Doesn't warm mine.
"School shooting survivor tired of old *advertiser censored* parents failing on gun control"
(David Hogg)
When your old-*advertiser censored* parent is like, I dont know how to send an iMessage, and youre just like, Give me the ****ing phone and let me handle it. Sadly, thats what we have to do with our government. Our parents dont know how to use a fking democracy, so we have to"
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...censored*-parents-failing-on-gun-control/amp/
These kids, IMO, are being horribly exploited and encouraged in a very predatory and misguided way as they process a horrific tragedy by one of their own former classmates.
This new found activism isn't "therapy", but profound denial and a sick exploitation of what the REAL problems are that produced the circumstances for their former classmate to conduct a mass shooting. The adults in their lives, IMO, have failed them miserably. They think they are acting with "laser focus" on what the real problems are, but can't see the forest for the trees.
The adults, the administrators, the governmental authorities, ALL FAILED THESE KIDS with their idiotic leniency and intentional shielding of Nick Cruz. The ADULTS and AUTHORITIES with their negligence and appalling deflection
killed the 17 students and teachers at Stoneman Douglas. The gun was just the tool in the hands of an out of control psychopath, who no adult had the balls to confront, remove, and restrain, because of horrifically misguided lenient policies.
None of these deeply misguided teens and activists seem to realize that the
weapons that needs to be
controlled are the
profoundly disturbed STUDENTS and ex-students (like NC) who conduct these awful rampages in schools.
There are no boogymen hiding in the bushes trying to break into schools to shoot kids-- in case after case after case, it is a STUDENT or a FORMER STUDENT that perpetrates these unspeakable atrocities. "Security theater" doesn't fix the problem. More metal detectors doesn't fix the problem. More armed security guards doesn't fix the problem. "Gun control" doesn't fix the problem.
Dealing properly and assertively with disturbed, dangerous students WILL improve the situation.
Stronger doors, more entry buzzers, and stronger glass at the office doors won't stop a determined student shooter.
We HAVE to start calling them STUDENT SHOOTERS to really begin to understand the warped psychology behind what is going on, and get to the root of the problem, to STOP the mayhem.
"Gun control" is just NOT the problem. It is nothing but a huge distraction.
Tucker Carlson: David Hogg Should Stay Out Of Gun Debate, He's An "Extremist"
Let's take this seriously. We should take it seriously because it's serious. If you honestly don't care what the people who disagree with you think, if you believe they want to "murder more children," who are you? Well, you're angry. You're definitely not fit to be making policy for the rest of us. You are by definition an extremist. You should not have power if you really believe anyone who disagrees with you is evil and wants to kill the innocent.
Maybe a journalist can point that out but, no, journalists agree with Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg so they've slapped them on the cover of TIME magazine and declare that they're heroes and you're not allowed to disagree with them...
TUCKER CARLSON: Wait, you say, 'Why are you picking on David Hogg? He's only a kid, he shouldn't be held to adult standards of reasoning or think critically about the consequences of what he espouses.' Well, yeah, exactly. He is a kid. He has just been through unspeakable tragedy. And that's why adults shouldn't be using him or his friends to push their agendas to the rest of us.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v..._stay_out_of_gun_debate_hes_an_extremist.html
BBM.
Stop Making Children Into Moral Authorities
On March 14, high school students from Parkland, Florida, led a school walkout in favor of gun control. The media have already appointed student witnesses of the horror at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School untouchable moral authorities; their opinions are not to be questioned.
There is something deeply perverse about using children to promote a political agenda. Children simply don't know anything about politics.
What makes children particularly valuable is their innocence, not their ignorance. The left seems to like conflating the two characteristics.
Innocence is the moral quality of being sinless, and children are inherently innocent specifically because they have not yet developed the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
But they're not moral guides. We must protect them from having to act as moral guides until they are prepared to do so. And that means we must stop using their innocence -- their lack of capacity for moral decision-making -- as a substitute for moral authority. To do anything less isn't merely foolish; it's cruel.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...g_children_into_moral_authorities_136584.html
