The tens of thousands of middle and high school kids who staged a nationwide protest against gun violence on Wednesday were unwittingly influenced by far-left groups whose ultimate goal is to have Americans' firearms confiscated, Bill O'Reilly tells Newsmax TV.
"This is a good news-bad news situation," O'Reilly, the bestselling author and host of "Now Spin News," said in an interview with Newsmax's John Bachman.
"You want kids to pay attention to their country and public policy, but you also have a severe group-think, particularly in high school … The pressure is to conform to walking out of school in favor of more stringent gun control.
"What the kids and the American public don't know is that this walk out was put together by a group called 'EMPOWER.' And who are those people? Well, they're tied to the far-left Women's March organization, which as we exposed last week, is tied to [Nation of Islam founder] Louis Farrakhan."
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As Haaretz reported on Thursday, progressive groups are being asked to withdraw their support for the Women's March until four of its leaders resign over their association with Farrakhan, who has long been accused of being anti-Semite.
"Now, I'm not saying the kids today are tied to Louis Farrakhan, but what I'm saying is that the far-left is very well organized and very sneaky," O'Reilly told Bachman.
"There isn't any kid I know that's ever heard of EMPOWER or even the Women's March organization. They don't know who's behind all this. And that's dangerous. And the American people don't know either because you won't hear this covered on the network or cable news organizations.
"But it is a radical left movement involved in trying to convince the American public not only to have gun control measures but to have confiscation. That's the ultimate goal and we all know that."
The mass protests occurred exactly one month after 17 children and adults were shot dead people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Organizers said the goal was to highlight Congress' inaction in strengthening gun laws, including banning assault weapons like the AR-15 rifle used in the school massacre.
O'Reilly is the author of "Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence," written with Martin Dugard and published by Henry Holt and Co.
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