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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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1 posted on 02/21/2018 10:31:00 AM PST by VegasVictor
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To: VegasVictor

Being shot at does make you an enemy of freedom apparently.

I’m not a real big fan of enemies of freedom either.


2 posted on 02/21/2018 10:33:12 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: VegasVictor

Some students say they won’t return to class until gun-control “legislation has been passed.”

Wonderful


3 posted on 02/21/2018 10:34:16 AM PST by Leo58 (Those who cheer you today will curse you tomorrow, the only thing that endures is character.)
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To: VegasVictor

I’ve watched these kids and they all sound like they just finished boot camp at a Brady Bunch facility.


4 posted on 02/21/2018 10:37:07 AM PST by umgud
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To: VegasVictor

Trying to remove the rights of free men will result in gun violence.


5 posted on 02/21/2018 10:37:47 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: VegasVictor

Increase the age to buy a weapon to 21 ? Why not increase it and the age to vote to 25 ?


6 posted on 02/21/2018 10:38:43 AM PST by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
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To: Leo58
Some students say they won’t return to class until gun-control “legislation has been passed.”

Well, see, something good does come out of an evil deed.

That ought to reduce the classroom overcrowding and help alleviate a lot of the discipline problems within the public school systems ...

7 posted on 02/21/2018 10:38:43 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: Leo58

They should flunk their classes. Sadly that is not how schools work these days. Coddling is the norm.


8 posted on 02/21/2018 10:39:10 AM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: VegasVictor

good, we need more articles like this.


9 posted on 02/21/2018 10:39:10 AM PST by cowboyusa (Ang)
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To: chris37

Funny, the media never says being a victim of illegal alien crime bestows any special status.


10 posted on 02/21/2018 10:39:10 AM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: Leo58
No sympathy for them, they are on the side of totalitarianism.
11 posted on 02/21/2018 10:39:43 AM PST by cowboyusa (Ang)
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To: VegasVictor

Those protests are well-organized and emerged quickly, complete with media talking points and coverage. Those students have lots of community organizing help coming from somewhere.


12 posted on 02/21/2018 10:40:02 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: VegasVictor

But, they’ll get self-esteem and participation trophies!


13 posted on 02/21/2018 10:42:01 AM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Leo58

Did this happen after previous school shootings? I don’t remember it happening.


14 posted on 02/21/2018 10:42:18 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: VegasVictor

Increase the age to buy a weapon to 21 ? Why not increase it and the age to vote to 25 ? /s to those those from Rio Limboland....
But signs like this should be seen at those so called protests which are nothing more than “democrat” aka pervert rallys.


15 posted on 02/21/2018 10:42:53 AM PST by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
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To: VegasVictor

I was wondering about this myself the last few days. If these kids are claiming moral superiority due to the fact that they were shot at once, I feel more morally superior since I have been shot at numerous times.

Unfortunately, no one is attending my press conference to tout real solutions to the school violence problem, sigh... I wonder why the press won’t give me equal coverage.


16 posted on 02/21/2018 10:43:01 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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They were airing some students getting their drizzle of "fame" and one young twerp had a written screed 9probably fed to him by others to ensure he stayed on topic because he sure didn't seem to have the smarts to contrive it himself) and he mumbled and stuttered and talked about being afraid afraid afraid - did I mention he was afraid?

He started babbling about guilt for __________________ (fill in the blank) and especially for the fact that a kid he thought he "had saved" got shot anyway while leaving the auditorium - not sure what that was about....

He finished up trying to do a Dem/Hitler finish with raised fists and sing-song hollering to help get others wound up.

This is the kind of young idiot CNN thinks should have the vote...so many useful tools and so few "adults" to exploit them all.....

17 posted on 02/21/2018 10:43:16 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: EdnaMode
Did this happen after previous school shootings? I don’t remember it happening.

One of the kids mom is an anti-Trump activist with connections to CNN.

18 posted on 02/21/2018 10:44:36 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: VegasVictor

Being shot at does not make you an expert on ending gun violence. Especially if you crouched in a closet and cried


19 posted on 02/21/2018 10:46:45 AM PST by kjam22
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To: FirstFlaBn

It is funny.

I hear them say “gunned down” all the time.

I never hear them say “illegal aliened down”.


20 posted on 02/21/2018 10:46:51 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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