spitblaze:

Hey everyone participating in the school walkouts:

1: Read up on your state/local truancy laws. Federal law prevents students from being locked up status offenses like truancy, but some states have their own ways of dealing with this, especially if you’re already on probation. The walk-out is important but if you’re in a situation where you’d be on a tight leash regarding this or you’re just nervous, it helps to have an excuse ready.

2: Pleeeeeease be careful. The reason that teachers are required to lead their students out of the building during fire drills and fire alarms and why you’re not instructed to leave the building when theres a gun threat is because of prescedence, there’s been at least one case where shooters pulled the alarm to get people out of the building and picked them off as they went outside. Am I saying this will for sure happen to you? Of course not, the chances are slim to none, but if you’re still nervous about participating, it may just be better for your ease of mind to not attend school at all on the days of the walk-outs.

3: Don’t take shit from adults. You’re smarter than they give you credit for. This isnt a futile effort, nearly every developed nation with gun control laws has had less than 5 mass shootings in the past 18 years after gun laws were instituted. A good guy with a gun doesn’t stop a bad guy with a gun, it only makes the situation escalate and scares more people. This isn’t an issue of ‘mental illness’, this is an issue of people with bad intentions having virtually unlimited access to tools designed specifically designed to kill. Don’t be fooled.

4: if you’re going to be 18 by the time the November elections roll around, REGISTER TO VOTE. A huge chunk of the NRA shills in the government will be up for re-election, and you have the chance to get them out.

Thats all I gotta say. Be safe guys, and I hope this leads to a real chance to fix this problem.