Emma Gonzalez is a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school.  She survived an unbelievable tragedy, and my heart goes out to her for that.

However, thanks to CNN, that is where my empathy ends and my anger begins.

She is a victim.  By the laws of modern social convention, that gives her power and the right to get vengeance against those she identified as her oppressors.

CNN gave her a platform and she gave this speech.

That is a power play.  She’s got her notes from AP Government and is proceeding to lecture the United States on its Founding Father’s intentions on guns and the effectiveness of the Australian gun ban, and argues against the NRA and Trump.

CNN interviewed her a second time, along with a friend.

This is a girl who is now addicted to power.  She is going to use her victim status be beat other people into submission with the help of CNN.  Fast forward to 4:12 and she is asked “what do you say to the NRA?”

Their answer is “disband, dismantle” and “don’t you dare come back here.”

The NRA is an organization of millions of members and has existed since 1871, but it’s supposed to disband because one teenage girl says so?

Forget the Second Amendment, that’s and attack on the First Amendment “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

She immediately jumps into the progressive politics of power dynamics.  The NRA “has had power for so long” and now it is time for a victim to take that power away.  She said “gun control is the first thing we are focusing on.”  Meaning what?  After gun control what comes next?  Once she has achieved her power play on guns, what is the next ‘for the children‘ right she wants to take away?

Then she lays down her ultimatum.  NRA money is blood money.

This of course is the ONLY reason conservative politicians support gun rights, it’s not that they have principles or anything.  I’m pretty sure the NRA gives money to politicians who  support gun rights and not politicians support gun rights because of a few thousand dollars of NRA money.  I doubt Ted Cruz would vote for an AWB if the NRA didn’t cut his campaign a check.  I think this is just another example of Liberal projection.  They have no principles except doing what they need to, to stay and power, so they assume gun rights supporters are the same.

Back to NRA blood money.  She makes it clear politicians “funding the killers or standing with the children.”  Miguel covered the “NRA trained Cruz” lie already.  This girl is doubling down on it on CNN and making it clear that you are either with her or against her.  There is no middle ground.

That is a power play.  Either give up your gun rights, your right of assembly, your right to engage in politics, or you are “against the children.”  And, of course, on a monster would be “against the children.”

“If you can’t get elected without taking money from child murderers, why are you running?”

That is a hell of a statement, calling the NRA child murderers and impugning the morality of anybody on the other side of their position.

I want to support the kids who survived watching their classmates getting killed.  But this girl and her friend have thrown down the gauntlet and declared me her enemy.

She’s a victim and I must bend to her will.  I have to stop supporting the NRA, give up my guns, and acquiesce to whatever restriction of rights she proposes next, or I am a child murderer who stands against the children.

Nope.  I’m not going to let a teenage girl, or anybody for that matter, get on CNN with their freshly minted victim status and tell me what rights I’m allowed to have.

CNN has sucked all the sympathy for this girl and her classmates away.

This will be my third time covering The Root.  The last time, I didn’t think The Root could be more racist or give worse advice to black men.

I was wrong.

Like the Jabari tribe of #Wakanda, it might be high time we start barking at white people when they speak out of turn: https://t.co/JGb6qRfnGi #BlackPanther pic.twitter.com/6LdTRruWbl

— The Root (@TheRoot) February 19, 2018

Full disclosure, I haven’t seen Black Panther.  I’m waiting for it to hit HBO.

Sargon of Akkad gives a rundown of the movie and describes this scene from the movie (NSFW Language).

So this is the article that Damon Young published.

We Need To Start Barking At White People Who Speak Out Of Turn

One thing, however, that we can and definitely should start doing is what M’Baku and his Que Dog Jabari Tribe did when encountering a problematic white dude who was speaking when there was no ask or need or purpose for the thoughts and opinions of problematic white dudes.

Bark.

Not a purposeless bark. This isn’t a shih tzu barking through the window at a squirrel. Instead this would be an intentional bark. A targeted bark. An overpowering bark. A drowning bark. A Wakandan bark. A bark meant to communicate “Um, who told you that you can speak? When it is time for your words, we will let you know. And maybe that time will never come. We’ll see. Now, just shut up and stand there. Maybe get on your phone and google ‘How not to be a colonizer.’ Whatever you do, I want to hear you not speaking.”

