DC: Constitutional lawyer and New York Times best-selling author Mark Smith combats David Hogg’s rhetoric in his latest book, “#Duped,” which serves as a response to the newly-minted gun-control activist and Parkland graduate’s recently released book, “#NeverAgain.”
Smith exposes the left’s celebration and exploitation of students in order to advance so-called common sense gun control. “#Duped: How The Anti-Gun Lobby Exploits The Parkland School Shooting — And How Gun Owners Can Fight Back” deconstructs the progressive narrative and illustrates how advocates use children to promulgate an agenda that is so unpalatable they have failed to otherwise enact.
Smith writes:
From a political standpoint, children are ideal carriers of messages because they are unassailable, particularly if they have a direct connection to a tragedy. For the gun control movement, children represent a win-win-win. They are sympathetic, they are beyond reproach, and they cannot be challenged by anyone. These factors make children ripe for exploitation and explain why we see so many of them in the media today promoting gun control.” more here
I disagree with the idea that “anyone” is unassailable, especially children.
Children are stupid (or ignorant if that sounds better), and do not have enough life experience to determine a political position. Their views are short term and can only be such because they do not have the experience to know better.
It’s Hamas tactics amd Hospital Rooftop Rocket Launchers. Watching the MSM now reminds one of a Yasser Arafat news pressers back then.
Evil Lives in the MSM and it sounds like a broken record.
I just want to interject here. I don’t give a flying fuck about Hoggs. But I’m watching a wonderful report on Charles Krauthammer.
Using children is an old trick. When was the last time you saw an appeal for money showing the brown toothed, diseased meth heads the money for the homeless actually goes to?
They always use children in the pictures. Don’t fall for it. Donate to your church. Not to these “charities”.
David Hogg has a permanent reserved spot at Red Hen. Hope he chokes on a chicken bone.