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Thousands of Florida students walk out of their classrooms in protest over gun [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 21, 2018 | Emily Crane

Posted on 02/21/2018 11:50:02 AM PST by C19fan

Thousands of students across Florida have walked out of their classrooms in protest over gun laws as they showed support for the teen survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting who are rallying in the state's Capitol.

Students from across the entire state participated in the mass walk out to honor the 17 people killed in the deadly massacre in Parkland a week ago.

The vast majority of teen protesters gathered on Wednesday at the scene of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High wearing the school's colors and brandishing signs.

They have vowed to make the tragedy a turning point in America's deadlocked debate on gun control.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns
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To: C19fan
In Florida, not being in public school is pretty much the same as being in public school ....

.. it's a wash.

41 posted on 02/21/2018 12:32:38 PM PST by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: C19fan

Protest what?

Inadequate security, law enforcement, FBI followthrough, metal detectors, surveillance equipment, concealed carry?

The idea that taking away guns from citizens would stop these attacks is ludicrous. There is plenty of factual evidence to support that such measures result in worse crime.

If it were possible to convince the public to repeal the second amendment or make some sort of end run around it, it would take a century to get rid of all the guns. And that would only be after a long, bloody, costly civil war (which will probably be won by advocates of the second amendment).

Those who don’t believe in citizens’ right to be armed should simply move somewhere else more to their liking.


42 posted on 02/21/2018 12:34:56 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: NutsOnYew

Not without parents blistering their backsides they wont.


43 posted on 02/21/2018 12:35:44 PM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: dmzTahoe
These ideas about age limits on buying a gun presume that individuals under 21 aren't adult enough to own an AR-15.

If that is true then they aren't adult enough for some other activities either - like voting.

How about proposing something along these lines:

You can't buy or own an AR-15, drive a car, buy booze or cigarettes, go to X-rated movies, enter a night club or vote in federal or state elections


44 posted on 02/21/2018 12:38:13 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: C19fan

Wasn’t there some demonstration like this where the high school kids walked out of school right after Trump was elected?


45 posted on 02/21/2018 12:50:10 PM PST by Mercat
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To: C19fan

All on their own volition?


46 posted on 02/21/2018 12:55:06 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: C19fan

OK. Suspend every one of the little turds and assign some heavy make-up work. Like: write out the 2nd amendment 1000 times on the blackboard after school.


47 posted on 02/21/2018 1:01:47 PM PST by jimbug
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To: Delta 21
Not without parents blistering their backsides they wont.

In this day and age, pain avoidance is greatly under appreciated which explains a lot.

48 posted on 02/21/2018 1:13:40 PM PST by NutsOnYew (If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
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To: 1Old Pro

I WAS watching the White House ‘listening” session...

The boy in the checked blue shirt repeated the LIE from CNN about the 20 year old guy who posted a pic with an AR saying he ‘bought’ it in 5 mins...

That did NOT happen. TWO year old article and FAKE NEWS. He took a picture with it and LEFT THE STORE.


49 posted on 02/21/2018 1:59:22 PM PST by GRRRRR (Make America Greater Than Ever Before!)
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To: TallahasseeConservative
He bought ten guns with no job and dead parents. The people he was staying with, didn’t know how many guns he had. Something aint right here.

This is the stuff that really hurts our side. We are by no means any less sympathetic to the horror of violence, murder and destruction by a deranged subhuman monster. Most of these incidents could have been prevented. My cynical side says that most on the left have no inclination to solves any problems or admit the real reasons.

50 posted on 02/21/2018 1:59:23 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: TallahasseeConservative

“He bought ten guns with no job and dead parents. The people he was staying with, didn’t know how many guns he had. Something aint right here.”

This.


51 posted on 02/21/2018 2:03:49 PM PST by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: bantam
"who’s coordinating all this? Not 15 to 17 yo kids...."

Could it be the ..............Russian trolls?

52 posted on 02/21/2018 2:17:09 PM PST by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: mosesdapoet

...”Let’s make a deal with these teenage geniuses...
Increase the age to buy a weapon to 21 ?
Why not increase it and the age to vote to 25 ?”...

Good ideas. They should not be able to vote until their brains are fully developed and ready to function and to understand the full consequences to their actions. Scientists now tell us that is age 25.


53 posted on 02/21/2018 2:19:07 PM PST by jazzlite (i)
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To: C19fan

It’s organized by the left. You can bet on it. Supported by people who have armed bodyguards.


54 posted on 02/21/2018 2:25:24 PM PST by I want the USA back (Free Republic keeps me from going insane in a world that has chosen insanity over reason.)
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To: I want the USA back

EVERY damned high school student I know would walk out of class ANYTIME and for ANYTHING if they thought EVERYONE else was doing it also!!! Give me a BREAK teachers today pushing this CRAP SANDWICH should be fired!!!! I HATE UNIONS!!!!


55 posted on 02/21/2018 2:37:13 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: C19fan

Plenty of useful idiots in this world.

JoMa


56 posted on 02/21/2018 3:52:26 PM PST by joma89
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To: C19fan

So glad I’ll be dead by the time the candles, crayons, and participation trophies generation is running things.


57 posted on 02/21/2018 4:03:25 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: C19fan

Instead of trying to keep kids safe they, like Cruz are taking a destructive path


58 posted on 02/21/2018 5:34:22 PM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: C19fan

The Government will protect them, except when it can’t.

Let me know when they invent Automobile Proof Crosswalks.

Run over and kill a bunch of Kids on their to or from School with your F-150 and wait for the Liberal demands to Ban F-150’s.

Oh wait...


59 posted on 02/21/2018 5:41:06 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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