Massacre survivor calls for spring break boycotts in Florida

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[lastchance]

Being in front of cameras.

[OldMissileer]

David Miles Hogg (age 17) is listed at 7819 Nw 112th Way Parkland, FL and is affiliated with the Democratic Party. He is a white, non hispanic male registered to vote in Broward County, Florida.

How in the wide world of sports can he be a registered voter when he is only 17 years old?

[meyer]

Good question - 17 year old is not eligible to vote. I would argue that an 18 year old might not be ripe to make such decisions either.

[petitfour]

I registered to vote when I was 17 because my teacher offered us extra credit if we registered. The next election was not until I turned 18, so they said it was ok.

[piasa]

He’s a Democrat... he’ll still be voting at the ripe old wormy age of 222 as well.

[OldMissileer]

I registered to vote when I was 17 because my teacher offered us extra credit if we registered. The next election was not until I turned 18, so they said it was ok.

1976. I turned 18 very early September and four days later I was flying to San Antonio, TX for Air Force Basic Training. It had to see my Basic Training Squadron Commander to register and apply for an absentee ballot. I received my ballot just in time to vote just as I arrived for my first phase of Technical School at Wichita Falls, TX.

They would not let me register before I turned 18.

[petitfour]

I was in Mississippi.

[Ohioan]

There is a strong tactical advantage in demanding that the enemies of individual liberty, personal responsibility, etc., stop leaving the most significant psychological factors, totally out of the conversation. The psychological dynamics involved in Switzerland vs. Chicago, for example.

For another, the general benefit of allowing adolescents to have instinctive aspirations--rather than being reprogrammed by the PC fanatics (Suicidal Rage vs. "Something Of Value").

Rather than scream at youthful ignorance of the most important considerations, we need to welcome an educational opportunity, while demonstrating what really needs to be demonstrated in a way that outclasses the idiotic talking heads in the media, and the gutless Corporate managers now rushing to distance themselves from an organization that has taught gun safety for well over a century!