Pro-Second Amendment students hold nationwide school walkout
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Students nationwide plan to march out of their classrooms Wednesday morning in support of the Second Amendment.
Some 400 schools are expected to participate in walkouts at 10 a.m. for 16 minutes, Will Riley, the high school senior who organized the national Stand for the Second demonstrations, told Fox News.
Riley, an 18-year-old who attends Carlsbad High School in New Mexico, thought media coverage of the school walkouts following the Parkland high school massacre “depicted a united front from my generation and for my generation” in support of more gun control.
“That’s a myth I wanted to dispel,” he said.
The Second Amendment, Riley said, is more important now than ever because of calls to repeal it, including from retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
“I think all of our constitutional rights are important, but I think the Second Amendment is somewhat special in that it’s meant to protect the others,” he said. “It’s so important right now because no one is calling to repeal the other amendments, but if you repeal one, then you set the precedent that it’s something you can do.”
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