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Many schools had told the students they were ok to walk out. One principal cant speak to the entire nation, of course each district is different and each state is different but many schools around me in Indiana allowed them to walk out and allowed students to stay in class while lessons continued. Personally its my opinion, particularly with seniors, that they should be afforded their 1A rights also if a student wants to leave and a government entity tells them they must stay or face punishment to me that treads (at the very least lightly) on the ground of illegally detaining them. Regardless both sides need to come to a consensus and stop cherry picking what rights 18 year olds have. Either they're too immature to both own a gun and voice an opinion or they're mature enough to do both. In my opinion someone who mocks children speaking their mind how they decide to do it but will fight to the death for them to own firearms is just as hypocritical as someone who thinks kids should be able to leave a building and march for what they believe in but aren't mature enough to responsibly handle a firearm.
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CPT Jack Durish
You didn't read the article, did you? This was about 6th graders. Elementary school. But let's talk about 18-year olds. So, if a high school senior decides to cut class for any reason that's okay? Just exercising their rights? Can I watch when they explain that to a truant officer? Of course, truant officers are restrained when the "children" are out protesting our 2nd Amendment rights. Right?
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SPC David Willis
CPT Jack Durish - I did, and the schools I was speaking to were JR high schools so locally that encompasses 6th-8th grades. My brother in law is a teacher for one of them and he said nothing was required other than they couldn't disrupt those who chose to stay seated in class and they couldn't be violent (obviously). In fact across the district all kids stayed on school grounds and returned to class immediately after, basically the picture perfect model of peaceful demonstration. I just opened up a new line of thinking with the 18 year old. If a teen wants to cut class for any reason that's not covered under the 1A just like owning whatever weapons systems or using them however you want isn't covered under the 2A. I haven't heard of many kids wanting to organize pro 2A demonstrations, but if they did I would hope the schools would react the same way they did for the 1A.
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