"No they're not! None of them has died!" - NRA response

Kid suspended for not participating in walk out -- HokieDan95 03/16/2018 2:24PM

Read the article. He was suspended for refusing to go to the school -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 4:17PM

The event should have been held on the weekend. No disruption to classes, -- Hoo05Dave 03/16/2018 5:13PM

This angle always amuses me -- Beerman 03/16/2018 6:12PM

My son's high school had an organized -- Lupos 03/16/2018 6:34PM

That's how you read that post? I'm pretty sure his point was that if you do -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 6:23PM

Yeah, that was an odd response. I'll chalk it up to cut-&-paste from other -- Hoo05Dave 03/16/2018 8:53PM

But the disruption is half the point -- Beerman 03/16/2018 7:12PM

....with the help of the administration ** -- HokieDan95 03/17/2018 11:49AM

How does the walkout "annoy the powers that be"? The disruption is to fello -- Hoo05Dave 03/16/2018 8:49PM

The tactic has historical precedent and does get the attention............. -- Chuck Taylor 03/17/2018 09:00AM

Those walk outs draw attention because they affect the wider public. You -- Hoo05Dave 03/17/2018 09:49AM

We are in disagreement then. -- Chuck Taylor 03/17/2018 11:29AM

I am sure the tptb are a shaking in their boots.** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 7:36PM

Meh. The one month anniversary of the shooting occurred this Wednesday, -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 5:20PM

Your work organized a walk out? -- hoothat 03/16/2018 7:37PM

No, we we didn't pat ourselves on the back. We just took a little time -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 9:22PM

I'm sure that 17 minutes really took a lot of you. -- hoothat 03/16/2018 9:33PM

You really come across as a pos sometimes -- 111Balz 03/17/2018 1:22PM

Sorry, I call it what it is ** -- hoothat 03/17/2018 2:06PM

LOL. No, that is not even close to what you do ** -- 111Balz 03/18/2018 8:22PM

I truly feel sorry for you. Hope you -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 9:50PM

Wish the same for you. ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 9:59PM

I’m not without my faults, but I’m not -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 10:10PM

And off we go. ** -- Hokieesith 03/16/2018 10:22PM

I mocked you for acting like a walkout -- hoothat 03/16/2018 10:18PM

It's sort of like the #bringbackourgirls -- TomKazanski 03/17/2018 01:02AM

I didn’t act like it accomplished anything. I explained -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 10:43PM

By walking out? Whatever man. -- hoothat 03/17/2018 01:16AM

Delete** -- BocaHoo91 03/17/2018 01:23AM

I don't have a problem with it, and didn't realize it was one month from -- Hoo05Dave 03/16/2018 5:33PM

Protest rarely have the full support of -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 6:02PM

Yes my question now is why is this even a story? ** -- HokieDan95 03/16/2018 4:20PM

Because snowflake right-wingers made it a story... ** -- Hokie5150 03/16/2018 4:22PM

Msn and ap? ** -- HokieDan95 03/16/2018 4:28PM

Damn, Dude. You are on a roll late. ** -- Shenhoo 03/16/2018 4:26PM

Our Hokie brethren love to post the -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 4:20PM

Whole walkout thing is funny. Sheep, the lot of 'em. -- hoothat 03/16/2018 3:54PM

Wu Tang is for the children... ** -- southdenverhoo 03/17/2018 03:45AM

I believe the children are our future -- 111Balz 03/16/2018 7:31PM

Now I can't get that song out of my head. Linda Creed was awesome. ** -- JSHoo 03/16/2018 9:11PM

...You are far, far older than i am. -- hoothat 03/16/2018 7:34PM

Leave my semi automatic killing machine alone!!! -- hooshouse 03/16/2018 4:17PM

It is... -- hoothat 03/16/2018 4:29PM

Because they could be used by an animate one to kill me? Come on, I agree -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 4:35PM

Let's not pretend, either, that disarming otherwise law-abiding citizens -- Hokie5150 03/16/2018 4:47PM

Except when it does... -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 5:03PM

Name one other country that has eliminated more than 350 million guns... ** -- Hokie5150 03/16/2018 5:19PM

Well considering we have more guns than the rest of the world combined, -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 5:22PM

I'm arguing you aren't going to make a dent in the number of guns in this -- Hokie5150 03/16/2018 5:40PM

I certainly never pretended that. Quite the contrary. I could take the gun -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 5:03PM

Oh lord the NRA would never allow -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 5:16PM

Are you suggesting thay are well informed? ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 8:38PM

Oh yes, the all powerful NRA boogeyman with their alleged 5M members and -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 5:29PM

You say the NRA is not powerful yet when push -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 5:53PM

Or maybe it's because Pols realize a ban without meaningful enforcement is -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 6:19PM

I have said nothing about banning guns. -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 6:27PM

Ok but I started this by saying it's hard to take the gun ban crowd -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 6:36PM

Right I was off base somewhat but we -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 6:39PM

It isn't a normal reaction. ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 4:41PM

Most of the kids I've talked to seem to be pretty -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 4:16PM

Lol -- hoothat 03/16/2018 4:27PM

Like I said, they're kids that seem infinitely more thoughtful -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 4:35PM

