WATCH: Democrats, Moms Demand Action Politicize Vigil. Students Storm Out, Chant "Mental Health!"
http://www.dailywire.com/news/46970/watch-democrats-moms-demand-action-politicize-ryan-saavedra
By Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
May 9, 2019
Students from STEM School Highlands Ranch stormed out of a vigil on Wednesday night put on by an organization affiliated with the anti-gun Brady Campaign because the event was "heavily politicized," in the words of one student.
Hundreds of students attended the vigil held in nearby Highlands Ranch High School and quickly realized that the event was intended to push for gun control and was not about remembering Kendrick Castillo, their 18-year-old classmate who was killed when he attacked the assailant, allowing some of his classmates to escape.
A student who attended the event, and wished to remain anonymous, told The Daily Wire that Moms Demand Actions' Laura Reeves was the person who prompted pushback from students due to her heavy politicization of the tragedy that claimed Castillo's life. Multiple people on social media also indicated that Reeves was the person who offended many at the vigil.
Shortly after Reeves' politically charged comments, students got up and stormed out of the high school and chanted, "Mental health!"
One of the students that spoke to The Daily Wire said that Reeves' comments were "dystopian" and not connected to reality, and that she angered the students the most of all the speakers because she was trying to capitalize on their pain.
"It has become our unimaginable reality that gun violence is now so commonplace it is our new reality that we allow families to live in neighborhoods where gunshots can be heard at all hours of the day," Reeves claimed without evidence. "I'm also very disappointed to admit that all the generations before yours made this harder." ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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