Friday, March 2, 2018

Parkland kids: The return of the grieving activist

Via Billy


According to many gun-control advocates, 18-year-olds are too immature to handle guns – but are mature enough to advise us on gun policy. Thus we're told we must "listen to the voices" of the young Parkland shooting survivors. Not only that, we're not to question or oppose them because they're young, they're survivors and, by golly, because it's absolutely devastating to the anti-gun agenda!

There's something truly reprehensible about this situation, and it's not conservatives criticizing the positions of activist Parkland students such as David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez. It's that liberals are using the students as human props and human shields, letting them throw the punches and then condemning the assailed if they dare defend themselves.

Well, sorry, but as I wrote years ago in "The Grieving Activist," if you want to grieve, grieve. If you want to play politics, play politics.

But my sympathy for grieving ends when the use of grief as a political battering ram begins.

6 comments:

  1. if the kids MUST be listened to without question......
    it's time the NRA organized a march of 18/19/20 year old members/kids of members in support of the 2A and opposed gun control, and stage it in a major blue city.
    unless antifa disrupted the march, the media would report crickets about it.

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    1. a march of 18/19/20 year old members/kids of members in support of the 2A and opposed gun control, and stage it in a major blue city.

      Good idea and doable.

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  2. Link all rights. The age of being an adult for contracts = age to buy a gun = age to get married = age to enlist in army = age to vote = age to drink. Stop picking and choosing. Too immature to act in self defense is too immature to aid in common defense. Too I mature to do what is best for themselves is too immature to have a say is what is best for us all.

    --genericviews

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    1. Stop picking and choosing.

      Imagine the amount of taxpayer's money spent on these.

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  3. And if 18 is the age of independence, then colleges can no longer factor in parents income in grant decisions and all students get instate rates because they live near the college (unless they cross state lines every day to attend classes. And set the age for being kicked from parent's medical insurance at the same age.

    -- genericviews

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