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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 doesnt make you an expert on ending gun violence. But you wouldnt know that from watching CNN.
Its 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 wont 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 its a horrible way to conduct a reasoned debate. Experiencing a tragic event doesnt transform you into an expert, in the same way having a brain injury doesnt 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
My Guns aren’t “violent”, unless there is something going on in my Gun Safe that I’m unaware of.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:47:03 AM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
To: VegasVictor
“Interviewing shooting survivors makes for compelling television, but its a horrible way to conduct a reasoned debate”
Silly author. Reasoned debate is not on the liberal agenda.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:47:26 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
To: VegasVictor
I saw that kid on TV yesterday saying, 'You haven't looked down the barrel of an AR-15! We have!'
Guess what, kid - You don't know what I or anyone else have been through.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:48:00 AM PST
by
real saxophonist
( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
To: VegasVictor
Being shot at should teach you that the only way to end it is to shoot back with a Bigger Gun.
To: VegasVictor
All I think about this is the Nazi Youth beating up Jews and the German People applauding it.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:49:32 AM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
To: Lurkinanloomin
“Trying to remove the rights of free men will result in gun violence.”
Don’t know about you all. But I am really starting to lose my patience with these people.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:50:02 AM PST
by
Luke21
To: VegasVictor
Being shot at doesnt make you an expert on ending gun violence No but it can make you a useful idiot and probably rich too.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:50:29 AM PST
by
DungeonMaster
(There is nothing new under the sun.)
To: Leo58
Some students say they wont return to class until gun-control legislation has been passed.Might be seen as a positive on their college applications.
To: Lurkinanloomin
Is extermination of progressive tyrants gun violence?
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:52:12 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
To: FirstFlaBn
Or a call to do something.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:53:32 AM PST
by
ealgeone
To: VegasVictor
The severely immature (of all ages) are blind to the reality that they are being manipulated. You can show them the CNN crisis hire (little mister Hogg, son of an FBI G-man) pretending to be a student at the school and the immature mind ignores it to prevent erosion to their agenda, well, the agenda these baby minds have bought into.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:54:49 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: 1Old Pro
That ‘kid’ is not even a student at the high school of the shooting.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:55:49 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: VegasVictor
I’ve been shot at quite a few times. The fact that I’m still alive is testimony to the fact that it helps to be able to return fire.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:56:06 AM PST
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: mosesdapoet
To: real saxophonist
Amen buddy! Some of us have “looked down the barrel” of things a helluva lot more deadly than an AR. An RPG or 12-7 round whizzing by your head never fails to get your undivided attention.
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:00:19 AM PST
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: Leo58
They can go to alternative school then.
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:00:41 AM PST
by
ichabod1
(People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Being shot at doesnt make you an expert on ending gun violence But wait. It made Diane Feinstein an expert.
Right?
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:01:06 AM PST
by
bagster
(Even bad men love their mamas.)
To: BlueLancer
That ought to reduce the classroom overcrowding and help alleviate a lot of the discipline problems within the public school systems ...And lower school taxes as we can reduce the number of teachers and administrators.
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:01:58 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: madison10
They will now get better than straight A’s. Some may even get AAA’s
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:04:31 AM PST
by
Glad2bnuts
(If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
To: umgud
Young, dumb and stupid on parade.
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:06:22 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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