Posted on 01/08/2019 10:51:53 AM PST by rktman
Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg ignored a simple question about gun control and background checks on CNNs New Day Tuesday and refused to answer directly.
Host Alisyn Camerota asked Hogg if universal background checks would have prevented the February 2018 tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Hogg, however, failed to come up with a clear answer. (RELATED: David Hogg To Enroll At Harvard)
I think theres many instances, and instances of gun violence, that could have stopped further acts of gun violence. Theres 40,000 people that die of gun violence every year, and a very small minority of them end up being in school shootings, he replied. When were talking about hardening our schools and different things, what were not talking about is how were going to make our communities safer. When were talking about school safety, were neglecting the thousands of students that die either coming to school or coming back from school everyday, or simply just outside their house.
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I made a reasonable effort not long after he became a media darling to try and determine his actual whereabouts with any sort of surety
I could not do so. He could very well have been there but he could very well have not. It is easy to assume he was not simply because he’s obviously a psychopathic liar
Camera Hogg is a lying of course. The real amount of deaths by gun violence is around 12,000 average annually, the rest are suicides.
If he wants to ban suicides by gun then he’ll have to ban bridges, pharmaceuticals and razor blades in bathtubs along with.
But it will get an A or a B at HAAAAAVAAAARD
Chicks?
And here I thought it was too obvious to need an /s
CNN seeking wisdom and guidance from a recent high school grad. Fools advising fools.
Hoggs makes the mistake of assumiong “gun free zone” schools and neighborhood are equal.
The gun grabbers keep using that conflated number -- but people who want to die (suicides) and people who don't want to die (murder victims) are as far apart as it gets.
Japan has a higher suicide rate than the US and prohibits private gun ownership. Where there is a will, there is a way.
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