Enough, Already

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Tomorrow the young ladies and gentlemen of Ludington High School (LHS) will join many other schools across the nation participating in an organized student walkout protesting gun violence.  The local newspaper reported last Wednesday, that 15 year old LHS student Graham Rivet admitted he organized the event.  

Rivet noted the national walkouts are being planned by Women's March Youth Empower (WMYE), which has called for all students, teachers, administrators, parents, and other allies to participate in the Enough! National School Walkout at 10:00 AM on March 14, a month after the Parkdale, Florida school shooting, and sustain it for 17 minutes, a minute for each student that died.  

Rivet added that "It's meant to draw attention to gun control, particularly after the shooting in Florida.  It's more about advocating for more gun regulation to stop school shootings in the future."

And, differently stated, this is what the WMYE, a subchapter of the Women's March on Washington (WMOW) notes in its FAQs concerning this protest.  They answer the question "Why are we doing this?" thusly:

"We are living in an age where young people like us do not feel safe in our schools. This issue is personal for all of us, especially for those of us who are survivors of gun violence. We are walking out for ALL people who have experienced gun violence, including systemic forms of gun violence that disproportionately impact teens in Black and Brown communities. It is important that when we refer to gun violence, we do not overlook the impact of police brutality and militarized policing, or see police in schools as a solution. We also recognize the United States has exported gun violence through imperialist foreign policy to destabilize other nations. We raise our voices for action against all these forms of gun violence."

I italicized the six times they used the phrase 'gun violence' in their rationale for the march.  All of the other safeguards us adults created that failed the students in the Parkland shooting are not being addressed overtly in the protest, but gun violence is.  It's an agenda-driven movement, which hides their ultimate goal by using the unpopular phrase 'gun violence' rather than what they believe the solution to be, the similarly unpopular 'gun control'.  

Graham Rivet condensed that focus on gun violence, when he admitted the protest was for gun control and gun regulation to make school shootings less prevalent.  That is totally consistent with the WMOW extreme liberal values which is expanded in their rationale to be inclusive of the Black Lives Matter and open borders crowds when they talk also of police brutality and exporting violence to justify their event.  

When a student protest is effectively being led by an extreme group on any side of the spectrum it is a cause to be concerned, and yet this protest is just the first of three planned with these organizers associated with fringe figures of the far left.  In the near future is  “March for Our Lives", a national march on Washington, D.C. for all interested groups, set for March 24 and another National School Walkout Day is scheduled for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the shooting at Columbine High School.  Would our media, local and national, be so supportive of student walkouts orchestrated by the extreme right as they seem to be here?

The big event doesn't seem to merit a spot on the LHS website, nor a warning sent home to the parents of high school age children.  Considering the controversial sponsors and the controversial, locally-unpopular position on the issue, one might expect some form of notification (other than a mostly unread newspaper story) to the parents of those to be involved.

It is a misuse of your First Amendment rights to rally against everybody else's inalienable Second Amendment rights; students should be taught this lesson.  Instead they are being led by their peers who have been indoctrinated by this radical group to carry out a protest against more gun violence and for more gun control.  The end result is not pretty; when citizens forfeit their rights to protect themselves and their families, the State and other lawless bullies find it much easier to take control of their lives.  This is what has happened throughout history, is what's happening in Chicago.  Gun control is loss of control for good individuals.

Encourage your student at LHS who may feel the peer pressure to conform to the gun control mob to resist.  Guns are not the enemy, those who would take away our inalienable rights are.  Fortunately, there are some counter-protests taking shape at the last minute with nobler goals of celebrating the lives that were lost:

You could make a statement by taking your LHS student to the gun range tomorrow morning, and practice their shooting, since there won't likely be anything worthwhile happening at school until the circus atmosphere clears. 

Have them tell their friends afterwards how empowering it is to know that-- outside of the dangerous school environment-- they will be able to defend themselves and others from the bad people who would cause them harm because of the right to bear arms guaranteed by the Constitution.  While they in their enlightened wisdom, wait all those long minutes for the police to arrive in order to use gun violence to save them.  It's not that complicated of an issue when you think about it, students.

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And as students and activist teachers feel more empowered to do things based on their feelings and pod-programming, those who run the school systems will soon find themselves neutered.  Look at what happened to WSCC President Dr. Kenneth Urban, he upset some professors by following his own valid direction, they organized, got help from their minion students and Urban was shortly dismissed without any good reason.  This happened to those at the top at MSU too following the Nassar trial.

In today's headlines, the teachers and students are aiming at ousting the Cedar Springs superintendent because she seems to be... doing her job.  In the article, I try to find a reason why she was so seemingly universally despised, yet I can't find a good one defined.  Superintendents and presidents are there to make tough decisions that won't please everyone, but if those decisions are made in the interest of the school/university, they shouldn't be called out as witches.