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It looks like a lot of energy (and some money) is being put into the activism being engaged in by the high school kids turned protestors. The kids are getting on buses (who's paying for that ?) and traveling some long distances to protest gun control (usually about background checks & banning assault weapons ). They're wearing T-shirts that read "March For Our Lives" (who's paying for that ?)
I'm assuming that since these kids are still in school, that they don't have jobs, or much money of their own. So somebody (adults) out there is financing all this. In any case, the kids are wearing the shirts and doing the legwork, and kudos to them for that, but simultaneously, they all seem to be on just one mission > gun control.
Sure looks like some elements of the anti-gun culture are driving this thing, and using the kids to do their bidding. I wonder if the kids would be as enthusiastic, is they knew a bit more about the whole school shooting issue, like all these things >>
1. There is a leniency program at MSDHS (and around the country) to shelter kids from getting arrest records (the PROMISE Program). Despite committing violent crimes, Nikolas Cruz was shielded by this dangerous program, and thus (with no criminal record) was able to buy guns. If it's background checks the kids are concerned about, they ought to be protesting about this.
2. There's another program (the "jail-to school pipeline") that takes violent criminal kids out of jail, and puts them right into the classroom. What kind of school safety is that ? Odds are that the kids are unaware of this too - and the liberal media hasn't breathed a word of it. Is anybody getting this information to the kids ?
3. There are various definititons for the term assault weapons, but the most clear one is guns capable of selective fire (including burst and fully automatic). The AR-15 that Nikolas Cruz used is not one of these, it is merely a semi-automatic, that fires only with each pull of the trigger. The assault weapons (machine guns) that are so much the object of the protests, are already illegal (if made since 1985). Ones made before 1985 are prohibitively expensive.
4. Large capacity magazines being protested about, have not been used in school shootings, and smaller capacity magazines can be reloaded in a few seconds.
5. The kids seem to be echoing the calls of liberal school boards (and perhaps teachers and parents) to keep the schools as "gun-free zones" and not allow teachers and other school employees from being armed. These are invitations to mass shooters. Do the kids know that states don't have the money to hire cops to guard the schools ? Arming trained school employees is absolutley necessary for them to be protected, while the foolish gun-free zone policy is what got 17 people killed in MSDHS. Odds are nobody's telling them that.
As long as certain apparently wealthy anti-gun zealots are pulling the strings of the high school kid puppets, it looks like all this admirable idealism and energy of the kids is going to be diverted away from the critical issues, and wasted on nothing but the desires of shadowy, narrow-interest, gun-control plotters.
Behind Cruz's Florida Rampage, Obama's School-Leniency Policy
https://www.realclearinvestigations...cipline_policy_and_the_parkland_shooting.html
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/03/02/broward_timeline.html
https://www.realclearinvestigations...oward_countys_jail-to-classroom_pipeline.html
I'm assuming that since these kids are still in school, that they don't have jobs, or much money of their own. So somebody (adults) out there is financing all this. In any case, the kids are wearing the shirts and doing the legwork, and kudos to them for that, but simultaneously, they all seem to be on just one mission > gun control.
Sure looks like some elements of the anti-gun culture are driving this thing, and using the kids to do their bidding. I wonder if the kids would be as enthusiastic, is they knew a bit more about the whole school shooting issue, like all these things >>
1. There is a leniency program at MSDHS (and around the country) to shelter kids from getting arrest records (the PROMISE Program). Despite committing violent crimes, Nikolas Cruz was shielded by this dangerous program, and thus (with no criminal record) was able to buy guns. If it's background checks the kids are concerned about, they ought to be protesting about this.
2. There's another program (the "jail-to school pipeline") that takes violent criminal kids out of jail, and puts them right into the classroom. What kind of school safety is that ? Odds are that the kids are unaware of this too - and the liberal media hasn't breathed a word of it. Is anybody getting this information to the kids ?
3. There are various definititons for the term assault weapons, but the most clear one is guns capable of selective fire (including burst and fully automatic). The AR-15 that Nikolas Cruz used is not one of these, it is merely a semi-automatic, that fires only with each pull of the trigger. The assault weapons (machine guns) that are so much the object of the protests, are already illegal (if made since 1985). Ones made before 1985 are prohibitively expensive.
4. Large capacity magazines being protested about, have not been used in school shootings, and smaller capacity magazines can be reloaded in a few seconds.
5. The kids seem to be echoing the calls of liberal school boards (and perhaps teachers and parents) to keep the schools as "gun-free zones" and not allow teachers and other school employees from being armed. These are invitations to mass shooters. Do the kids know that states don't have the money to hire cops to guard the schools ? Arming trained school employees is absolutley necessary for them to be protected, while the foolish gun-free zone policy is what got 17 people killed in MSDHS. Odds are nobody's telling them that.
As long as certain apparently wealthy anti-gun zealots are pulling the strings of the high school kid puppets, it looks like all this admirable idealism and energy of the kids is going to be diverted away from the critical issues, and wasted on nothing but the desires of shadowy, narrow-interest, gun-control plotters.
Behind Cruz's Florida Rampage, Obama's School-Leniency Policy
https://www.realclearinvestigations...cipline_policy_and_the_parkland_shooting.html
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/03/02/broward_timeline.html
https://www.realclearinvestigations...oward_countys_jail-to-classroom_pipeline.html
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