Posted on 03/22/2018 2:25:43 AM PDT by marktwain
There have been numerous reports of students being bullied, pushed to participate in anti-Second Amendment protests they did not believe in, and of being punished for speaking out.
The Second Amendment Foundation today announced a project to help students who have been harassed, intimidated or bullied for resisting peer pressure to join the wave of protests against guns and the right to keep and bear arms.
"Students can call the SAF toll-free hotline to obtain information about legal help and report violations of their First Amendment rights," he added. "The foundation is prepared to take legal action if necessary."
The SAF toll-free hotline number is 800-426-4302.
"All schools should be safe for all students," Gottlieb observed. "We should all be on alert for harassment or intimidation of students who disagree with an uncivil mob mentality. After all, not all school age Americans agree with the current demands for more erosion of our Second Amendment rights.
"While we encourage young Americans to speak their minds and engage in productive debate and dialogue about this issue," he said, "we cannot condone any behavior designed to silence or intimidate others with different viewpoints. That is why we are announcing this project to help students who support their constitutional rights.
"We recognize that in times of high emotion and short tempers, there is inevitably the potential for disagreement to get out of hand," Gottlieb noted. "It is often too easy to go beyond the bounds of rational discourse and enter the realm of vindictiveness. If we are to find the common ground everyone seems to seek, we've got to find it together. If students are penalized for exercising their First Amendment rights to defend the Second Amendment, we want to know about it."
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
Dean Weingarten
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Paging Betsy DeVos.
BINGO BTTT
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The NRA needs to hop on this train, too.
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Anyone have a firm accounting of when our schools turned into full-fledged communist indoctrination centers? I was in public schools from 85-98, and while I remember some effluence being spilled from leftist teachers, most of my educators were professional and stuck to their lesson plans. Hell, I remember in high school carrying a Bush/Kemp yard sign with me to school, and no one said a word to me about it.
I realize that there’s not likely a definitive line in the sand, that all of this is a gradient, but something happened in the last 20 years that turned the Communism in public schools up to 11. I’m curious if anyone has researched this.
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The first amendment was not violated when they intimidated those children, the second one. It was a forcible drafting by a virtual leftist paramilitary force, Columbian FARC style
That no one is revolting against this bull sht is the other scandal
The first amendment was violated the minute these school
kids used my tax money for education to go for political candidates and beliefs not mine.
Wake the hell up America
* the second one [amendment] was
The SAF, which is not nearly as well known as the NRA, looks like a group worthy of support.
An example needs to be set for those who violate ANY students First or Second Amendment rights as has been described. Major law suits with heavy fines! One can hope at least.
BTTT. Anybody know the NRA’s opinion of the SAF? Just wondering.
I foresee a very large push for ON LINE schooling companies, following a cirriculum that each state puts out.
The kids can do their schooling from home. Tutors where necessary.
Cuts down the costs of school campuses, where current schools are far more elaborate than anything I was on as a kid.
Yes.
Brick and mortar schools are anachronisms.
They are indoctrination centers for the left, and serve as ways to funnel tax dollars to the left.
The NEA is an anti-American, anti-freedom organization.
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