Posted on 03/29/2018 3:39:49 AM PDT by servo1969
As Parkland gun control activists and their surrogates mock the idea of arming teachers, march for gun bans in D.C., and call for new gun controls via Twitter, they risk driving Americans toward the Second Amendment instead of away from it.
They run this risk via their in-your-face gun control hubris, especially when that hubris is directed toward docile actors.
For example, on Monday Rep. Steve King (R-IA) addressed Parkland students who want to raise the minimum age for gun purchases by asking, “If you are a teenager & believe you won’t be responsible enough to own a gun until 21, why should you vote before 21?” That is a reasonable question when one considers that voting and owning guns are both constitutional rights. Yet the responses to his question varied between things too vulgar to print and pronouncements that his political career is over–that he is a pawn of the NRA and is going to be voted out office.
Or consider David Hogg, one of the most frequent spokesmen for Parkland gun control activists. He put out a PSA one week before the student march for gun control and asked, “What if our politicians weren’t the bitch of the NRA?” And it is not just the way he talks about the NRA, although that runs the risk of motivating the group’s five million-plus members to show up and vote. It is also the way he appears to set himself apart from other Americans in general.
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How do they figure that they can succeed at getting illegal aliens to give up their illegal firearms?
Tyrants use the actions of criminals to punish the innocent.
Before I can ever listen to a thing. Sheriff Scott Israel and the police remind me, that I cannot trust the government to protect me.
This is for David Hogg! Up yours, punk!
People are coming to the realization that those who eat laundry detergent don’t really have good ideas to offer.
At's my boy!!!
Bingo!
How can they be 'responsible' enough to kill another human being without their parents finding out they just lost a grandchild?
I signed up me an my wife last week. Three year membership.
His wrist is thicker than David Hogg’s neck.
Hogg is the new poster boy for Planned Parenthood
Sending the government in with “weapons of war” to takeaway my supposed “weapons of war” will only start a war over tyranny which is why the second amendment was created in the first place.
These demonstrations by “wet behind the ears” students along with, some feeble old bastard, former Supreme Court justice looking to repeal the second amendment are beneficial to the pubbies to retain control of the House come November. If “repeal” of the 2nd amendment and confiscation of firearms doesn’t get Americans motivated nothing will.
There is no explicit (or even very implicit) “right to vote” in the US Constittution. The 10th Amendment and the “equal protection” clause in the 14th get close.
The privilege of voting is reserved to the states, not delegated to the Feds.
Bump
Nailed it.
Headline: "Hawkins: Parkland Gun Control Activists Driving Americans Toward 2nd Amendment"
Article: "As Parkland gun control activists and their surrogates mock the idea of arming teachers, march for gun bans in D.C., and call for new gun controls via Twitter, they risk driving Americans toward the Second Amendment instead of away from it."
Key word is "risk." Not exactly "fact."
They are doing this more and more. Trying to imitate the Leftist News?
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