Zachary Dougherty and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior David Hogg last month in Livingston.Your young and uninformed. Maybe one day you will grow up and know the truth. That is if the schools and others quit trying to brainwash you into becoming a mindless robot.
Dear Jersey kid. Violence comes in many shapes and sizes, and gun violence is just one type. Almost all violence that affects human beings is perpetrated by human beings - sometimes with guns, sometimes with bombs, sometimes with knives, sometimes with biological weapons, sometimes with poison, etc. etc. So, lets address the common denominator - human beings.
What do your classmates believe in? What do they think their purpose in life is? What do they think about the sanctity of life? What do they think about the music, films, and print media that glorify violence, misogyny, drugs, and loveless sex? What do your classmates think about protecting the innocent, including infants and the unborn?
What do your classmates think about the human spirit, and what makes humans violent? Do your classmates think that all human life is sacred, and wonder what allows people to ‘pull the trigger’ and kill? What do we do about this?
Are your classmates aware of how many young people, not much older than yourself have died protecting the freedoms that you and they live under? Have you ever thought about why we have locks and alarm systems for our houses and cars? Why we have police? Why we have to have a military to protect ourselves?
Perhaps with some deep reflection you will come to the conclusion that human beings are flawed, and those who want to hurt others will find ways to do this - irrespective of what we outlaw. Maybe you will understand and agree that guns have saved millions, and that we not only have the right, but also the absolute need to be able to protect ourselves. I am older than you, and I have been blessed with the years God has given me, and I see my life as less valuable than yours - and would fight to protect yours. I pray that you will see truth and reality, and that someday you will be willing to do the same for those who will be the youth when you are not. Think.
There's a good reason for that, kid, as you are illustrating.
The school shooting this time is caused by a complete breakdown of the school system and law enforcement, particularly the Broward County Sheriff’s office. Are the student demonstrators protesting those government entities???
Families, such as they are, haven’t gathered around dinner tables since probably 1978 or so. How did this kid get so out-of-touch so young?
Well, little Zachery. If you bastard kids would stop shooting up the schools and murdering your classmates, we wouldn’t need no conversation at “the dinner table.” ***hole.
However, you'd be more likely to die of influenza (which is only the 10th most likely killer in the US) but at least you'll drown in your own fluids due to medial insouciance vs having a chance with a gun in your hand.
Shut up Zachary, indoctrinated, idiotic little boy.
You think you know more than The Founding Fathers?
The Victorians were right; children should be seen and not heard!
Best argument for 2A yet was a reminder to me that at the time 2A became guaranteed in America, the citizen’s weapons were as every bit as proficient, efficient and deadly, as those of the US government. Weapons were expected to be just as powerful as any threat might produce.
Imposing on the 2A, by slowly introducing over time incremental intrusions against any citizen’s weapon, against it’s style, shape, load, power, adjustment, etc., only reduces the safety of the citizen, while government weaponry increases in power features, leaving them at the mercy of rogues with bigger and better.
We’re getting rolled.
No snot-nosed faggot from Jersey has any say in my God-given rights.
How time flies — Wasn’t it just two months or so ago that we were trying to figure out what could be done to keep them from eating Tide Pods?
Um, fekoff kid.
16 is a little old to be a JHS student. Taught JHS for 36 years. Had maybe 2 16 year olds.
Yes, it would be nice if parents explained the purpose of the 2nd Amendment to their teenage children.
The 2nd Amendment protects the entire "free world" from totalitarian governments.
Well, when Zachery comes of age, he’ll see a great majority of New Right voters in the nation around him. If he holds on to that position, he’ll be pretty lonely. Word from some New Right (alt-lite or whatever) media leaders on a tsunami of messages they’ve received from much younger peers, some as young as ten.
They’re different. They don’t trust the non-analytical adults. They analyze and form their own opinions and rebel quietly, between each other. They’re much more educated, and they’re flying their opinions right under their teachers’ and parents’ noses.
And we’ll note that Zachery is in New Jersey, of course.
So the kid is intellectually impaired/slow/retarded? By 16 I was half way through high school, not still stuck in junior high.
Zachary Dougherty and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior David Hogg last month in Livingston.