Student Walk-Outs

[steelap]

So students are walking out of classes for gun control today (or at least as an excuse to skip class).

If they are willing to accept the appropriate consequences for their actions - more power to them. It's part of the maturation process.

If they are unwilling to take responsibility for their actions - to hell with them and their opinions.

I do not feel that being a "victim" grants additional wisdom or credibility; it grants no entitlement; and their voices should be listened to only to the same extent that their voices would have deserved had they not been a "victim".

if these students are not mature enough to vote, bear arms, or take on other adult responsibilities, what makes them mature enough to pronounce on national policy of any type? Emotion is not reason.

[togor]

Telling teenagers to shut up always works like a charm. Best strategy is to just let them say their piece (or "there peace" for leftyo) and not get bogged down in a debate over whether their taking a stand on this particular issue is justified or not. Everyone gets an opinion, and chances are they'll be on to something else entirely next month anyways.

[Roadkingtrax]

No one has to like it, but the kids will get the press today.

[clintonhater]

If they are willing to accept the appropriate consequences for their actions - more power to them. It's part of the maturation process.

What consequences??? Their gun-hating teachers & principals are cheering them on!

Emotion is not reason.

Sure it is--in a mobocracy. Clear reasoning vs chanting, screaming & sign waving? No contest.

[Allen]

In my area the students taking guns to school are the problem in the first place. Also, (in my area) the schools have reported that any student leaving the classrooms to protest would be suspended. Instead, they will allowed a brief moment of silence to remember the slain students of the past.

Students will protest anything to get out of going to class. I'll bet most all of them go home in the evenings to a home with guns and would really raise hell if someone tried to take them away.

Our constitution provides that we have a right to own guns. It is not a requirement to own them.

[clintonhater]

I'll bet most all of them go home in the evenings to a home with guns and would really raise hell if someone tried to take them away.

You're living in a fantasy world. Maybe that's the way it is in small town schools in Montana or Arkansas, but if there's more than one kid in a hundred who thinks that way in a typical upper middle class suburban school like Parkland, it would be amazing. And that one in a hundred would have to be careful to keep his mouth shut or face retaliation from classmates.

[JOHN COOK]

clintonhater, I think you should read Allen's Post again. I think you got the wrong msg. I think he was speaking about the home owner raising hell. It wasn't quite clear but thats what I interpreted... "to a home with guns" is the key word......

john

[clintonhater]

clintonhater, I think you should read Allen's Post again. I think you got the wrong msg. I think he was speaking about the home owner raising hell. It wasn't quite clear but thats what I interpreted... "to a home with guns" is the key word......

john

Sorry if I misunderstood. Probably my hatred of the US public school system, and the hard-core liberals who run it, blurred my vision.

[Allen]

That IS what I meant and I wasn't very clear perhaps---just trying to keep the comments as short as possible.

[blackhawknj]

I find the whole thing very contrived, and choreographed. When was the last time you saw them protesting about drugs, underage drinking and DUI-testing while driving. I have read that 12 teens die everyday from texting while driving, where's the outrage over that ?

[Roadkingtrax]

Texting while driving is a clear and present danger to everyone.

[RED]

In my area the students taking guns to school are the problem in the first place.

When I went to school, a lot of the students took guns to school. I used to take my 12 ga. Mod 37 to school broken down into it's 3 parts strapped to the handlebars of my bicycle. I would leave it at the Principal's office so nobody would mess with it. On, Thursdays, the principal would stick the bike in his truck (his shotgun was in the back window of the truck). We would go to a old grown over farm and walk up a covey of quail and a cottontail or two.

In both the student parking lot as well as the teacher's lot, guns were openly displayed in racks in the rear window. No one was ever shot, or murdered in any school... the guns don't kill people it... is the twisted haters and burners that do that.

[JB White]

That IS what I meant and I wasn't very clear perhaps---just trying to keep the comments as short as possible.

Some people need to see a picture. Next time, have your Crayola's ready.

[ray55classic]

Funny how the little puddknockers fail to acknowledge their own bullying and making fun of the kid that's ''different'' is what finally drove him over the edge.

[free1954]

Funny how the little puddknockers fail to acknowledge their own bullying and making fun of the kid that's ''different'' is what finally drove him over the edge.

indeed. good reply. when I was in school we got to fight it out with kids who picked on you. and then you either became friends or they learned to leave you alone.