Update: And then, there was his speech at the "March for Life" Saturday, March 24th.
His new found fame as the spokesman for the youth against gun violence has clearly, but sadly, gone to his head. Mr. Hogg, I would guess, most likely doesn't even know how to explain the difference between a representative republic and a democracy, because the public schools of this country haven't even taught a civics course - basic Constitutional concepts in our founding document - since the early '70s when I graduated from high school. I doubt he's ever heard the definition of how democracy works in a simple, but revealing quote; "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner."
This type of situation, where a tragic event is seized by someone who happens to be clever enough to use their skill of a combination of looks - he's a good looking young man - is tech savvy, self-assured and articulate, along with the propaganda his liberal teachers have fed him since elementary school to rise in mere weeks to national attention and following - the media is lapping this up - is precisely what I've been concerned about for years now.
He has no perspective on being concerned about protecting a family of loved ones from crazy individuals who could accomplish the same task with some other inanimate object - knife, scissors, sword, axe, grenade, bomb, etc. - that causes anyone to bleed; only himself and his peers from those terrible, horrible things that go bang, bang! No, it's got to be the tool, not the person who controls it ,and their distorted mental state. Run with the feelings, not rational, logical thinking. They don't teach critical thinking in school, even college, anymore.
It would be interesting to learn the truth about just how poorly his classmates treated this perpetrator of the massacre while he was a student among them at this school. As an experienced teacher, I can assure you that it most likely wasn't good. Of course, they'd take no responsibility, or admit any participation in, their treatment of him in any unfriendly, uncaring, or bullying way.
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For the sake of comparison, let's look at another situation where loss of life was eminent, but turned out completely different:
"No News Is Good News"
BY TIM SCHMIDT - USCCA FOUNDER
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 "No
news is good news." I'm sure you've heard that
one before. The phrase,
possibly adapted from
James I of England, who
purportedly once said, "No
news is better than
evil
news," suggests that, without any
information or evidence to the
contrary, we can assume that all is
well.
That must be why the mainstream
media has uttered but a peep about
the latest school shooting out of St.
Mary's County, Maryland.
According to TheMaven.net, "The
school resource officer on duty at
Great Mills High School engaged the
shooter and stopped the threat"
Tuesday morning, leaving the 17-year-
old gunman dead.
St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim
Cameron said that "School Resource
Officer Deputy First Class Blaine
Gaskill immediately responded and
engaged the
shooter," identified by
authorities as Austin Wyatt Rollins.
Cameron noted that "only seconds —
'less than a minute'
— elapsed
between the time when the first shot
rang out, and when
Deputy Gaskill
eliminated the threat to other students
in the hallway."
Deputy Gaskill eliminated the threat to
other students in the hallway. "Rollins
killed one student — a 16-year- old
female — and injured a 14-year-
old male before Gaskill was able to
stop the threat.
Jay Weber of The Jay Weber Show
noted on Wednesday that this story
isn't getting "nearly the coverage
it
deserves or it should" and said he
couldn't even "assume that all
listeners
have even heard
about this story." He
weighed in on why the media hasn't
jumped to
share this news out of
Maryland: "It's an in-your-face
response to the
anti-gun ninnies who
say armed guards in schools or trained
staffers
carrying in schools don't make
the schools safer.
They sure as heck
do. The Maryland story proves it
again."
So no news is good news — except in
the media. In the media, good news,
especially that involving firearms, is
NO news, because it doesn't
further a
decidedly anti-gun agenda.
Our very own Mark Walters once said
something on his Armed American
Radio show that I wrote down and
saved, and I think it's pretty fitting
here:
"The media controls the narrative …
not only by
what they tell us, but —
more importantly — by what they
don't.
By what they leave out. By what they
don't want you to know."
Indeed. That being said, here's what
the media doesn't want you to know
about what happened in Maryland (I'm
not sure who the original author of
this
list is, but it's too good not to share):
What DIDN'T stop Austin Wyatt
Rollins:
-Maryland's "assault weapons" ban -Maryland's 10-round magazine limit -Maryland's universal background
check requirement
-Maryland's law requiring an
exhaustive application process to
obtain a permit to purchase a handgun
-Maryland's law prohibiting purchase
of more than one firearm per month
-Maryland's law requiring handgun
registration
-Maryland's law requiring licensing of
handgun owners
-Maryland's extremely limited approval
of concealed carry permits
-Maryland's refusal to honor any
concealed carry permit from another
state
-Federal law prohibiting handgun
purchases for people under 21
-Laws against carrying without a
permit
-Gun-free zone laws -Laws against discharging a firearm in
public
-Laws against attempted murder What DID stop Austin Wyatt Rollins: -An armed person at the scene who
engaged the shooter in less than a
minute
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