Guns: how much longer will it take ....

Dear God, you must be huffing.

McGentrix wrote:

By doing this, the person quoted attacked David Hogg viciously, personally, and dishonestly. Then uses his age as though that is a qualification of intelligence. The author has no knowledge of Hogg's knowledge of guns or the Constitution.

The kids are calling for meaningless civil rights violations to be imposed on innocent people for no reason. If they aren't doing it out of ignorance, they are doing it out of malice.

I think the main point of the article is that these kids should just be ignored. I think that's good advice.

Listen to yourself. You're whining.

Why Don't We All Just Ignore David Hogg?

Says he, while speaking compulsively about David Hogg...

HOW BIG IS THE NRA?
GUN GROUP’S MEMBERSHIP MIGHT NOT BE AS POWERFUL AS IT SAYS

BY RYAN SIT ON 3/30/18, Newsweek

Bill Ware, like a lot of children growing up in North Carolina in the 1960s, bonded with his father while shooting a rifle. He was 7 or 8 years old when his father introduced him to firearms.

“He thought—many men of that era thought—What the hell am I gonna do with this kid? I know: I’ll get out the .22,” said the now 59-year-old, a long-haul truck driver living in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with his wife, Debby. She, too, has childhood memories of shooting, her father holding on to her so the blast wouldn't rock her backward. [...]

When Ware was about 13, his father bought him his first gun, a Savage Model 24D .22/.410 combo rifle. Later, he would become the captain of his high school’s rifle team.

“This was the NRA to me, the NRA that supported the BB gun program, the .22 camp, the rifle camp,” he said. “I owe so much to the NRA of that time.”

But Ware no longer recognizes that sportsmanship in today’s NRA, he told Newsweek.

“The NRA is a rabid dog. It is a rogue outfit,” Ware said. “Whatever its purposes are, they are not mine. They do not speak for me.”

As the number of children killed due to gun violence increases, poll after poll shows increasing support for stricter gun legislation among the general American public and the country’s estimated 55 million gun owners specifically. A Quinnipiac poll conducted in the days after February's Parkland, Florida, school shooting—arguably a watershed moment in the movement to end gun violence—showed 97 percent of surveyed gun owners support universal background checks for gun purchases.

Despite those numbers, the National Rifle Association continues to oppose such legislation, [...]

Queries about the NRA’s membership have dogged the gun group for years, but they aren't merely academic or trivial. The gun rights organization is one of the most influential nonprofits in the United States because of both its prolific spending and its core base of gun rights activists. [...]

Kent Hartland, a gun owner from Missouri who started the Facebook group Gun Owners for Responsible Gun Control in 2016, said the NRA was once focused on outdoorsmanship but evolved into a primarily political operation in the 1970s.

"They [the NRA] have gotten this machine in motion that accepts money from the gun manufacturers," said Hartland, 66, a former law enforcement officer in Platte County and analyst for the Defense Department. "Gun manufacturers are very concerned about their future and any kind of gun control. That’s the mark of doom for them.

"They buy these politicians, kicking up millions of dollars per year for gun-friendly, gun-in-every-hand, flood-the-streets-with-guns legislation," Hartland continued. "There’s so much grease going from palm to palm, it’s pretty hard to stop the machine now." [...]

Still, if there are an estimated 55 million gun owners in the U.S., even at 5 million members the NRA would account for less than 10 percent of the gun owning community.

“Let’s say it's 10 million [members],” said Ware, the South Carolinian gun owner. “That’s still a fraction of the gun owners out there.”

Ware, who joined Hartland's Facebook group after the Parkland shooting, said the momentum and the numbers are not on the NRA’s side.

“I got disturbed after Las Vegas. I got disturbed after Parkland. I was feeling like I killed Jaime Guttenberg,” he said, referring to one of the Stoneman Douglas victims. “Gun owners, we killed Jaime Guttenberg by our inactivity.

“We could’ve said no after Columbine. We didn't," Ware continued. "We could have said no after Virginia Tech. We didn’t. Those of us, who up until now guns were in our life but not our life, we can’t continue to be casual about this issue. The next Jaime Guttenberg is on our hands.”

Only firmly rooted legislation will stop the slaughter of the innocent by these weapons. The NRA is a huge part of the problem,

13-Yr-Old Running for Governor as Democrat, Will Ban Semi-Automatic Guns (Details)

Students at Florida high school stage walkout in support of Second Amendment

They walked onto the schools track carrying the American flag and signs that said “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” and “I support the right to bear arms,” the paper reported. Some wore Trump “Make America Great Again” hats and camouflage clothing.

With thanks to MJA – The Addams Activists:

Are we letting the wrong children make our laws?