National Rifle Association Spokesperson Dana Loesch, following Wednesday's student walkouts and protests in several major cities, said that she supports them for expressing their First Amendment rights, but she was not happy that some people were trying to exploit the movement for their own gains.
"I'm always supportive of people going out and expressing their First Amendment right," Loesch told Fox News' "Fox & Friends." "Look, I don't want to make apologies for my Second Amendment rights so I don't expect people to make apologies for their First Amendment right. I do wish we had some in the political class that would stop trying to exploit this six ways to Sunday for their own political gain."
She then made the comment that the walkouts "were organized by the Women's March, which are dealing with some serious anti-Semitic accusations right now, which maybe perhaps wasn't the best optic. I think they make it harder for people to be heard when they get some of the attention that these kids are getting from everyone, because they're expressing their viewpoints.”
Several of the leaders of the Women's March have refused to distance themselves from the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan, The Atlantic reported this week.
Loesch also complained that the message behind the walkouts also seemed to blame the NRA and President Donald Trump for the school shootings in Parkland, Florida, rather than to make a call for school safety, which makes no sense to her.
"President Trump wasn't the one down in Parkland not paying attention to the 45 calls," Loesch said, adding that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel "had the best day yesterday because nobody was talking about him."
"I think that is how he wants it," she said. "No one was talking about his competency. No one was talking about his failure to stand up the to kids by answering the 45 calls that came into his department, including calls from the murderer's mother herself, who was even warning law enforcement this murderer put a gun to her head before, after reports came out he punched her so hard in the face he knocked her teeth out."
She also said she does not want anyone to forget that Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed on Feb. 14, had a file against accused shooter Nikolas Cruz, 18, or that he had been meeting with therapists where he was speaking "of his gory fantasies about school shootings."
The House of Representatives passed the Stop School Violence Act on Wednesday by a 407-10 vote, but Loesch said she doesn't think the matter of school safety should be a political issue.
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