Democrats run strong in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district.

Students prepare to walk out all day to protest gun violence.

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congressional district last night because that actually, I have a lot of notes on that.

But we begin today with this massive walkout that's happening at supposedly 2,500 schools

all over America where a bunch of kids astro-turfed by people who organized the Women's March

have decided to walk out of school for 17 minutes to honor

the victims at Parkman, at, uh, rather the Parkland school shooting, the victims in Marjorie

Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. And of course, what this really is, is not a call

for an agenda, right? It's not actually a, an agenda driven march, right? We actually don't know what

they want. And if you read what the women's march say they are marching for, nobody agrees with their actual agenda. I'll get to their actual agenda in a second. But what it really is about is about having a lot of pictures, a lot of young people standing around and saying that they hate gun violence so that a bunch of leftist politicians can claim that they are standing with the children in pushing for vast gun

confiscation regimes. That's what this is all about. And that's essentially what the New York Times admits in their editorial today. They say the children should lead us, which to which I say, fine, then let the children take over your editorial board. They can't do a worse job than you have. Why don't you just let the kids run all your op-eds? And they can decide whether they want to run op-eds on whether homework is necessary or not. It's really funny. All the adults at the New York

Times were all in their 50s, they always talk about how wonderful and genius these 17-year-olds are, but I don't see them giving up their jobs anytime soon to high school juniors who are attending Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. But here's what they write in their editorial. They say, adults are supposed to take care of children.

Not only keep them safe, but make them feel safe. Weird, I don't hear this from the New York Times on issues like abortion, that adults are supposed to take care of children. I don't hear about them with regard to single motherhood. That line seems to go out the window. But now, of course, adults are supposed to take care of children, according to the New York Times, not by defending kids with guns, but by letting kids decide policy, which is a weird way of protecting them.

They say schools are essentially an extension of the home, in that sense, providing sanctuaries of learning, of nurturing, and care. But after years of attacks by people with weapons of war, students cannot feel safe and are demanding that adults end years of complacence and act. Okay, first of all, it is, these school shootings are actually on the decline, not on the uptick, statistically speaking, and your chances of being killed in a school shooting are significantly worse than your chances of being killed in virtually any other sort of accidents in the United States. And these are acts of terror, really. They're not asking for their schools to become armed garrisons, while some would like for there to be more armed guards say, rather, they want those weapons to be brought under control. I like how the New York Times has direct link into the minds of all young people. It's amazing, it's like Rousseau's General Will. They just look at young people, and they magically know that all of Chuck Schumer's proposals on gun control have embedded themselves in the minds of young folks. But what is the smack of the

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