Warner Todd Huston
Of course it is a good thing that our children become politically aware. We do want our kids exposed to political issues and ideas. But, it is another thing entirely to take school funds and buss kids all about the city to attend anti-gun rallies to support Mayor Daley’s anti-Constitutional ideas. And that is precisely what happened on April 1st.
Chicago’s ABC 7 News reported on this “anti-violence rally” that was more like an anti-gun rally. ABC reports that this rally had the “blessing” of school superintendents.
Students from Simeon Career Academy, 8147 S. Vincennes, left school Tuesday with the superintendent’s blessing. The students took part in an anti-violence rally at the Thompson Center. Empty desks and pairs of shoes symbolized the young men and women who have been killed.
Of course, the rally was not an “anti-violence” rally, as ABC headlined their report. It was but another attack on our Constitution in the form of an anti-gun rally.
Thus far 20 students have been killed by gunfire this season, and folks are naturally upset by this outrageous statistic.
Frustrated with the number of students killed by gunfire, community leaders are calling for the passage of new gun legislation. Hundreds of students joined in the movement to reverse a deadly pattern of young people being shot and killed. So far, 20 Chicago public students have been killed by gunfire this school year.
But, it is ridiculous to assume that merely getting rid of guns is the cure to this situation. Gang violence occurs because of societal troubles, not because guns are laying about within easy reach! In fact, these more stringent gun laws won’t do a single thing to stop “gun violence” because these laws will only affect law abiding citizens and gang scumbags are not buying their guns legally in the first place.
Want to stop young black men from using guns, joining gangs, and being killed in drive-by shootings? Impress upon black men that they should stay with the women who bear their children. Strengthen the black family in the black community. THAT is the cause of gang violence. Not guns.
And on top of all that, we have school administrators using school funds to buss our city’s children around at school expense to advocate for the wrong solutions. We have our children being used to further the political aims of those who would take away our Constitutional rights.
That is nearly as much an outrage as the violence that has plagued our schools.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
Chicago Public schools are used to spending taxpayer money to use their students as pawns. They bussed hundreds to Springfield last spring to advocate for higher taxes on all of us. My reports about this can be found at:
Springfield Rally: How Much Did It Cost The Taxpayer?
Taxpayer Funded Rally in Springfield
Chicago Public School Tax Curriculum
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