Posted on 05/22/2018 1:11:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SANTA FE, Texas — Alex Carvey hugged her friends, shed tears over white crosses bearing her classmates’ names and stood in silence for a moment. Then she reflected on the cause of the violence that hit her hometown.
“I don’t think guns are the problem — I think people are the problem,” Carvey, 16, a student at Santa Fe High School, said. “Even if we did more gun laws, people who are sick enough to do something like this are still going to figure out a way to do it. So it doesn’t matter.”
Many of Carvey’s classmates — along with their parents — agree with her. In contrast to the immediate aftermath of the Feb. 14 massacre in Parkland, Florida, when student survivors kicked off a national call for tougher gun control laws on social media and in street protests, there are few calls for new gun laws in Santa Fe.
Residents here still largely associate guns with hunting and family tradition, not mass shootings. In March, when students across the country walked out of schools to protest gun violence, just a handful of Santa Fe High School students participated.
“No matter how many laws there are, you can always break them,” said Nora Tulo, 15, a student at the high school.
The stark differences in the responses to the mass shootings just three months apart serve as a reminder that in many parts of the country, including this section of rural southeast Texas, guns are woven into the history, upbringing and culture, and the relationship with guns gets passed down through the generations.
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Wise girl...................
One of our account execs is a Texan with kids in high school, and she was telling us that they’re tired of the narrative being thrown around by the likes of Hogg and his minions. They want Americans to know that Texas isn’t going to be cowed into submission by the anti-gun elites. These events should strengthen our resolve to defend liberty, not weaken it in the name of safety.
Left unsaid by most after Parkland is that it occurred in one of the most rabidly leftist areas of the country and these little know it all Mao wannabes do not speak for most Americans. It was teed up way too nicely for the media, though.
Texas Bump!
The girl nailed it on the head. This country is sick. The culture is rotten.
I think one of the biggest differences between Parkland and Santa Fe is that the people in Santa Fe are not interested in using the tragedy as a wedge. Parkland appeared to have people in place to jump on tbe issue and just hammering away with a specific slant on the issue.
Texas Ping.
Fake news. The kids from Parkland who were actually at school during the shooting said the same thing as the Santa Fe kids.
Ingraham showed a clip last night of some #FakeNews reporter trying to get the Santa Fe High baseball players to join the Hogg-Cueball gun control movement. They wouldn’t play ball with her.
Disgusting Progressive asshats!
Indeed.
Guns are inanimate objects.
They literally do nothing.
A glimpse of sanity in a mad, mad world. Thanks for posting.
I grew up in that area... about 20 miles away. Nice to hear the people there haven’t changed all that much.
Santa Fe students who aren’t on board with confiscation are getting an earful on social media, that’s for sure.
My pronouncement: don’t call it “gun safety” or “common sense gun laws”or “gun control” or “assault weapons ban”.
It is CONFISCATION. The word “gun” need not precede it. The mask is off and this is what gungrabbers want.
And if they have to confiscate from one owner at a time, they will use GVRO/Red Flag/SWATing to do just that.
Yeah, finally a voice of reason...
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