Students Don’t Just Want To Protest Guns, They Wants Schools To Approve

By Tom Knighton

One of the criticisms of the anti-Second Amendment student walkouts last month was the knowledge that, prior to then, few other issues would have gotten the administrations’ support like those walkouts did.

However, not every school out there is taking a political position on the topic of guns. This is a good thing, especially for public schools that survive off taxpayer dollars.

Maureen Downey of The Atlanta Journal disagrees, however.

The University of Georgia, Georgia Tech and Georgia State University pursue top students like Mallory Harris, Thomas Moore and Marisa Pyle because they expect them to tackle the hard problems and make the world a better place.

And these three students, all of whom attend UGA, are taking on a challenge their elders haven’t been able to solve — the gun violence that makes America vulnerable to school shootings like the deadly one in Parkland, Fla.

(Firearm-related deaths are the third leading cause of death among U.S. children aged 1 to 17 years.)

So far, neither the UGA students nor like-minded peers at Tech or GSU have gotten even a crumb of official support for their efforts from their campuses or the Board of Regents.

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