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originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: Willtell
If an epidemic in your workplace was going on and multiple gun-toting madmen were going there are slaughtering co-workers damn near every week wouldn’t you respond?
Don’t you folks give a damn about your own children?
Please. That is so damned tired...let that horse rest.
This is simply adult professionals assigning students to protest as their proxies. Why do they not just protest? Close down school for the day or somethimg. But they don't do that.....they show up for work and send students away in an act of protest by proxy.
Its just stupid histrionics. And the "for the children" crap is just a disgusting appeal to emotion. All paid for by us taxpayers.
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: JAGStorm
So the kids protest, I seriously doubt that will have a big impact on current gun owners.
Not until they get older and really start to vote and participate in politics.
To me this protest is more about showing the US who the next group of politicians are going to be.
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Over 1,600 children under 15 years of age die each year
Nearly 8,000 people are killed in crashes involving drivers ages 16-20
Road crashes cost the U.S. $230.6 billion per year, or an average of $820 per person
originally posted by: DISRAELI
I don't see that the protest on its own would have any leverage. "Walkouts" are effective in factories because there are employers who want people to continue working; why should legislators care whether students are at their desks or not?
If they are thinking of the precedents of 1968, there are differences. The students of that year were acting against their college adminstrations and doing things their administrators did not want them to do. They had "sit-ins", instead of walkouts. The pressure came from the conflict. If nobody tries to stop them walking out, where's the conflict coming from?
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: Subaeruginosa
Plus if they do cause change in gun laws ( I hope not) they will be learning a most valuable lesson.
The lesson that our government works for us , and that the voice of the people has power.
I know a lot of adults today that could stand to learn that lesson.
originally posted by: Willtell
originally posted by: amazing
We have a son that want's to walk out an participate in this protest. We asked him what he was protesting. He couldn't really answer coherently so we said no way. Figure out what you're protesting and then we'll talk. LOL
Maybe he's afraid.
If you were in his shoes and your workplace was targeted then how would you respond?
The American CHILDREN population are frightened
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
Isnt this more that kids are having schools shut down by administrators?
How do they have a list of schools planning to participate? Which adults are exploiting kids?
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
Isnt this more that kids are having schools shut down by administrators?
How do they have a list of schools planning to participate? Which adults are exploiting kids?
I wonder how much of our extreme left viewed education system is driving this using the kids as a political pawn?
Protesting is one of those rights.
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: Bluntone22
Why not give them credits in their civics class?
Civics: is the study of the rights and responsibilities of being a citizen.
Protesting is one of those rights. So you could say that the children are putting a civics lesson into practice.
Civics is the study of the theoretical, political and practical aspects of citizenship, as well as its rights and duties; the duties of citizens to each other as members of a political body and to the government.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
Give them a failing grade for the day and move on.