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Students storm out of Colorado school shooting vigil in protest of politicians
New York Post ^ | 5/9/19 | Ben Feuerherd

Posted on 05/09/2019 1:10:51 AM PDT by Kartographer

Survivors of a Colorado school shooting walked out of vigil for their slain classmate on Wednesday night in protest of politicians and other groups using it as a platform for gun control, a local report said.

The students from STEM High School, where two gunman killed a student and wounded eight others on Tuesday, began yelling from the stands that they “wanted to be heard” after two politicians and pro-gun control advocates addressed the crowd, according to the local NBC affiliate, KUSA.

They then stormed out of the vigil after Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Democratic Congressman Jason Crow addressed the crowd, The Denver Post reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: democrats; jasoncrow; kendrick; michaelbennet; schoolshooting
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To: Jarhead9297

Did you even read the snippet, let alone the article?

Here’s a hint: They were protesting the POLITICIANS trying to turn a memorial for their fellow student into a GUN-GRABBER’S diatribe.


21 posted on 05/09/2019 3:08:18 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: PigRigger

I seriously doubt Highland Ranch votes for Rats. I have family that lives there.


22 posted on 05/09/2019 3:20:00 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Ann Archy

This is a STEM school, where the kids are all smarter than average.


23 posted on 05/09/2019 3:32:35 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Kartographer

What a breath of fresh air.


24 posted on 05/09/2019 3:34:34 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Ann Archy
Seriously?? The KIDS KNOW it was Mental Health?? WOW!! Good for them!

Actually, it was mental illness. But good for the students.

25 posted on 05/09/2019 3:37:34 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Kartographer

The students didn’t like a memorial event being politicized, and recognized mental health being a real issue here, which the Dem pols they walked out on almost certainly didn’t talk about.

There was one gay perp and one perp “transitioning” female to male - so a biological female (XX) pumped full of testosterone. No one on the Left can admit there might have been any mental health issues involved.


26 posted on 05/09/2019 3:38:38 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kartographer

GUN CONTROL *KILLS*

Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet HURTS CHILDREN

Democratic Congressman Jason Crow HURTS CHILDREN

Okay STEM kids, just repeat those former words.
Repeat repeat repeat chant repeat repeat.


27 posted on 05/09/2019 3:38:41 AM PDT by TheNext (Democrats kill people with Gun Control)
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To: Kartographer

The endless anti-gun political psyops are getting old and worn out.


28 posted on 05/09/2019 3:39:31 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Wilhelm Tell
I don’t know why the leftists have had so much traction with gun control.

Emotions/Feelings.

After any tragedy, Leftists always appeal to the so called "heart strings".

Arguments of "if only we'd had _______ in place, this wouldn't have happened."

This resonates with a lot of soccer moms.

Arguments like schools should be safe spaces are advanced as well.

What is not talked about is Senator Plugs Biden is the one who introduced and advocated for legislation turning our schools into the targets they are today.

Introduced in the Senate as S.3266 by Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-DE) on October 27, 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Free_School_Zones_Act_of_1990

29 posted on 05/09/2019 3:40:50 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Kartographer

Just saw this event was organised by the Brady Campaign.


30 posted on 05/09/2019 3:42:34 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: Kartographer

When the next school generation revolts against ‘the establishment’ and ‘the man’, it’ll be against Democrats and progressives.

What will be more revolutionary at 18 than being a wall-backing, gun-shooting, logical-thinking, heterosexual Christian?


31 posted on 05/09/2019 3:44:23 AM PDT by polymuser (Hi It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: TheNext

STEM kids, do not walk out.

Chant loudly. Repeat often, repeat loudly.

- - - - -

GUN CONTROL *KILLS*

Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet HURTS CHILDREN

Democratic Congressman Jason Crow HURTS CHILDREN


32 posted on 05/09/2019 3:45:05 AM PDT by TheNext (Democrats kill people with Gun Control)
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To: Kartographer

GOOD!!!!

Gives me hope for this country.


33 posted on 05/09/2019 3:45:05 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Don W

I don’t care what they were protesting for. I don’t care if it’s for a right or left leaning cause. Kids should be in school learning Science, Math, History and English. They’ve turned schools into Social Justice Warrior clinics. We wonder why schools globally do better academically than ours? Here’s your sign.

I’ll restate my original. These kids didn’t give a damn about the cause. The first thing in their mind was a day out of classes. You’re naive to think otherwise


34 posted on 05/09/2019 3:47:26 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: Don W

They don’t call them jarheads for nothing. The name wasn’t picked out of a hat. The name Jarhead was EARNED!


35 posted on 05/09/2019 3:50:15 AM PDT by Ikeon (There is nothing funny about stupid people. They are the opposite of funny, they are dangerous.)
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To: Kartographer

People are really sick and tired of these blood dancing ghouls materializing mere moments after these events for political gain.


36 posted on 05/09/2019 3:50:19 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Jarhead9297
These kids don’t have the faintest clue about why they are protesting.

On the contrary, they knew exactly what they were protesting and why and expressed it.

If you read the article, you'd have seen that. They understood that their friends death was being used as a political statement to enact more gun control when they were at a vigil for grieving over the kid's death.

They then stormed out of the vigil after Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Democratic Congressman Jason Crow addressed the crowd, The Denver Post reported.

The kids chanted “mental health” and hurled expletives at the media, according to the report.

The students returned, and some of them took the microphone, saying their grief being used for political purposes.

“What has happened at STEM is awful. But it’s not a statistic. We can’t be used as a reason for gun control. We are people not a statement,” one student said, according to video by KUSA.

“We wanted Kendrick to be mourned. We wanted all of you to join us in that mourning, but that was not allowed here. We all walked out. We were not kicked out,” another student added.

These kids are learning good lessons in politics and are hopefully being made into adamant conservatives as they see the disgusting behavior and opportunism of the democrats.

I, for one, am glad for what they did and said. The left needs to be called on their exploitation of tragedy to further their agenda of destroying this country.

37 posted on 05/09/2019 3:53:27 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Kartographer

Wow! I admit I am astonished. I saw this, and immediately assumed the students walked out to protest lack of gun control.

Amazing.


38 posted on 05/09/2019 3:55:15 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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Not all intelligent discourse. Read the bottom paragraphs in the Denver Post article.

Kaylee Tyner is a 17 year old pretty blond who is a senior at Columbine High School. She spoke at the church service but she is the spokesperson for a gun grabbin' libtard program of indoctrinating the youth of America called MyLastShot. A gruesome program where people pledge to publicize their pics if they are killed in a mass shooting.

"With her #MyLastShot campaign, Kaylee Tyner wants students to pledge to publicize photos of their bodies if they die in a mass shooting"

https://people.com/crime/my-last-shot-kaylee-tyner-columbine-campaign/

Of course it's a gimmick. You are far more likely to be struck by lightening or slip in the bathtub then die in a mass shooting, but it makes headlines for the "gun violence" agenda.

We need to be ever vigilant because they will never stop.

39 posted on 05/09/2019 3:55:39 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: Jarhead9297
The first thing in their mind was a day out of classes. You’re naive to think otherwise

This vigil and subsequent protest happened at night.
During non-school hours.
Are you sure about that above statement?

Vigils were held Wednesday night in Highlands Ranch as the community gathered to honor an 18-year-old shooting victim who was killed Tuesday, to recognize teenage heroes who intervened and likely stopped further carnage, and to thank first responders who rushed to the deadly scene.
40 posted on 05/09/2019 3:57:48 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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