"Hey Dad, can you excuse me from class?"
"Why?"
"A bunch of people are leaving class to go walk around to honor the kids who were shot in Florida."
I told my daughter that I would not excuse her from class to join in the march. I told her its purpose was NOT to honor the kids who have died; it was an anti-gun campaign*. A campaign to take away the AR-15 that she loves to shoot when we go to the range.
Her next question is telling.
"Why did they lie to me?"
I told her to go class and we would talk about it when she got home.
I wasn't exactly surprised by this. I had heard a lot about both the March for our Lives and the National Walkout today. I was just surprised that they had lied to my daughter so that they could use her as a political pawn. The very same teachers that I trust to educate her lied to her.
They underplayed their purpose and agenda to make her think and feel that she was doing something good: she was honoring the dead.
But conveniently those who told her this left out that the real purpose of the walkout was to take away her father's guns. They didn't tell her that David Hogg, the organizer of the March for our Lives, has said her father, a member of the NRA, is "selfish" and "sickening". He has claimed that I love my guns more than my own daughter, which she knows isn't even remotely true.
But they conveniently left that out. Because they never cared about the agency of my daughter. They cared about using her to push their agenda.
How many of my daughter's classmates had absolutely no idea what was actually happening, whilst the news totes them as marching to demand stricter gun laws. I would guess the majority of them.
This article is part of a series on firearms.
*EMPOWER, the organization that organized the walkout, states the purpose of the walkout today was "to honor the lives of the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and to press lawmakers to pass stricter gun control laws".
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