Did you wear an orange shirt over the weekend? You didn’t? In case you missed it, it was #WearOrange weekend to mark National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 1. But because this involved the youth — or “yutes,” as Joe Pesci would say — and it’s summer, they made it a weekend event.
So once again kids across America marched against guns. Or rather, against “gun violence,” but we know the score, don’t we? They really want to take your guns.
One of the big rallies happened in New York City, where thousands of anti-gun people marched across Brooklyn Bridge in the ‘Youth Over Guns’ March.
Someone managed to get access to a coffin.
Demonstrators rolled a casket over the Brooklyn Bridge as part of #YouthOverGunsMarch. #1010WINS pic.twitter.com/qOcjgOkoc4
— Samantha Liebman (@SamiLiebman) June 2, 2018
And because this was New York, and not some no-name town in Flyover Country, celebrities showed up. Like old reliable leftwing actresses Susan Sarandon and Julianne Moore.
Julianne Moore and Susan Sarandon with some of our organizers. #YouthOverGuns #YouthOverGunsMarch pic.twitter.com/YTY3ySoKeM
— Youth Over Guns (@YouthOverGuns) June 2, 2018
Yes, that Julianne Moore — who lectured “The View” audiences last year that ‘gun control is not a Second Amendment issue’ but a ‘safety issue.’
Somewhere 2A Father George Mason is facepalming.
There were some, well, interesting signs.
Like this girl, who. . . well, bless her heart:
Honey, the government does fund the arts — with an organization called the National Endowment for the Arts. The NRA is a private organization supported by its members. The government doesn’t fund it.
And this is another reason why we should’t give teens the vote. But I digress.
Then there was Ramon Contreras, one of the march’s founders, who said fixing gun violence requires mo’ money, mo’ money. For schools, naturally:
“Some of the roots, it goes to a lack of funding, and lack of effort towards our public school educational system and lack of funding towards local gun violence prevention groups who work on this issue for years now and work on the ground with students, and they are getting the funding and attention that they need.”
Say, whaaat?
Perhaps what Contreras doesn’t know is that there is an existing program called “School Shield,” which focuses on beefing up school security. Moreover, schools can request grant money through School Shield to defray costs.
But hold on! School Shield is a program from the evil NRA! Can’t have that now, can we?
Finally, there was this statement by a 51-year-old mom who participated:
“I’m not against people owning guns for protection but I am against people owning semi-automatic weapons.”
Lady, you’re either ignorant of what a semi-automatic is, or you’re lying. And I’m leaning towards the latter.
Why? Because a recent survey of self-identified Democrats showed that 82% favored some sort of ban on semi-automatic weapons.
Also on Saturday, liberal Vox pushed gun confiscation:
Australia responded to its own gun violence problem with a straightforward and severe solution: It collected hundreds of thousands of privately held guns. And it worked. https://t.co/Y1wX7OZIVZ
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 2, 2018
Never mind that some Aussie pundits — including Joe Hockey, the Australian Ambassador to the U.S. — say that their style of gun control wouldn’t work in the States. Gun control enthusiasts just love them some gun confiscation.
Like what’s going to happen to the people of Deerfield, IL, in two weeks:
In two weeks, gun owners in Deerfield, IL are supposed to turn in their semi-automatic rifles, destroy them, or get them out of town if they don't want to be criminals. But "nobody wants to take your guns", right? https://t.co/NOd9rzuWai
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) June 1, 2018
Then there’s Chris King, a Florida gubernatorial candidate, who’s getting creative in his anti-gun proposals. You see, not only does he want to ban ‘assault weapons,’ he also wants to put extra taxes on firearms, and ammo, too.
So yes, let’s punish legal gun owners and tax the hell out of them, making it more onerous to own a gun. It’s “for the children.”
King calls for sales taxes on bullets, firearms to pay for gun safety https://t.co/kdPWSpSxAY
— POLITICO Florida (@politicofl) June 1, 2018
So will criminals be paying those taxes on their weapons? I think we know the answer to that one.
But “we don’t want to take your guns,” they say. “We just want common sense gun reform,” they say. Right. And if you believe that, I might be able to swing you a sweet deal on that Brooklyn Bridge.
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