I think you mean more emotional. And that’s okay. ** -- Hokieesith 03/16/2018 5:07PM

No more emotional than the cult of Trump.** -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 6:05PM

...so you're pointing out they are both irrational? ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 7:25PM

...or they swallowed the same BS as yourself. ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 4:42PM

Says the guy who truly believes an AR 15 is a weapon of mass -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 4:45PM

Yep...I clearly never said that. ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 4:54PM

"AR-15's are not designed to kill, but wound" -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 4:58PM

It was designed to kill small game -- hoothat 03/16/2018 5:07PM

Everything I've ever seen indicated the 5.56 was developed for military use -- Tafkam Hokie 03/16/2018 7:43PM

The 5.56 is known as a wounding round. ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 8:43PM

Good lord. Let me guess. You learned that on -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 5:08PM

I served in two wars boca... -- hoothat 03/16/2018 5:21PM

You've said before you flew cargo planes for the Air Force. -- WahooRQ 03/16/2018 6:11PM

I have never once said I flew cargo planes in the USAF -- hoothat 03/16/2018 6:20PM

What did you fly? ** -- KCHoo 03/16/2018 8:13PM

I worked on intel/surviellance aircraft -- hoothat 03/16/2018 8:20PM

Yeah — so when you go around claiming to be a combat vet who is a hands -- WahooRQ 03/16/2018 8:49PM

Lol...I worked CAS...you have no idea what I have seen/dealt with -- hoothat 03/16/2018 8:58PM

Its pretty obvious you’re FOS. ** -- WahooRQ 03/16/2018 9:03PM

Yeah, I made up the PTSD as well. Get fucked. ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 9:04PM

Well that settles it for me. -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 5:23PM

I loled before I saw your edit. -- hoothat 03/16/2018 5:42PM

It’s ”scarier” to me than a bolt action -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 9:17PM

Chapman used a bolt action rifle, Boca -- hoothat 03/16/2018 9:30PM

Chapman? ** -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 11:53PM

Lol ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 5:25PM

I couldn’t agree more ** -- BocaHoo91 03/16/2018 5:28PM

Disregard** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 5:34PM

In their defense, they’re the ones dying -- fphoo 03/16/2018 4:32PM

There is no epidemic of school shootings. Students are more likely to -- Hokie5150 03/17/2018 08:35AM

"No they're not! None of them has died!" - NRA response ** -- Freddyburg Hokie 03/16/2018 4:40PM

Are you actually being serious? -- hoothat 03/16/2018 4:40PM

I learned a lot about you from the post. Color me unimpressed. ** -- fphoo 03/16/2018 5:16PM

As I did of yours. Thank you. ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 5:22PM

So kids cannot protest? Got it. ** -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 4:01PM

Kids are too young to have fully formed their thoughts on this. -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 4:25PM

If schools block pro 2nd amendment walk -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 4:27PM

How about a Right to Life March? I'm not wasting my time looking but I -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 4:31PM

Well you know if it happens someone’ -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 4:35PM

Probably a triggered lefty "outraged" about it being planned in defiance of -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 4:38PM

Not during school hours they can’t. Or shouldn’t. I wonder what the -- JMHoo 03/16/2018 4:07PM

A pro-life walkout would be a fun one to watch. ** -- Hokie5150 03/16/2018 4:34PM

Much of the media would have demonized the kids (and their parents) ** -- Tuckahokie 03/16/2018 4:37PM

My thoughts exactly ** -- HokieDan95 03/16/2018 4:16PM

It would have been interesting to see what the turn out would have been if -- Hokie5150 03/16/2018 4:14PM

Some kids came out to protest after snow closed their school. ** -- hooshouse 03/16/2018 4:16PM

Oh christ - what is it with the gop cronies and -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 4:10PM

You don’t think school administrators get to “ set the proper means for -- JMHoo 03/16/2018 4:15PM

Then suspend them all, the kids -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 4:22PM

Lol, did they? -- hoothat 03/16/2018 4:33PM

"Do you guys have a permit?" ** -- hooshouse 03/16/2018 4:14PM

I said that? Weird. Doesn't say that in my post. ** -- hoothat 03/16/2018 4:03PM

The implied criticism of the word sheep ** -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 4:04PM

Calling them sheep doesn't mean they can't protest... -- hoothat 03/16/2018 4:21PM

Well, get your own arse shaved bald and left in a field naked and then tell -- Hoodafan 03/16/2018 4:28PM

PMSNBC was the walkout network yesterday...an interruption to the collusion -- Tuckahokie 03/16/2018 3:59PM

I'm not buying it. -- Hokie5150 03/16/2018 2:48PM

Here's an article that explains that further -- Stimp 03/16/2018 3:11PM

Someone want to cut/paste so people don't have to register? -- Freddyburg Hokie 03/16/2018 3:25PM

I hope, if not a faculty member should be punished ** -- HokieDan95 03/16/2018 2:56PM

See edited response above. The article you linked explained what happened. ** -- Hokie5150 03/16/2018 2:58PM

Not the first your beloved Hokie brethren -- walkthecorner 03/16/2018 3:14PM

"No they're not! None of them has died!" - NRA response

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