I will not criticize these kids. Their lives were traumatized and they lost friends and teachers. If they want to try to find solutions, more power to them.
I respect that, and as I wrote:
“Both are advocates of additional gun control laws, and have been extremely critical of President Trump. That is surely their right, as it is also their right to take this moment of national attention to promote their views.”
Their lives might have been traumatized ......
.....but surely not as much as the young girl who barely survived after being shot....
.....yet gladly and with her family gathered smiled broadly and welcomed the President and First Lady when they visited her bedside!
These two, Hogg, etc.... are being used, imo
The President WILL do something about this....
....but he’s not going to cower and shake because two kids want to take our guns
Then you’re party of the problem.
Thing is, once you enter the political arena, you have to be prepared to participate fully. They are choosing to go very low just days after a tragedy. Very low.
I’ll criticize them all day long. “Waving the bloody shirt” does not excuse them. My God-given rights supersede their trauma.
I will.
STFU Cher’ren
I don’t care how many people they lost, they have no right to advocate for fascism. These people are just as dangerous as the nutter that shot up the school.
I will not criticize these kids. Their lives were traumatized and they lost friends and teachers.
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That school is bigger than a lot of small towns. Chances are they didn’t know any of the victims.
Except their only solution is infringing on our rights...
Did you actually listen to them?
They said the time for debate is over and they are giving NRA backed Republicans a chance to meet with them to repudiate the NRA and 2nd Amendment or be punished on November.
I will criticize them. They’re playing politics as instructed by their handlers. And the national and local media are praising them without any balance.
This is the Jersey Girls for high school.
If you don’t give kids the benifit of your years you aren’t doing them any favors.
They’re being used by the adults in their lives. Get a clue.
My suggestion is to get rid of all federal gun control laws, including gun-free school zones, NICS, Form 4473, etc. Then, each state should be free to determine a background check system to weed out the crazies and felons from getting regulated firearms, at least for a period of time. At the same time, each school board should be allowed to determine a policy on guns in schools, since it used to be that teenagers could bring their hunting rifles to school and store them in their lockers for hunting after school. Such policy could include allowing teachers to be armed and allowing kids to bring their hunting rifles on campus once gain.
NICS should be nuked, since the Federal government has repeatedly proven in the area of preventing these events that it cannot find its own behind with both hands and a flashlight.
I dunno. Part of me thinks some of these activist kids gave each other high-fives after it was over.