The former Iraq War vet and gun nut I see on fb has posted another rant, this time about today's march. He accuses these kids of not being around during other gun massacres to help, but completely ignores that they are...kids. He likes to present himself as a super-patriot military vet whose views are rational and logical, yet he's further to the right than Jesse Helms, is deep into conspiracy theories, and is a member of the John Birch Society. After the rant below he admits that there are "mentally ill" people in society, but accuses JFK and Carter of passing bills to just let these people out onto the street, so it's all the Democrat's fault. I just thought I'd post a sample, since it's no doubt typical of what many right-wing social media types are thinking about this subject:
So, there is gonna be a "march" protesting gun violence. Where were you when the Pulse night club went down? Where were you when some of MY SOLDIERS were shot and killed at Fort Hood? Where were you when San Bernardino went down? Where were you when the Amish school shooting happened in Nickel Mines? ..... Nothing but crickets.
A March by a bunch of wussies and spoiled brats created by hovering parents, that don't let their children grow up, and of kids that are so out of shape that they can't run around the house without falling down ..... and so intelligence challenged that they cannot do ANYTHING without the internet or a smart phone ..... without those crutches, they are virtual mental midgets. Hat's off to our education system! Way to go! Good job all you parents that created these snowflakes and all this idiocracy!
In all the Middle Eastern countries I have visited, which is every single one, except Israel and Lebanon (and in Africa as well) there is NO COTROL OF ANY WEAPONS! Six year old kids run around with FULLY AUTOMATIC rifles, machine guns, rocket propelled grenade launchers, mortar shells and grenades! That is their way of thinking, and the way they are growing up ..... they train to RULE your children and your way of life ..... if you are not like them. (That is ISIS and Boko Haram, etc.) Hundreds of thousands of CHILDREN are Soldiers in Africa. Yet, our AMERICAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA and most other Western media doesn't say shit. They are training. The Russian kids are training. Our kids are getting fat, dumber by the day, and have a fit if they can't watch Sheriff Callie's Wild West.
Let's be clear on a few things: The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. It is there the allow the Citizens (referred to as the Electorate in the U.S. Constitution) to protect themselves from a tyrannical and over reaching Federal Government that takes away the Freedom of Speech and the Freedom of the Press, and all the other Freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Read Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry.
Meanwhile, while this generation all around the World is training and plotting to undermine and rule your children ..... what are your kids doing? Playing candy crush?