You're certainly entitled to it. Personally, I don't see gun control as
Demanding anything but change. Through peaceful protest, attempting to put pressure on politicians, and setting up to hopefully push for change at the ballot box. In our country that is simply pushing for change. Pushing for a national consensus that some weapons and some accessories are only for maximizing killing power. Most of us don't think ordinary citizens should be allowed to own artillery pieces, for example. So there is a consensus in general about lines in private ownership of weapons. A political movement about where that line should be is in no way analogous to breaking into a home and taking property.
It has always been the right wing pro gun side of the debate that acts more like sheep. In part because of the FOX monopoly of the right wing media. Some message takes hold in the right wing echo chamber, and the pro gun set just repeats it. Over and over. The notion that gun control for most of its proponents is the same as gun ban. It isn't. The "thoughts and prayers" ridiculousness. The "it's too soon to politicize it" by the same people who instantly jump on any violent act to push anti immigration politics. These are the sheep in this discussion.
Whatever you think of these kids and their views, they decided at a grass roots level that they weren't going to let the same old responses to mass shootings prevail. It started with HS kids who experienced the terror and the loss of the shooting. And kids around the country responded with their support. They refused to let the national discourse go the way it's always gone. You may not agree with them, but your haughty dismissiveness of their passion is off putting to say the least.
It is ok to disagree without disrespecting. Something a lot of us on this board might want to remember.
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Posted: 03/25/2018 at 12:49PM