You will want to read this account of two Florida teenagers who are being used as pawns to push for gun control.
In recent posts I have called your attention to some of the remarks made by teenagers from the Parkland, Florida high school, site of a shooting that took the lives of 17 individuals.
Within hours of the shooting, CNN aired a townhall of sorts that gave the spotlight to the likes of David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, who have become so enamored with the media attention that they are now an embarrassment.
Hogg is shown here with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has been pushing for more gun control for decades. (townhall photo)
You may recall how Kasky blamed the generations before him, and arrogantly accepted their apology, adding “We appreciate that you are willing to let us rebuild what you f***ed up.”
Hogg was described as “mad as hell” during an interview with The Outline, proclaiming that he and his fellow students were pushing gun control laws, because their parents “don’t know how to use a f***ing democracy.”
While he speaks of the “legion of people” pushing gun control as the people who have stepped up to become leaders, he belittled the parents who are behind them.
Citing an example of “old-ass parents” who don’t know how to send a message on a cell phone, he says “Give me the f***ing phone” and you get it done in one second. “Sadly,” said Hogg, “that’s what we have to do with our government, because our parents don’t know how to use a f***ing democracy, so we have to.”
He also insulted Florida Governor Rick Scott, saying “(he) does not give a f**k about these kids lives at all.”
Is that the kind of language kids in the Florida school system use? If so, parents have more than school safety to be concerned about.
When you watch the coverage of the march in Washington DC and other cities, know that it is fueled by the left with hundreds of thousands od dollars contributed for the protest by George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey and others.
I highly recommend a piece by Stella Morabito, “20 Questions for Mass Schooling Survivors Before Hyping Gun Control, “ in The Federalist. Click here to read it.
Consider having the likes of Hogg and Kasky as classmates. Morabito asks about those students who didn’t participate in the school walkout or the march, concerned about being left alone and not harassed for non-participation.
We know that the FBI, local law enforcement officials, the community and teachers all knew of the shooter’s instability for years, and did nothing. Law enforcement, including the armed school resource officer, failed to engage the shooter despite hearing gunfire.
Yet, we haven’t heard of any student activists addressing this problem. Morabito seems to think that non-gun control students may worry about non-conformity. She asks, “do your realize how it shuts off the ability to develop and express your own thoughts?
Of course, we know that if it isn’t about gun control it won’t make the mainstream news.
