How A Talk With High Schoolers Revealed The Truth About Kids And Guns

By Tom Knighton

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Ever since Parkland, the media has inundated us with stories about how high school students are mobilizing to fight for gun control. They’ve presented a picture that students in schools are overwhelmingly in favor of gun control and are tripping over themselves to battle the Second Amendment.

The problem is, I spoke with a group of high school seniors on Wednesday. In particular, I was asked to come and talk to them about the Second Amendment.

Allow me to set the stage for you. Let’s look at our perceptions and how a school in Albany, Georgia plays into it.

If you looked down the school’s halls, you might wonder how the school system gets away with segregation. It doesn’t, but it seems that way. Something like 90 percent of the student body is African-American (not an official number, just a guestimate based on my experience). A number of others are Hispanic. Whites account for less than one percent.

My son is one of those.

Now, minorities are a core demographic for Democrats, a political party that typically supports gun control. I figured there was a high likelihood I was walking into a situation where most of the students were in support of gun …Read the Rest

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