Students Rally For Gun Rights, While Praising The Very People Who Will Take Their Guns

 It is no secret that the thousands of students who rallied for gun  control in the aftermath of the Parkland Shooting don’t seem to  understand how the implementation of their demands would impact the  country. 

But the dozens of students who held a counter march and rallied  for the Second Amendment while bearing “Blue Lives Matter”  flags also don’t seem to understand that the same gun rights they claim  to be fighting for will be stripped away by the government agencies they  are supporting. Each time a major mass shooting occurs, there is an influx of  politicians and celebrities who take to social media to call for  increased gun control measures. 

The Parkland shooting was unique in that  when students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School began rallying  against guns, they were rewarded with mainstream media airtime and  celebrity shout-outs that led to a drastic increase in followers on  social media. 

While Parkland students David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez were hailed as CNN Heroes after they called members of the National Rifle Association, “child murderers,” students Colton Haab and Ariana Klein were shut out of CNN’s coverage of the shooting and the solutions that should be pursued because of their pro-gun views. 

However, a recent student demonstration in support of the Second  Amendment proved that the problem does not exist exclusively with the  students who are against guns. Dozens of students from Rockledge High  School in Brevard County, Florida, walked out of class on Friday in a  pro-gun demonstration. 

Florida Today reported that the students carried signs that with cliché sayings such as “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” and “I support the right to bear arms.” During the demonstration, the national anthem and “God Bless America” played over loudspeakers while students marched with American and “Blue Lives Matter”  flags. 

When interviewed, the students gave what appeared to be  rehearsed talking points that generalized the issue of why the Second  Amendment lists essential rights for every American.  One of the most crucial points missing from the protest was the “well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,”  mentioned in the Second Amendment. 

If gun control measures were passed,  the same people who would be sent to enforce them are the people the  students were supporting with their “Blue Lives Matter” flags. 

In order to understand the most egregious problems with the anti-gun  movement that has been pushed by students in the aftermath of the  Parkland shooting, it must be established that it is not a problem of  whether the students are for or against guns. The real problem is found  in the willfulness of individuals to surrender their inalienable rights  and the rights of others to a tyrannical federal government in the name  of “safety.” 

While many of the students from Parkland blamed the guns, and the  students who held a counter-protest that showed their undying support  for law enforcement did not blame the guns, they both came together to  act as distractions that promoted the false “left vs. right” paradigm,  while ultimately pledging their loyalty to an unconstitutional police  state that allowed the Parkland shooting to happen in the first place.   

Suspected gunman Nickolas Cruz did not commit mass murder only  because he had access to firearms—if he had not had access, there are a  number of ways in which he could have carried out such an attack. 

He  committed mass murder because, after years of showing a number of  serious warning signs that he was planning on doing such a thing, he was  prescribed psychotropic drugs that have only been shown to worsen depression, suicidal thoughts, and aggressive tendencies. Cruz left several threatening comments on social media, in which he stated that he planned to become “a professional school shooter.”  He also threatened his ex-girlfriend and her friends, and he was  reported to the school by several students before he was finally  suspended. 

The FBI also received multiple credible reports about Cruz in the  months leading up to the shooting, and police were called to his home nearly 40 times in recent years over reports of “mentally ill person,” “child/elderly abuse,” “domestic disturbance,” and “missing person.” 

Both the students who rally against guns and the students who rally  for guns seem to be missing the fact that it has nothing to do with  guns, and everything to do with failure on behalf of law enforcement.  

While the Parkland shooting is a much more obvious example of why giving  police and the FBI unlimited power does not guarantee that they will  use it to keep citizens safe, it is also a reminder of how easily  Americans be coerced into being distracted when the evidence of what  needs to be limited in order to bring about change is right in front of  them. 

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