The other day I had a thought: following the horrific Valentine’s Day massacre at Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida, why have we heard next to nothing from the parents of the victims?
Starting with CNN, the mainstream media has been happy to parade around a number of students calling for gun control in the wake of the massacre – so why haven’t we heard from the parents? Could it be because they do not support more gun control (which is unquestionably the case of one Trump supporter who lost his daughter in the massacre – and was mocked by the Left for it). That aforementioned father hasn’t been asked to appear on CNN, and you can probably guess why.
The survivors calling for gun control aren’t doing so because this shooting woke them up to the issue. They’re calling for gun control because they already supported it – and now have a tragedy to exploit. And it worked – as those students have each racked up hundreds of thousands of Twitter follows for doing little more than appearing on television to demand politicians do “something,” while rejecting an offer to meet with President Trump.
If you wanted policy change, influencing the President would be a great place to start, don’t you think? They couldn’t make it more obvious that they’re not fighting “for the children,” but against the Right. Just take the example of one recent tweet from David Hogg, one of the survivors calling for gun control. You may know him as the student whose father is a former FBI agent.
FedEx chairman is Fred Smith. Apparently he's a huge republican donor. #BoycottFedEx
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) February 24, 2018
He didn’t seem to care about Smith’s policy on guns, which he makes no mention of, but the fact that he’s a “Republican.”
Here’s another particularly absurd comment of his:
Florida survivor defends officer who did not enter shooting scene: Who wants to go down the barrel of an AR-15? https://t.co/V9gO1w15ZP pic.twitter.com/hTdBWsgXTM
— The Hill (@thehill) February 25, 2018
The Los Angeles Times also has a recording of Hogg calling for gun control while Nikolas Cruz was shooting up his school. If that doesn’t show that Hogg was severely anti-gun from the start, I don’t know what does.
Perhaps the most disturbing behavior from student survivors like Hogg has been their apparent enthusiasm about 17 of their classmates being slaughtered. Just take a look at some other students dancing in celebration before appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres show:
https://twitter.com/EllenD_world/status/966819914190385160
And another, as they were ecstatic just a few days after their friends were massacred.
Ask yourself: if you had no idea whom these students were, what would you think they were going on TV to discuss if you saw only those videos and photos?
My last guess would be to discuss a massacre they had witnessed. I guess the instant-celebrity status has helped them cope.
What do you think of this? Is it proper to behave this way after a massacre? Tell us what you think below!
