These children are misguided and ill-informed. But they do have a point...

Students across the country held walkouts on Thursday in the 

wake of the brutal massacre in Uvalde, Texas. 

From Meridian High School in Virginia to El Camino Real Charter High School in California, students across the country took part in walkouts to demand gun control measures, instead of demanding that their schools be more secure so they'll be safer in them. 

Meanwhile in Rhode Island, students from several schools in Providence laid down for three minutes outside the Rhode Island State House.

At Oxford High School in Michigan, over 100 students walked out of class on Thursday. The school was the site of its own deadly shooting on Nov. 30, where four students were killed. 

 

Of course they have a right to speak their minds, and of course they're correct in one sense. Everything that can possibly be done should be done to protect the kids. It's a valid point. 

What they fail to understand is that it's their schools - and their parents - obligation to keep them safe, and in almost every single instance like the one this week in Texas, it was the inaction of the school leaders to prevent what happened. 

The school was not protected by an armed guard. There was not a single-entry point for the school. The murderer simply walked in through an unlocked door the teachers use to enter the building from their parking lot. That's unforgivable.