MARCH FOR OUR LIVES .

David Hogg leads a new movement
on Gun Control . Will Congress abide ?

I wanted to put something out regarding the MARCH FOR OUR LIVES , which was last month , but as big as the student  Demonstrators were  that flooded streets across the globe in public protests on Saturday March 24th . The biggest question I had was if their impact was truly felt . I think it was brave to see our (1)>>younger generation make a statement regarding gun violence . While it looked all so good . However there are problems , the student movement missed .  WhileThey are right to demand action. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public health database, when it comes to causes of deaths in US adolescents ages 15 to 19, firearms are an alarmingly common contributor. Over at PWC, Alex Gaffney crunched the data to see exactly how many high schoolers are dying by guns. He found a staggering 2,300 deaths per year on average in the period 2010 to 2016. What is even worse , missed by the mainstream media was that in  2004 a report by the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Education found that over two-thirds of students who used guns in violent acts at school got those guns from their own home or that of a relative. That’s why many states have some sort of (2)>> child access prevention laws to encourage the safe storage of firearms and make adults liable if children get access to guns. Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia do not. Under Kentucky law there is no requirement for secure storage of weapons, and adults are liable only if they “recklessly provide a handgun” to a minor they think might use it illegally.  The ultimate solution to school shootings is to restrict the numbers of available guns. However, in today’s environment that is highly unlikely. A reasonable solution, therefore, is a campaign to require that guns be secured in a locked “safe” away from ammunition and addled adolescents.This will require education and legislation to make it a reality. But how many more school shooting deaths must our country endure before we offer more than thoughts and prayers for the victims?
David Hogg .

While gun violence in America has been more like  pandemic plague . The idea that an "an anti-gun" movement can take shape here in America . Will it be like a Black Lives Matter , or Occupy Wall Street . What can be said about these recent movements is that they have come and gone .  (3)>>Enter David Hogg a Parkland survivor has chosen to insert himself into an important national policy debate. For the vary start there was a lot social media "conspiracy theories" on Hogg , the first and foremost  is that he was a crisis actor plant. Young Mr. Hogg's sudden rise reminds us of that cult 1960's film classic, "Wild In The Streets."  In case you don't remember, were too young, or not yet born...  Since the multiple murders at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Hogg has emerged as a sort of Schrödinger’s Pundit, whose status within the debate sits contingent upon his critics’ willingness to push back. The game being played with his testimony — by adults, not by Hogg himself. While Hogg himself a survivor , he now appears to have become a pawn of the gun debate.  On the day of March for Our Lives, Hogg opened (4)>>his speech with a common theme: "I’m going to start off by putting this price tag right here as a reminder for you guys to know how much Marco Rubio took for every student's life in Florida.” He also said “revolution” for stricter gun laws and called for politicians who are supported by the National Rifle Association to get their “resumes ready”. The right-wing media was ready for their attack , Far right sites, such as Breitbart and InfoWars, claimed Mr Hogg’s decision to finish his speech by triumphantly raising his hand in the air was reminiscent of Hitler’s Nazi salute. Alex Jones, who is the founder of InfoWars and has been dubbed America’s leading conspiracy theorist, attacked the rally as a “Hitler Youth invasion” and branded Mr Hogg  "the chief propagandist in the left-wing fascist "Hitler Youth’ army.” While the derogatory remarks against Hogg and Emma González by the Conservative - Republican media is outrageous , over defending the NRA stance , but Hogg is just as outrageous , Appearing on CNN's "New Day," Hogg said that gun ownership should not be a right in the United States and instead should be a privilege. Hogg launched into a tirade in which he smeared the NRA. "Let us [the NRA] sell you more guns at an even younger age, put more people at risk, scare more people, cause more violence, kill more people, and sell more guns," Hogg said.
Donald Trump to Congress  " Your afraid of the NRA".

