Are these child activists just puppets for the anti-gun lobby?

Considering that most of the leadership are high school students, many of them juniors or seniors and some either old enough to vote or will vote in the next Presidential election, I think calling them "child activists" is an ad homineum comment. In the same vein so is "anti-gun." Argue in a dignified manner and not like middle school students - who, by the way, are not children either.

The NRA grades the congress members purely on how they vote for NRA ideas. Look at the web site. These kids are doing what others have done before, I wish they had risen at Columbine. We are a nation of rebels and it is time to rebel again. The NRA formed to teach marksmanship, not open carry. Last month I went to my old military prep school's alumni week end. I'm a member of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association. At the the beginning of the corps parade I saw a fairly young alum with a holstered auto pistol. Why was he carrying? BTW, I am not a member of the "anti-gun lobby." I consider that a ill advised insult. I don't want people who should not carry guns to carry weapons that are far more dangerous now than a hundred years ago,

Thereis no way they could be anything but! Kids don’t have a world audience.

Hi, I dont think they start out that way.but I dont doubt they are used as such. We who serve know what a weapon like an m4 can do in skilled hands. I shudder to think of it the hands of the untrained undisciplined civilian. I wouldnt give a child a chainsaw. And I think that weapons should reflect that. I would haye us to ignore them and see a future undermining of this essential birthright

Well, no, Jim, it doesn't. First of all, these aren't children, they are adolescents, and well able to think for themselves. And they weren't given money to by outsiders to adopt a point of view, like members of Congress. The student protesters were organized first, then received funding, exactly opposite of the way our legislators operate.

I agree 100% with Captain Jack!! Children are very easily led and brainwashed by the puppeteers!!

I have several issues with the movement. 1). Why aren't these kid's in their respective school's continuing their education ?
2). If teacher's are telling them to miss classroom criteria that involves their education. (Fire the teacher) they dont get a pay check for promoting a movement of any kind .
3). Parents who allowed their child to join in this non school sponsored event should be held legally accountable !
4). 98% of these kids haven't a clue about what it is they're protesting at all.
Yes there's outsider involvement ie; security, lodging, meals, transportation . Democratic party, George Soros, the Clinton foundation and the list can go endless. They can rebuttal with it's their freedom of speech and right to march, but they dont seem to recall who has given them these rights . All of us who have served our country and those brave men and women of our armed forces both abroad as well as at home currently serving on active duty !!
Just like us they now stand guard at all hour's of the day and night to ensure they are afforded the to an education and the ability to become productive citizen's. So someone in each of their respective families, will need to perform the delicate procedure of removing their cranial cavity from their rectal location !

Yup!

Of course they are, they're a product of our liberally controlled public school system which teaches our children WHAT to think instead of HOW to think. From there they go to colleges and universities which are mostly run by liberals as well so when they graduate we're stuck with whining, I'm entitled, crybabies who are in no way ready to deal with the real world.

That is a great question. To call them 'activists' I think is misleading (although that is what the anti-gun lobby calls them) in that they rally once or twice and then get on with their exams. I can understand their knee-jerk reaction to the mass shooting as they are children and children by and large are not equipped mentally to process major issues for the long term. This is not a criticism of them, just how they are. So I think many of them were sincere in the moment without having to think things through. Having said that, I also think that the anti-gun lobby (politicians, lobbyists and adults) hijacked the walk-outs towards their own political ends.