In Coeur d'Alene, armed gun-rights advocates demonstrate against school walk-out
About 400 yards west of Coeur d’Alene High School’s student walkout Wednesday, a second group – this one made up of adults, armed with semi-automatic weapons and handguns – staged a counterprotest.
Standing along a fence facing Government Way, the 40 or so open-carry advocates – many of them veterans – stood in soggy conditions for about an hour, occasionally acknowledging honks of support from passing vehicles and exchanging pro-Second Amendment talking points.
A month after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, schools across the country staged 17-minute protests Wednesday to advance school safety and pressure Congress to pass stronger gun control legislation.
The counterprotesters’ signs conveyed their displeasure with the movement.
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