AS the national gun debate rattled all over again it obvious that President Trump was caught in the middle . The Trump policy has been on record for this support of the NRA . Donald Trump said speaking at  CPAC to promote the National Rifle Association’s proposal to arm teachers in the wake of the latest school semi-automatic rifle mass shooting. Yes , the answer is MORE GUNS . The irrationality of this is two fold , arming school teachers nationwide will set up a monopoly of gun manufacturers that would make a quick buck selling firearms to school districts , would also create re-certificating teachers who would Cary a weapon to work  . But it just will not end there . Teachers have already have more on their plate for example , a teachers job is to teach and not be a police at the school , or handle weapons in case of a "active shooter" . Crazy as it is President Trump at a televised White House meeting  suggested that Republican Sen. Pat Toomey (Pa.) (5)>>was afraid of the National Rifle Association (NRA), seeming to borrow a talking point from Democrats. During the meeting, Trump asked Toomey and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) if they included raising the age limit for some gun purchases in the gun control bill they co-sponsored.“We didn’t address that, Mr. President,” Toomey said.“You know why? Because you’re afraid of the NRA,” Trump replied with a chuckle. “It’s a big issue right now. A lot of people are talking about it.”“A lot of people are afraid of that issue — raising the age for that weapon to 21.”Trump’s reiteration of support for raising the age for purchasing rifles shakes up the debate in the Senate.“You can’t buy a handgun at 18, 19 or 20 — you have to wait until you’re 21 but you can buy the gun, the weapon used in this horrible shooting at 18,” he said.Senate Republicans said on Tuesday and Wednesday that there were not enough votes to raise the age threshold to 21.In the House, many Democrats want to reinstate an assault weapons ban that expired more than a decade ago.
But House Republican leaders believe it's up to the Senate to take the next steps, according to a top House GOP aide, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss legislative strategy. President Trump went to a Florida hospital and met with victims of school shooting. Later he

met with law enforcement officials. The president, speaking to reporters at Broward Health North Hospital, confirmed that he had seen victims who were recovering -- including a girl who had suffered four bullet wounds -- and praised doctors' swift work. "The job they've done is incredible and I want to congratulate you," the president said as he shook one doctor's hand. The Wednesday shooting left 17 people dead, leaving no one in the school    He was on a previously scheduled trip to his hotel in Florida for the weekend. About speaking with victims he said: "It’s sad something like that could happen.” Later Trump made the effort to talk to the students and held a televised “listening session” today to discuss ways to keep schools safe following last week’s shooting in Parkland, Florida, when 17 people were killed, allegedly by 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz, who purchased his AR-15 legally, though he is not old enough to buy a handgun in the state. Donald Trump raised eyebrows when he talked about arming teachers with guns. Among those attending were high school students sick of  the “thoughts and prayers” that came their way after last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, same as  the “thoughts and prayers” for the (6)>>victims at Sandy Hook – and victims of the mass shooting at Columbine in Denver, which happened before the Parkland students were born.  Some of today’s participants were parents who lost children in both of those massacres, as well as Vice President Mike Pence and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. But by far the most impactful speaker was Andrew Pollack whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow was among those murdered.“My daughter has no voice, she was murdered last week, and she was taken from us – shot nine times on the third floor,” Pollack said."We as country failed our children,” Pollack savaged. “This shouldn’t happen. We go to an airport, I can’t get on plane with a bottle of water, but we leave it to some animal to walk into a school and shoot our children. It’s not right!”“We need to come together as a country and work on what’s important. And that’s protecting our children in the schools. That’s the only thing that matters right now.”“We protect airports. We protect concerts, stadiums, embassies,” Pollack noted. “The Department of Education that I walked into today, that has a security guard in the elevator – how do you think that makes me feel?! In the elevator, they have a security guard!”“I’m very angry that this happened. Because it keeps happening. 9/11 happened once — and they fixed everything. How many children have to get shot?…It should have been one school shooting and we should have fixed it. And I’m pissed because my daughter, I’m not going to see again…King David Cemetery, that’s where I go to see my kid now.”  The Stoneman Douglas students experienced a horrific trauma. No one can deny their grief or blame them for being impassioned. And allowance has to be made for the fact that they are teenagers, who universally believe that they know better than their hapless elders

