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Being shot at doesn’t make you an expert on ending gun violence
Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 2/20/2018 | Victor Joecks

Posted on 02/21/2018 10:30:59 AM PST by VegasVictor

Being a shooting victim doesn’t make you an expert on ending gun violence. But you wouldn’t know that from watching CNN.

It’s been a week since a monster killed 17 people at a Florida high school. The calls for gun control have been reflexive and ambiguous, but the media have found a new mouthpiece — shooting survivors.

“Students seize control of gun debate” blared a MSNBC caption. An organization portraying itself as being made up of students announced a March 24 rally in D.C. and other cities called “March For Our Lives.” Some students say they won’t return to class until gun-control “legislation has been passed.” Videos of shooting survivors calling for gun control have gone viral.

Interviewing shooting survivors makes for compelling television, but it’s a horrible way to conduct a reasoned debate. Experiencing a tragic event doesn’t transform you into an expert, in the same way having a brain injury doesn’t make you a brain surgeon.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; clickbait; florida; guncontrol; guns; media; nra; parkland; secondamendment; snowflakes
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To: VegasVictor

To the Left, being a victim of something — whether real or invented — gives you a moral authority the unvictimized don’t have.


61 posted on 02/21/2018 11:52:32 AM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: Leo58
Some students say they won’t return to class until gun-control “legislation has been passed.”

Fine.

NOT my problem.

62 posted on 02/21/2018 11:52:40 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

The world needs ditch-diggers, too.


63 posted on 02/21/2018 11:53:31 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Would you hire these dweebs to dig ditches?

Personally, I prefer my ditch diggers to show up for work, on time, and sober.

64 posted on 02/21/2018 11:55:02 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Good point.


65 posted on 02/21/2018 11:55:53 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: VegasVictor

they have their gun control measures in the school... guns are not allowed in schools, that is why gunmen go there to kill. we have tried it their way for far too long. now is the time to allow constitutional carry, everywhere.


66 posted on 02/21/2018 12:07:55 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Leo58

Flunk them.

The world still needs bums.


67 posted on 02/21/2018 12:49:03 PM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: VegasVictor

I know this is going to sound terrible but I’m hoping for the next salacious event to happen so this gets kmocked off the news cycle.


68 posted on 02/21/2018 1:04:21 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Leo58

Sigh. They should be suspended.


69 posted on 02/21/2018 1:04:57 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: VegasVictor

So imagine roughly 40x the Florida massacre: That’s Obama land a.k.a Chicago; many times 17 shot/killed on a WEEKEND. I guess since they are black those lives don’t matter s/. Broward County is super white so I guess these kids are
“racis” lol. This whole thing is sooo stupid and I feel so bad for parents and family who lost loved ones as they have to go through the stench of this as they bury their dead.


70 posted on 02/21/2018 1:41:50 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

” I feel more morally superior since I have been shot at numerous times.”

Yeah, I wonder what their stand is on rockets and mortars?


71 posted on 02/21/2018 1:50:19 PM PST by beelzepug (The permanent political class that runs this country is...the great(est) danger we face)
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To: umgud

What do they know of life, from their parents?
What do they know of our Constitution, from a teacher?
What do they know of true gun statistics, from study?
What do they know of debate, from training?
What do they know of God, from a minister?


72 posted on 02/21/2018 3:22:21 PM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: polymuser

Really big ditto.


73 posted on 02/21/2018 3:33:17 PM PST by umgud
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To: VegasVictor

Yeah, I’ll take Constitutional advice from a generation that thinks eating Tide detergent pods is a smart thing to do.

Not.


74 posted on 02/21/2018 3:47:24 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: chris37

These kids are not enemies of freedom; they’re victims, being exploited by enemies of freedom. Keep that distinction clear, for the sake of freedom.


75 posted on 02/21/2018 4:40:36 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

They are weaponized, and they are attempting to attack my freedom.

I do not appreciate it.

I do not sympathize with them, and I do not empathize with them.

Attacking me because you were attacked by someone else makes you my enemy.

I’m sorry, that’s the way it is.


76 posted on 02/21/2018 5:09:02 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: chris37

Good luck with that. I think you’ll do better defeating your enemies with a more subtle touch.


77 posted on 02/21/2018 5:21:11 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
If you REALLY want to make them mad, tell the Lefties that the parents of these students don't love them enough to pull them out of the public schools and start homeschooling them IMMEDIATELY.

The school administrators, the local police and the FBI all made it plain to anyone with eyes to see that they don't care about the children.

Time for parents who love their children to step up to the plate.

78 posted on 02/21/2018 5:39:40 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: chris37
Maybe I missed it, but where exactly was little boss hogg when the shooting took place? High school campuses are pretty big, this victim could have been all the way across campus from where kids were actually being shot at taking a dump at the time.
79 posted on 02/21/2018 5:42:32 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: over3Owithabrain

I don’t doubt for a single second that their anger and grief is real.

I simply think because they are fulfilling a role as tools in an important issue by Leftists who absolutely don’t share their anger and grief, that they diminish the perceived genuineness of those.

But they are being taken advantage of, and have signed on fully, because national attention in a spotlight is a heady thing. It is what it is.


80 posted on 02/21/2018 5:45:37 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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