Look At Your Amazing Babies, America, Part Two: Electric Gun Control Boogaloo
Student protesting at Idaho Capitol building (photo by Anne Helen Petersen )
It's just all #Walkout, all day here at Yr Wonkette. We are so proud of all these terrific kids! Also, we're not crying, YOU'RE crying:
And now it's on to a bunch more pics and tweets, because really, you don't need too much commentary getting in the way. LOOK AT YOUR BEAUTIFUL KIDS!
— Emma Roller (@emmaroller) March 14, 2018
This 2nd-grader just really wanted to have his say, so he went and joined the high school kids:
Leonardo Aguilar was the only one to walk out of his second grade classroom so he joined the highschoolers at Lincoln High in San Jose. @CBSSF #walkout pic.twitter.com/v9SQAAEn4f
— Len Ramirez (@lenramirez) March 14, 2018
Justin in North Carolina was the only one to walk out of his school. He worried that maybe six people might see his post on Twitter. Bit more than that!
Wow I’m literally the only one #NationalSchoolWalkout pic.twitter.com/2F95qY2vTI
— Justin Blackman (@JustinIBlackman) March 14, 2018
"Ben" worried that maybe some kids were being forced to be pawns in others' games, like those two brave kids above who walked out all by themselves, obviously because of peer pressure:
"Gerry," a correspondent for Reuters, thinks "Ben" is a bit of a pillock:
dozens, my goodness https: //t.co/LElvev2fkX
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) March 14, 2018
There were other brilliant reactions to certain people's attempts to trivialize the walkouts, too:
Georgia:
DeKalb County School students joins nationwide walkout day! The children are our future! #guncontrol #nationalwalkoutday pic.twitter.com/T8sWfOr43S
— The Eberhart Foundation (@eberhartfounda1) March 14, 2018
Maryland:
Students from Albert Einstein High School in Montgomery County, Maryland walk out after first period today @moco4guncontrol pic.twitter.com/asnMD0g7lC
— Brooke Saias (@brookesaias) March 14, 2018
Hawaii:
Happening now, Kalaheo High School students walk out of classrooms in protest. #nationalschoolwalkout #enough pic.twitter.com/pBHcGwoZZc
— Maleko McDonnell (@KITVMaleko) March 14, 2018
You didn't even really have to be in school to walk out:
17 minutes for 17 students. She hasn’t had school all week but she still wanted to walk out. She actually taped this sign to our front door last night. It’s become a sort of slogan for her. #stopgunviolence #guncontrolnow #momsdemandaction #kidsdemandaction #studentwalkout pic.twitter.com/DkTUTGugLB
— Mambo Moondog (@mambomoondog) March 14, 2018
OK, Mr. Shapiro, we think maybe we found a participant who may not have been entirely there of their own volition. But they have a pretty good scribble!
If you can walk, walk out of preschool! pic.twitter.com/hOTHCg4FJa
— ? (@dynamoe) March 14, 2018
Looks like a fine little radical to us all the same. And it is now your OPEN THREAD.
[Top image courtesy of Buzzfeed's Anne Helen Petersen Check out her whole Boise thread! Yes, again.]
Very reassuring, innit!?
This is true ... it is a stereotype. Although, we Americans get a bad rap that is now becoming true ...