The Protesters the Mainstream Media Won’t Ever Show You

Oh, sure, you’ll hear plenty today, and for days and days afterward, about all the passionate people who were present at the March for Our Lives events on Saturday — from Boston to Denver, from Atlanta to L.A., and from Washington, D.C., to Seattle and many points in between.

But you almost certainly won’t hear from the mainstream media about the people who showed up in the nation’s capital on Saturday, March 24, to talk about the rights guaranteed them and all Americans by the Second Amendment.

No one wants gun violence against another individual to occur. But neither do supporters of the Second Amendment want their firearms unceremoniously taken away from them in some sort of massive gun grab after tragedies and shootings.

Among the students and families in Saturday’s crowd in D.C. were hundreds of teachers, many of whom were advocating for additional protections for their students. Jamie Sullins, a kindergarten teacher from Florida, was staying at the Trump International Hotel with her family when she heard about the march.

“I definitely think it’s devastating — school shootings and these things happening,” Sullins told LifeZette. “It’s definitely scary for the kids who are in school now to have to deal with those things.”

That said, Sullins is a gun owner — and she argued that the solution to gun violence is not to take firearms away from licensed owners.

“Taking [guns] away from the people who are not out to hurt people gets in the way of being able to protect,” she said.

Sullins said that the recent shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland, during which an armed school resource officer responded within one minute and successfully disarmed Austin Wyatt Rollins, 17, showed that removing guns from the equation could result in more casualties.

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