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(1)>>younger generation make a statement regarding gun violence . The US is unique in two key — and related — ways when it comes to guns: It has way more gun deaths than other developed nations, and it has far higher levels of gun ownership than any other country in the world.The US has nearly six times the gun homicide rate of Canada, more than seven times that of Sweden, and nearly 16 times that of Germany, according to United Nations data compiled by the Guardian. (These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate, which includes non-gun deaths, than other developed nations.) The US also has by far the highest number of privately owned guns in the world. Estimated in 2007, the number of civilian-owned firearms in the US was 88.8 guns per 100 people, meaning there was almost one privately owned gun per American and more than one per American adult. The world’s second-ranked country was Yemen, a quasi-failed state torn by civil war, where there were 54.8 guns per 100 people.(2)>> child access prevention laws.  The "Keep out of reach of Children" should be on every gun label , but CAP laws address this problem and encourage the safe storage of firearms by imposing liability on adults who allow children to have unsupervised access to guns. Researchers have found that millions of children live in homes with easily accessible firearms. Approximately one third of handguns are kept loaded and unlocked, and most children know where their parents keep their guns — even if their parents think otherwise. In a 2006 study, 73% of children under age 10 living in homes with guns reported knowing the location of their parents’ firearms, and 36% admitted they had handled the weapons. These reports directly contradicted 39% of parents who reported that their children did not know the storage location of household guns and 22% of parents who claimed that their children had never handled a household gun. (3)>>Enter David Hogg . In a recent interview, shown below, a foul-mouthed Hogg, a student at the Parkland school shooting in Florida, says that gun owners and the NRA are “pathetic f##kers who want to keep killing our children” and adds, “They could have blood from children splattered all over their faces and they wouldn’t take action, because they all still see those dollar signs.”David Hogg’s profanity-laced rant was so obnoxious, arrogant and deranged that YouTube systematically censored all the profanity-laced David Hogg videos in order to protect his public image. (Yes, YouTube is now running interference for David Hogg, making sure his public image is squeaky clean while he ravages gun owners with the most deranged, foul-mouth language imaginable.) While Hogg's perseverance is without bounds for the movement , he misses the point that "children are killing children" with legal guns . (4)>>his speech with a common theme. David Hogg's speech that he affixed a price tag on the microphone to symbolize how much National Rifle Association money Sen. Marco Rubio took for the lives of students in Florida. Then there were the many signs carried by protesters that targeted Rubio. One, captured by the Washington Free Beacon‘s Stephen Gutowksi, called Rubio a “kid killer” and “NRA B****,” mocked his religious beliefs, and another accused him of having blood on his hands. In a video interview with an outfit called The Outline, David Hogg said that the NRA and its supporters "want to keep killing our children." Not that they inadvertently enable people who carry out school shootings via misconceived policy, but they themselves kill children and want to keep doing it.(5)>>was afraid of the National Rifle Association (NRA), seeming to borrow a talking point from Democrats. The NRA, now up over 5 million members, donates about $1 million a year to politicians.. President Trump, a day later, aligned himself even more closely with the National Rifle Association on the issue of teachers with guns and beefing up school security.So much so, they seemed, at times, to be reading from the same script.Republicans who control Congress aren't so sure. They prefer to consider only modest changes to firearms limits in response to the mass shooting at a Florida high school.(6)>>victims at Sandy Hook – and victims of the mass shooting at Columbine in Denver, which happened before the Parkland students were born. Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary School, These shootings took place with legal weapons owned by third part or parent .The experiment, which took place years ago, suggests what some clinical studies have shown: Teenagers who claim to understand the danger of guns and say they would do the right thing if they found one are in fact so seduced by the sight of a gun that they cannot resist the urge to touch it.Even warning and educating kids about the danger of guns can have absolutely no effect on their behavior, an ABCNEWS investigation showed. One teenager whose friend was recently killed in a shooting didn't even hesitate before grabbing a gun.