Days after the Parkland shooting, students at Broward County High School had a walkout to protest for gun control.
They were chanting “Justice for Douglas.”
https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/964559859797565441
I can understand being scared and upset as as a kid in high school, having witnessed kids in another school getting killed. But part of being an adult is overcoming emotion and thinking critically about things.
They want “justice for Douglas.” Okay, what form does that justice take?
CNBC reported that there are some 5 million AR-15’s in civilian hands.
The overwhelming majority of AR-15 owners didn’t shoot up a school, and never will. The overwhelming majority of gun owners in general won’t either.
So enacting gun control bans that collectively strip rights away from law abiding citizens isn’t justice. It’s collective punishment.
The Left doesn’t rely on critical thinking, it relies on emotion.
Remember the hysterical nonsense of the Women’s March? Remember Ashley Judd yelling about being a nasty woman? This is politics driven by emotion, not rational though.
So it comes to no supersize that the Women’s March is organizing a national student walkout for gun control.
Enough is enough!
Women's March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, and allies to take part in a #NationalSchoolWalkout for 17 minutes at 10am on March 14, 2018. Join us in saying #ENOUGH!https://t.co/8ZE8uthRlZ pic.twitter.com/45yCZl4zDm
— Women's March (@womensmarch) February 16, 2018
They are going to take to the streets, driven by emotion, with virtually no facts on their side. They are going to be hailed as heroes by the media. We will be implored to the “listen to the children.”
This is the same politics we’ve seen since November 2016, just targeting something new. The mewling of immature people, with no understanding of reality but demanding that “something” be done because they feel it should be.
I feel bad for some of the kids, being used like this by activists. But some of these kids are about to turn 18 and are going to be eligible to vote soon. They need to grow up and understand that emotion is not a surrogate for knowledge, just because they FEEL something, doesn’t make it so.
Yeah, I saw this on my local neighborhood app. Someone had started a conversation on what to do about school shootings. Hysteria ensued. People making suggestions on what schools should do.
I never bothered to enter that fray yet, mostly because the hystericals were outnumbered two or three to one by logical, reasonable suggestions. But I found it quite humorous and sad at the same time that people were suggesting things like door buzzers and cameras, as if that would work, but more importantly, as if those things weren’t already in place! Every one of my kids’ schools (1 in elementary, 1 middle school, 2 in high school) has this in place already. These people are making suggestions about what to do when they have no idea what is already in place.
Someone mentioned this march, and how they supported it. Other immediately asked what laws in particular are they hoping to change. What laws exactly are they wanting? Background checks on all sales (check, we unfortunately have that), magazine restrictions (check, we unfortunately have that nonsense too). Waiting periods was the only new one. But give our liberal governor some time, he’ll sign that shit too if it crosses his desk.
I find it funny (in a peculiar way) that people are asking for things we already have, or suggesting doing something we are already doing. It’s almost as though they have no concept of what reality is….