Mass shootings

[Belsnickel]

(02-19-2018, 11:54 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: So is anyone going to address why the media is propping up these children while they are in the middle of their grief.

This is dangerous. Children have a hard enough time with grief and trauma already. Adding to the cocktail, euphoria from all the media attention. While people try and make an emotional argument for gun seizures. Once these kids come off the media attention high they will crash and hit bottom hard, especially since they have not dealt with their grief yet.

Playing this gun control garbage up is one thing after an incident. But using children as props and standing on the graves of the deceased and the grief of the children who lived is disgusting.

None of this furthers any discussion on this matter because no one ever puts any policy forth. And just because they were in a school that had a shooting, that doesn’t make them experts on policy.

Emotional nonsense.

The children are choosing to speak out. They are exercising their civil liberties. They have engaged on social media, as well, so they really don't even need the regular media to do anything.

The fact is that our government has gotten less responsive to the people over the years, and the issue of gun control is one place where that is extremely evident. With public opinion as it is on the issue, it is easy to see that they will of the people is being ignored by elected officials. By being victims of such a tragedy, because even those that were not shot are victims, they have been given a voice in our society through their lived experiences. If they choose to use that voice, then why should we stand in their way? Why shouldn't we give them a platform?