Laura Ingraham is mocking a Parkland survivor for struggling to get into college (user search)

LOL It's not just Laura Ingraham. Most people on my facebook list are doing this LOL Men and women of all ages.

Is this what you people do in Trumpland? Mock a kid (who survived a school massacre) who is only fighting for the right of his fellow students to attend school without fearing for their lives? Besides being extremely pathetic and f**ked up, it reeks of insecurity.

He's a little left wing weasel who craves attention and has a foul mouth. He isn't old enough to vote, isn't old enough to drink, isn't old enough to "buy a gun" and is irrelevant. I'm sorry. The number one thing I keep hearing from my fellow thirty-somethings is "Why do we care what the kids think?"

This is a truism.

http://www.hsrtx.org/

Do you care what those kids think?

The generation that was led to the slaughter in Vietnam was David Hogg's age, and thirty-somethings didn't care what they thought either. They couldn't vote, either; not until they were 21.

Yes, David Hogg comes of as a liberal snot-nose. I was young and snot-nosed once as well, but I registered to vote on my 18th birthday. He'll be voting in 2020, as will many of the Parkland kids.

While I'm not enamored of the opinions of the David Hogg's of the world, or of the Lebron James' of the World, they are entitled to speak them, and it's intellectually dishonest of a pundit to begrudge these folks their podiums. Ingraham has 30 minutes a night to pontificate, and she has no real special qualifications to do so. David Hogg's argument is based on emotional reasoning, but please don't tell me that FOX News isn't beyond making emotional appeals to defy logic when it suits them.

Instead of telling folks who've cut into the allotment of national media attention without the permission of pundits to shut up and do what they do, why don't folks who disagree with these folks do the hard work of convincing people that David Hogg is wrong and they are right as far as the 2nd Amendment goes. David Hogg has the emotion of the moment; 2nd Amendment activists have the intent of the Framers, the wording of the 2nd Amendment itself, and the idea that the 2nd Amendment is about a fundamental Constitutional Right. No one seems to want to do the work of convincing folks who disagree with them that their point of view is right. Perhaps that fact is somewhat behind the polarized politics we have today.

Anti gun control Advocates do not, repeat do not have the intent of the framers on their side. Sorry FB, but the whole concept that the 2nd Amendment applies to individual gun rights is a very very recent Construction from so-called originalist intent calendar boy justice Scalia. Now whether one could argue that it should be expanded to that point, and then shut up ever talking about legislating From the Bench or creating the law arrived in interpreting it, is one's own choice. But don't miss appropriate the framers in this debate.

Actually, gun rights advocates do have the founders on their side. Read the Federalist Papers.

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