. Maybe we should consult with them on foreign policy too.
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Because we are nailing the hell outta foreign policy as well..............................:confused:
 
PirateMk1 said:
I don't give a **** about someone else's kids, that's their problem, I do give a crap about my families and my rights being eroded. As far as I am concerned that massacre at the school is the result of arrogant parents who didn't care about their children enough to bother to teach them about basic self-defense, or if they were on the young side see to it they had a ready defence present. That is the PARENTS responsibilty. So yea my rifles and pistols and other arms ARE FAR MORE important than somebodies pimply faced 15 year old teenaged headache. The people who dance around the issue are ******s and quite frankly I cant stand them.
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Um, wow.

Yes, it's the fault of all of those parents in Newtown that they didn't teach their 7 year olds how to defend themselves in their cramped little toilet against a 21 year old with a gun while they were supposed to be making gingerbread houses 2 weeks before Christmas.

I'm sure it will comfort them to know they are at fault.
 
tres borrachos said:
My kids are home and they both participated. Feedback:

More of the students (and there were many hundreds of them) were girls rather than boys.

They walked to the athletic fields, stood as an extremely large group, and bent their heads for 17 minutes without anyone saying anything.

After the 17 minutes were over, a few of the students spoke to the group and the administration who joined the kids. The ones that spoke all support the 2A and don't wish to have hunting and shooting sports banned. They hope that the lawmakers in DC at least begin to have meaningful and relevant discussions about what happened in Parkland and Sandy Hook (which these kids also remember). They talked about fear in schools and how hard it is to be afraid in a safe zone. They talked about wanting to make their schools a positive space for learning and socialization. They talked about being adults soon and wanting to be good citizens by getting involved in local and national discussions. Some of them said they wanted their voices heard as they were the future of the country, and they had that right.
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Sounds like a really great outcome in that school.
 
tres borrachos said:
My kids are home and they both participated. Feedback:

More of the students (and there were many hundreds of them) were girls rather than boys.

They walked to the athletic fields, stood as an extremely large group, and bent their heads for 17 minutes without anyone saying anything.

After the 17 minutes were over, a few of the students spoke to the group and the administration who joined the kids. The ones that spoke all support the 2A and don't wish to have hunting and shooting sports banned. They hope that the lawmakers in DC at least begin to have meaningful and relevant discussions about what happened in Parkland and Sandy Hook (which these kids also remember). They talked about fear in schools and how hard it is to be afraid in a safe zone. They talked about wanting to make their schools a positive space for learning and socialization. They talked about being adults soon and wanting to be good citizens by getting involved in local and national discussions. Some of them said they wanted their voices heard as they were the future of the country, and they had that right.
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You should be one proud mother to have kids like that. Congratulations to all of you.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Although the catalyst is indeed horrible, it's good to see American high school kids all around the country embracing a social/political cause en-masse.
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I agree. Setting aside the issue and whatever people think about guns, we should all be proud that young people are thinking, organizing, and acting. They're amazing.
 
Saladin4 said:
Wow you must be a joy to be around during the holidays...
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I get along fabulously with small children, dogs, cats, most animals that don't want to eat me, most people that don't want to eat me, aliens that don't want to eat me, and pretty much everything else but arachnids. Arachnids hold a special place in my heart, they must die. They are pretty much the only thing that makes me scream like a little girl.
 
Fletch said:
I am dealing with it. I am also dealing with your dishonest and inaccurate posts.
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Sure you are...Have seen "Soros" yet leading the walkouts?......Isn't that what the NRA types are babbling about?.....Wait till March 24th...They'll be a Hundreds of thousands protesting against everything you stand for..........Deal with that
 
Sampson Simpson said:
And right on cue, a dumb deflecting question that does nothing to make your case. Sorry, I'm not going to bother with people who can't make their own arguments and just deflect to stupid garbage like this.

This is why there can't be any civil talk, one side has no facts, logic and reasoning and they rely on dishonest deflections like this
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Yep, because when you are asked to explain exactly what you want you have no answer.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
IF American High School students don't "know anything at all about the 2nd Amendment, THEN what does that say about American High Schools?
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It says smart people should avoid them as a place for academic education.
 
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