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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: Eleutheria5

One thing I am not is subtle.


81 posted on 02/21/2018 5:55:22 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Exactly. Remember, the majority of these people driving this from behind think Saul Alinsky is a fine fellow.

To THOSE types of people, this is time to grab these teenagers with both hands, fill their heads with leftist tripe, and put them in front of cameras that are flocking to them.

The important thing to remember about these people exploiting these kids is:

To them, fixing the issue is not the goal. They want to inflame the issue. They WANT it to remain "unfixed". That is Alinsky 101.

82 posted on 02/21/2018 5:55:50 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: VegasVictor

Well it worked well so far.

Next school shooting CNN will have the kids stand on the victims corpses for their interviews.


83 posted on 02/21/2018 6:03:38 PM PST by The Toll
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To: mosesdapoet
Increase the age to buy a weapon to 21 ? Why not increase it and the age to vote to 25 ?

Many more students die from texting and driving. We should increase the age for smart phones to 23.

84 posted on 02/21/2018 6:10:41 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Kickass Conservative
My Guns aren’t “violent”, unless there is something going on in my Gun Safe that I’m unaware of.

The First Rule of Firearms Fight Club is that you do not talk about Firearms Fight Club.
The Second Rule of...

85 posted on 02/21/2018 6:15:55 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: VegasVictor

Being a shooting victim doesn’t make you an expert on ending gun violence


No, it makes you an expert at ducking.


86 posted on 02/21/2018 6:46:09 PM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: VegasVictor

“Gun violence?” Editors and journalists are using more alien terminology now. Looks like propaganda from old Europe.


87 posted on 02/21/2018 9:17:54 PM PST by familyop (President Trump said that we're all important, so let's do something!)
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To: chris37

No argument there. But it’s not a winning strategy in this instance.


88 posted on 02/22/2018 12:10:16 AM 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

It’s the only thing I can do.

I am a hammer, win or lose.


89 posted on 02/22/2018 9:05:39 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; BTerclinger; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks VegasVictor.
90 posted on 02/22/2018 9:58:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: chris37

I’ve been shot at. I’m pretty sure I am not an enemy of freedom.


91 posted on 02/22/2018 10:26:03 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS

I can only assume that you’re not an expert on ending gun violence either.


92 posted on 02/22/2018 10:41:07 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: VegasVictor

True. CNN should be condemned for ‘never letting a crisis go to waste’... and this time on the backs of grieving students and their heartbroken parents.


93 posted on 02/22/2018 10:55:24 AM PST by GOPJ (The 'dead vote' is a byproduct of fraud that votes the people who don't show up.)
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To: chris37

Probably not. Of course, I don’t even think there is such a thing as “gun violence”. There is just violence. There is criminal violence, and there is violence engaged in for self-defense, but a gun is not capable of engaging in violence.

“Gun-Free Zones” are seldom gun-free - and they are never free.


94 posted on 02/22/2018 11:06:15 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS

All true!

My post in this thread simply refer to its title-

“Being shot at doesn’t make you an expert on ending gun violence”


95 posted on 02/22/2018 11:13:00 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: chris37

Better to leave Trump do the talking, then. He’s a great screw driver. When he screws ‘em, they’re screwed.


96 posted on 02/22/2018 2:25:21 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

Ahhh, I hope so.

I know one thing for certain, he is smarter than me.


97 posted on 02/22/2018 2:31:12 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: New Jersey Realist
Being a shooting victim doesn’t make you an expert on ending gun violence No, it makes you an expert at ducking.

If you are a shooting 'victim' then you did not duck fast enough.

98 posted on 02/22/2018 2:37:40 PM PST by redcatcherb412 (Emerged intact.)
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To: chris37

Smarter than me, too. I see and understand what he’s doing, and I’m loving it, but I couldn’t do that. It’s a combination of moxy and strategic thinking and street smarts on an advanced level. We’re watching parts of the “art of the deal” in action that he never wrote down. My hero.


99 posted on 02/22/2018 2:37:55 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: VegasVictor

Being shot does make you an expert on identifying dangerous situations.


100 posted on 02/22/2018 6:43:31 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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