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ABC News: Pro-Second Amendment student walkout takes place across the country
Students from nearly 300 schools across the country were expected to walk out in a different kind of protest Wednesday. Rather than calling for gun control reforms, Wednesday’s efforts were meant to show support for the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms.
Read MoreHuffPost: Students Nationwide Walk Out Of Schools To Show Support For Second Amendment Rights
“It’s not all a bunch of uneducated rednecks like the media portrays,” [Lucus] Bendzsa said. “I am a concealed carry permit holder, and I am valedictorian of my high school. … I don’t fit the media narrative. There are a ton of people like me who also don’t fit that narrative… Us millennials are not…
Read MoreThe Hill: Hundreds of students walk out of classes in support of gun rights
Hundreds of students walked out of classes across the U.S. on Wednesday to show support for gun rights.The students were participating in the “Stand for the Second,” a pro-Second Amendment demonstration held in response to the anti-gun violence walkouts at schools over the past couple months, HuffPost reported.
Read MoreVox: Pro-gun rights high school students are staging a walkout of their own
Pro-gun rights high school students are walking out of schools in 42 states Wednesday for 16 minutes in support of Second Amendment rights. The walkout, “Stand for the Second,” is a response to the March 14 National School Walkout that called for gun control policy measures while honoring the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting…
Read MoreThe Washington Times: Second Amendment school walkout delivers message with less media, no stars
They didn’t get the same wall-to-wall media coverage or celebrity plugs, but the thousands of students who walked out Wednesday for the Second Amendment demonstrated that not every teen agrees with David Hogg. Students in more than 40 states held 16-minute rallies at their schools…
Read MoreNPR: Students Held Another School Walkout, This Time For Gun Rights
More students walked out of their high schools on Wednesday, but this time they were walking out to support the right to bear arms. “Stand for the Second” was organized by Will Riley, an 18-year-old high school senior from New Mexico. “It all starts [with] myself and a few of my friends in my living…
Read MoreCNN: Pro-gun students walk out of school to ‘Stand for the Second’
Some students who support gun rights walked out of school on Wednesday in a coordinated event to “Stand for the Second.” Lane Cooper, 16, is an 11th-grade student in the Schoharie Central School District in New York, and he was one of those who walked out of class.
Read MoreLos Angeles Times: Students stage another walkout over guns — this time in favor
When tens of thousands of high school students across the country walked out of class last month to protest gun violence, many expressed relief that their voices were finally being heard. Will Riley felt like his voice was being drowned out.
Read MoreNational Review: ‘Stand for the Second’ Students Hold Nationwide Walkout in Support of Gun Rights
Students across the country are walking out of classrooms Wednesday morning to demonstrate their support for the Second Amendment. Will Riley, a New Mexico high-school student, organized the national Stand for the Second event in cooperation with the Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund.
Read MoreNY Daily News: Students walk out of classrooms nationwide to show support for Second Amendment
Hundreds of students on Wednesday walked out their classrooms in support of the Second Amendment as a direct response to a recent walkout organized by the survivors of a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., which inspired thousands to stand together in protest of gun violence.
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