On that same note, what makes you an expert on the subject matter? I'm not trolling you, but there are a lot of people, probably smarter than you or I, that believe leaving things as the status quo isn't working. I don't buy into the argument that anyone who suggests looking at stricter gun regulations or closing loopholes in the current ones are automatically wanting to repeal the 2nd amendment. I think that is just a red herring. And conducting themselves disgracefully? They are kids and young adults. Where is your outrage over how the POTUS has been conducting himself?
When did I say that I was an expert? What I said is that being a victim doesn't automatically make someone an expert. What I am, is a person that has done a bit of study on the intent of the 2nd Amendment and the real statistics of violent crime and gun related homicides in this country. What I am, is a law abiding citizen with an informed opinion that is supported by what I believe to be some pretty compelling evidence. I never positioned myself as an expert. The press and the Democrat party, which are essentially one and the same, have positioned these kids as experts. Experts whose victim status gives them authority on the subject and as a result, anyone who questions their ideas is "bullying children" or some other such nonsense.
The "status quo not working" is not an argument. While every person who suggests stricter gun regulation doesn't automatically want to abolish the second amendment, there are a lot of people who do. Powerful people with a lot of money that are paying for and organizing these very "protests". People that have had an anti-gun agenda for many years. They aren't reacting to a recent tragedy and trying to solve a problem, they are using the recent tragedy to pull on people's heart strings and get them to agree to things that they wouldn't have agreed to in years past. Furthermore, you don't have to repeal the 2nd amendment in order to infringe upon it and render it ineffective.....and in my opinion, that is exactly what a lot of these proposed solutions will do.
Yes these kids are conducting themselves disgracefully. If you haven't done so I urge you to watch some of their speeches interviews and conversations. During which, they have blamed, slandered and besmirched several individuals, groups of people, and organisations. They have attributed motive to people that they don't know, cursed and mocked them. They have asserted that these people are responsible for the shootings, don't care about the kids, want more kids to die, etc, etc, etc. As for Trumps conduct I urge you to discuss that in one of the many Trump related threads as I have no desire to switch the topic of this conversation from the students to someone that has nothing to do with them.
