The Daily Wire: EXCLUSIVE: ‘Stand For The Second’ School Organizer Will Riley
The mainstream media gave a massive spotlight to the anti-gun March For Our Lives, which featured many of the student survivors of the recent shooting in Parkland, Florida. However, there is a group of students planning the Stand for the Second walkout, orchestrated to support the Bill of Rights on May 2nd of this year. I spoke with the organizer, a high school senior in New Mexico named Will Riley, about the planned event, its message, and the reaction from his school, the media, and his peers.
Bannon Patch: Beaumont Students Plan Walkout For 2nd Amendment Rights
A nationwide student walkout is happening all across the country on Wednesday — but this time it isn't to protest gun violence and push for new laws, it's in support of second amendment rights. Students planned to walk out of school at 10 a.m. as part of the event, titled "Stand for the Second." They planned to return to class 16 minutes later. In Riverside County, two walkouts were planned — in Beaumont and in Hemet. In nearby Redlands, two walkouts were planned.
O’Fallon Patch: Students Stage Pro-Gun Walkouts At Two Missouri High Schools
Students at two high schools in Missouri planned to walk out of class at 10 a.m. this morning over guns. Unlike past walkouts, however, these students are demonstrating in support of gun rights and the Second Amendment. The event was organized by Will Riley, a high school senior from Carlsbad, New Mexico. The event is being organized by Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, and according to their website, students at hundreds of high schools across the country have RSVP'd to participate.
KOIN Portland: Tigard HS takes part in ‘Stand for the Second’
Students at Tigard High School, along with several other schools, walked out of class Wednesday morning in support of the national Stand for the Second walkout. Stand for the Second is a "student-led, student-driven movement" at high schools across the country to support gun rights. At 9:55 a.m., up to 100 students gathered outside of the school with a few students carrying flags across the parking lot. They stayed outside for 16 minutes.
Education Week: Students Plan New Walkout in Support of Gun Rights
A New Mexico high school senior says students at some 300 schools plan a counter-protest to recent student walkouts across the country, this time supporting gun rights and the Second Amendment. Carlsbad High School senior Will Riley said grieving teens have been exploited by gun-control interests and that a platform is needed for students on the other side of the debate.
The Mercury News: Bay Area students join nationwide pro-gun walkout
Students from at least one Bay Area high school took part in a nationwide walkout Wednesday dubbed “Stand for the Second,” an effort “to protect our natural rights that are enshrined in the constitution.” About 50 students walked out of class at California High School in San Ramon around 10 a.m., spokeswoman Elizabeth Graswich of the San Ramon Unified School District said. They held signs, made a couple of speeches and returned to class after about 15 minutes, she said.
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.
HuffPost: 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 cookie cutters,” he continued. “We are all unique and different with our own ideas.”
The 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.
MTPR: Columbia Falls Students Plan ‘Stand For The Second’ Walkout Wednesday
A month-and-a-half after students nationwide walked out of class to advocate for safer schools, some students in Columbia Falls plan to walk out of class Wednesday in support of the Second Amendment. "This walkout is necessary because the students who didn't walk out on March 14 because they support gun rights deserve to have their own walkout voicing their opinions and what they believe in," says Braxton Shewalter, the organizer of the walkout.