Students walk out of their schools for gun control to the delight of the media.

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I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

So we have a lot to get to today. As I predicted yesterday, all of the walkouts turned out to be just media propaganda campaign on behalf of gun control. It was not about solidarity with the slain students. It was not really about mourning over the slain students. It was not about America coming together around the cause of stopping violence in schools. It was a gun control program. That's all that was happening yesterday all across the country. It was not a unifying moment. It was a divisive one. It needn't have been. We'll get to all of that in just a second.

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the one million abortions plus in the United States per year, if every student in America did that,

how many of those teachers do you think would excuse the students and how many of them do you think would actually punish the students? How many do you think would dock the students in some way?

In other words, one of the problems here is that you have these leftist propaganda centers called our public schools that are taught by teachers who are members of teachers' unions, who are Democratic Party cronies, and then they use that position in order to promulgate a certain agenda. So all these students get up and they walk out. Of course, the thing really was organizing Astros Turf by the Women's March, and they used the same organizational structures in order to push it. The Women's March, of course, run by some of the worst people on

planet Earth members of the Louis Farrakhan contingent. And so they organized this whole thing as

gun control push. Now, what was so annoying about this, and I discussed it yesterday, read a bunch of

letters from students, and I have a thousand more today. I mean, really, I must have received at least 250 emails yesterday from students around the country who are upset about how they were treated yesterday during these walkouts.

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