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I'm a Jersey kid. I can't vote. Here's what you can do about gun violence
Newark Star-Ledger ^ | March 23, 2018 | Zachery Dougherty

Posted on 03/24/2018 6:11:01 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

Kids are typically expected to take a back seat when it comes to national politics and policy, but with what's going on right now that cannot happen any longer. I'm 16 years old, I'm a junior high school student, I cannot vote. That does not mean I can't do anything. It's time for students, everywhere, across the country, whether you're in a blue state or red state, to get involved, to speak up in your own local communities. It's time that students have this conversation at the dinner table with their parents and let them know that enough is enough!

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: adult; ar15; exploitation; guncontrol; guns; pressure; teachers; zotbait
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To: glenduh

Shut up,kid.

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61 posted on 03/24/2018 7:44:15 PM PDT by Mears
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Hey kid! Shaddup and eat your peas!


62 posted on 03/24/2018 7:53:15 PM PDT by Terry L Smith (.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Not meaning to go all Godwin on you but every totalitarian regime of the 20th century included a youth movement component. Leftists always have room for some teen-aged useful idiot.


63 posted on 03/24/2018 7:55:58 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: goldstategop; funfan
On my little half mile section of country road there are scores, if not hundreds of guns and most people I know carry.

No one has ever been shot, at least in my lifetime.

I'm not about to take advice regarding my God given Constitutional rights from a child that can't figure out whether they're a boy or a girl.

64 posted on 03/24/2018 8:41:11 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
It's time that students have this conversation at the dinner table with their parents ...

Eat your peas!

65 posted on 03/24/2018 9:03:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

>> I’m 16 years old, I’m a junior high school student

Isn’t junior high 7th and 8th grade? Possibly including 9th grade?

I was 15 when I began my junior YEAR of high school (11th grade).

Then again the Floriduh shooter and at least one of the protesters were 19 year old students at that school and with a much class time as Kamera Hogg has been missing, he’s on track to being in school there until he’s 19 as well.


66 posted on 03/24/2018 11:28:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: crusher2013

>>Far more kids are killed by driving and texting. Maybe we should raise the driving age to 21 and not allow kids to have cell phones. That should be the dinner conversation that occurs.

They are too busy sexting photos and eating Tide Pods to have THAT discussion.


67 posted on 03/24/2018 11:29:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: cherry
>>pray...


68 posted on 03/24/2018 11:30:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I graduated HS at 17. Was 13 and 14 in Jr. HS.

Why is this boy in Jr. HS at 16?

It’s amazing to me to read so many crime stories that include people 19-21 y/o that are still in HS.


69 posted on 03/25/2018 2:27:51 AM PDT by octex
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Yeah kid - when I was 16, I was stupid too - not as stupid as you but stupid enough - it goes with the developing hormones when one decides whether to become a man or a snowflake....


70 posted on 03/25/2018 3:46:53 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: octex
I graduated from High School at 17, also. Registered for the draft in college.

If he doesn't understand the difference between "Junior High School" and "High School Junior" we're supposed to take his opinion about law and national policy seriously?

71 posted on 03/25/2018 4:34:24 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

First fill that empty head with education, something you are not getting from your school. Snowflakes with life experience, funny! mommy is still wiping your a## and daddy is letting you live in his house


72 posted on 03/25/2018 4:48:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

OK, Mr. 16 Year Old Know-It-All, answer me this: How many of the school shooters have been NRA members?

(crickets)


73 posted on 03/25/2018 9:57:12 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: octex
I graduated HS at 17. Was 13 and 14 in Jr. HS.

Me too. There was no such thing as Jr. High in our schools; K-8, 9-12. I turned 18 while away at basic training.

74 posted on 03/25/2018 10:00:30 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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