Posted on 08/08/2019 5:56:07 AM PDT by Puppage
(WTNH) — After this weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, gun control is back on the national agenda. There is a vigil scheduled in Newtown Thursday night. On Wednesday, the brother of a Sandy Hook victim was part of a CNN Town Hall.
The young man we’re talking about is JT Lewis. His brother was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, but JT is now running for state senate as a pro-second amendment Republican.
JT was alongside shooting survivors and other families who have been touched by gun violence. Plenty of people there were calling for more gun control laws.
For Lewis, the answer lies in a better mental health system, more vigilant teachers and peers, and his signature issue- making schools more physically secure. Last night, he went back and forth with a survivor of a different school shooting, the one in Parkland, Florida, about how best to prevent future shootings.
“Now I tell you, after Sandy Hook, all the schools in our town of Newtown implemented guards and police and we had cameras – my high school had 400 cameras. We have doors that lock from the inside, very important simple things. They’re not doing it for show, they’re doing it because it works,” JT explains.
JT’s perspective is that schools and the mental health system failed to identify and help the Sandy Hook shooter when he was young. He talked about a story that shooter wrote as a kid that was all about children being killed by someone with a semi-automatic rifle.
Lewis himself is a 19 year-old student at UConn. He’s also a kicker on the football team. He plans to challenge State Senator Tony Hwang in a Republican primary next year. In his hometown of Newtown, there will be a vigil Thursday ngiht at the United Methodist Church hosted by Connecticut Against Gun Violence.
The press release says they will be demanding action in response to the latest mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton.
From my home state.
Mine, too.
Gee, I must have missed this in the Hartford Courant. Oh wait, I haven’t subscribed to the Courant since 1994.
Did he mention the numbers of dead are directly proportional to being in a gun free zone?
Schools are out of control. Teachers are teaching 2 mommies and 2 daddies.
I don’t think i trust those teachers to make good decisions, they clearly cant get the first 5 minutes of chromisome 101.
The only answer is to return to black and white, right and wrong.
God established this and it is the pnly solution. It doesn’t make flashy media bites and its much less expensive.
Moral relativism is literally killing as we speak.
Our nation was not created to function without a blanket of God given morality.
SH had cameras and they didn’t stop a thing.
No, he doesn’t get it. The discussion (CNN, of course) should not be about gun control but about mental illness. Some wacked out angry person stabbed several people yesterday. The nut didn’t use guns but knives. So, where’s CNN’s outcry for knife control? Ban knives!!!! Surely, AOC is holding a protest march in front of Kroger’s demanding they stop selling evil knives. Nope. It’s crickets.
He’s calling for a “better mental health system.”
“For Lewis, the answer lies in a better mental health system, more vigilant teachers and peers, and his signature issue- making schools more physically secure.”
In all due respect to Mr. Lewis, those ‘answers’ might sound good, but the reality is this is a spiritual problem and unless and until this country has a spiritual revival in a big way, nothing meaningful will change.
Public schools are little more than liberal indoctrination centers, pushing anti-American; anti-Christian values, along with emphasis on all things lgbtq.
Most ‘teachers’ would sooner abort your kid than teach them.
And in the age of obamacare as the AMA has also gone ultra-PC, you are going to trust them to decide what is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ mental health?
Homeschool, Mr. Lewis. And returning the nation to worshipping the one true God.
He must have hated his brother. /Democrat response
The kid went into a CNN zone and spoke about mental health. I'm confused as to your objection.
THey should have had that little Hogg on the show too:-)
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