The Mixed Signals Sent Out By The Student Walkout

By Tom Knighton

Yesterday, a whole pile of kids got up and walked out of school. Why?

It seems there were a lot of mixed signals floating around. For some, it was about remembering the Parkland students and teachers killed a month ago. For others, it was about squashing our Second Amendment rights. And that’s the problem.

For example, NRA TV’s Cam Edwards reports varying descriptions of what his own children were told.

My middle schooler daughter said their walkout was a memorial for the students in Parkland.

My high schooler son said his teacher directed his class outside, where the principal invoked his youth in the 60’s and talked about the power of protest to change laws. https://t.co/A5n4DbafMc

— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) March 15, 2018

The tweet he was responding to was regarding a story at The Federalist where it seems a number of parents were being told the walkout for gun control was really a memorial for those killed at Parkland.

My local television station also reported it as a memorial for the Parkland slain.

Nearly a month after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, students across the country walked out in protest for National …Read the Rest

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