 The bark doesn’t just have to be a counter for useless words, either. A wayward white hand reaches for your hair? WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! A group of white people huddled on a sidewalk refuse to step aside when you attempt to walk past them? WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! A purse is clutched when you walk on an elevator? WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! (If they’re going to act scared, you might as well give them a reason to be.)

Let me see if I get this straight?

My wife and I, or some buddies of mine and I are standing, talking on a sidewalk or out in front of a restaurant somewhere, minding out own business, and all of a sudden, some black man starts barking or howling at us like a mad animal.

Is this supposed to do anything other than invite a searing blast of mace to the face?

If somebody started barking at me, my first thought isn’t going to be “I had best check my white privilege.”  It’s going to be much more along the lines of “this person is clearly insane and I best be prepared to defend myself.”

I’m not sure how acting like a howler monkey is going to make white people respect black people.

The last time I covered The Root, Young was giving black men advice how to get fired.  Now he is giving them advice on how to get the cops called on them.

This is so bad that if I found out Damon Young was really a Klansman with a black avatar, trolling a black magazine, it would actually make more sense.

Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, a Democrat (color me surprised) tries to grandstand by asking the  NRA not to have the Annual Meeting in his city

“It is a tough call when you ask the NRA to reconsider coming to Dallas. But it is putting all citizens first and getting them to come to the table and elected officials to come to the table and to address this madness now,” said Caraway.

Dallas Mayor Pro Tem urges NRA to find a new home for their convention

 

You gotta love the stupid. Not only to deny his city with the great income that the NRA AM brings but also the descent in crime for that weekend. Democrat politicians apparently have not figured out what the common criminal has: There is no reward in going to screw with a bunch of armed people who know how to shoot.

I hate when a piece of information that I know I have decides not to ring its bell in my brain.  The good news is that somebody not only did remember but has made a full on investigation:

Broward County schools intentionally created polices from 2010 through 2016 that culminated in the 2018 mass school shooting in Parkland. We know this with great specificity because five years ago we warned Broward County Florida school board members this could happen.
In 2012 and 2013 while doing research into the Trayvon Martin shooting we discovered an alarming set of school policies being enacted in Miami-Dade and Broward County Florida. The policies were called “diversionary programs” and were essentially about stopping High School students from being arrested. Law enforcement was instructed to avoid arrests and defer criminal conduct to school administrators.
Students who engaged in violence, drug sales, robberies, burglaries, theft and other various crimes were intentionally kept out of the criminal justice system. County administrators and School Superintendents told local and county law enforcement officers to stop arresting students.

School Shooting Was Outcome of Broward County School Board Policy – Now Local and National Politicians Weaponize Kids for Ideological Intents…

Fixing the stats to look good.  Go read the whole article, it is frightfully illuminating.

Shocking photos posted to Twitter of a CBS News reporter and students who survived last Wednesday’s high school massacre in Parkland, Florida that killed seventeen students and faculty, show the reporter and students laughing uproariously and posing for the photos like they are partying rock stars.

These photos were taken over the weekend on the set of an interview taped for broadcast Monday morning. This means the students were only three or four days out from surviving a massacre in their school. In just a few days they have become celebrated heroes of the anti-Trump resistance and are acting and being feted like rock stars.

Student School Massacre Survivors and CBS Reporter Party Like Rock Stars

I am sure that is how they process their pain and stuff.

In a previous post, I wrote about an acquaintance supporting legislation for the sales of rifles to only those 21 and over as it was done in a  gun store he used to work for. An employee of the same store also jumped into the fray so I contacted the store and asked them about it.

Here is the screen caps.

Good for them to give a prompt and complete answer.

I have no problem with their internal policies as long as they are within the law. I may disagree with not selling to people under 21, but I respect their wishes as it is their hard-earned business.

A bunch of kids laid in the street to protest for gun control.   They laid their for three whole minutes, supposedly because that’s how long it took for Nikolas Cruz to buy a gun.

WATCH: Students led a "lie-in" protest for gun reform outside of the White House in wake of last week's Parkland, Florida, shooting. Looking to symbolize how quickly the gunman was able to obtain an assault rifle, they remained on the ground for three minutes pic.twitter.com/p6y6HCSGxl

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 19, 2018

I don’t think the three minutes had anything to do with how long a NICS check takes, but how long they could go without checking their Facebook status on their phones.