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

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 2/20/2018 | Victor Joecks

[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.

[chris37]

One thing I am not is subtle.

[rlmorel]

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.

[The Toll]

Well it worked well so far.

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

[Teacher317]

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.

[Teacher317]

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...

[New Jersey Realist]

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

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No, it makes you an expert at ducking.

[familyop]

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

[Eleutheria5]

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

[chris37]

It’s the only thing I can do.

I am a hammer, win or lose.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks VegasVictor.

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[WayneS]

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

[chris37]

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

[GOPJ]

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.

[WayneS]

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.

[chris37]

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”

[Eleutheria5]

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

[chris37]

Ahhh, I hope so.

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

[redcatcherb412]

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.

[Eleutheria5]

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.

[ptsal]

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