the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, “Student-led” marches across New Jersey are part of the national March for Our Lives protests for gun control.
According to the Bergen Record ,the Hackensack march will include students from 18 high schools covering 26 municipalities. New Jersey’s first lady, Tammy Murphy, and Rep. Josh Gottheimer, along with other officials and clergy members, will also attend. The groups Ridgewood JOLT, Glen Rock After the March, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and Sandy Hook Promise are also supporting the march.
The “Student-led” protests are slick and well produced with the kids appearing to be nothing more than window dressing .
The focus more and more seems to be on a collection of political wannabes and helicopter parent activist pushing gun control and an anti NRA , anti Trump agenda with school safety being a mere afterthought.
This is shaping up to be a classic “wedge” issue. Progressive democrats and liberals who think the way Hillary Clinton does are trying to pry republican women away from their husbands, sons, fathers and boyfriends by sensationalizing the Parkland event. The idea is to shame these otherwise conservative women into shunning Trump’s common sense view that good guys with guns, whether concealed carry or open carry, are the single best answer for limiting the damage when sicko psychpaths finally “pop” like the proverbial weasel.
“March for Our Lives” – Is this a march to stop the out of control budget in Washington?
(or Ridgewood for that matter)
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Yeah, you silly women … don’t think for yourselves – that’s what the men in your life are for. After all they’re much smarter than you and get paid more. Now get back into the kitchen and make your hubby dinner.
It just kills some people to see a successful gun control protest. Yes it is student,led.
Another million plus peaceful marchers unhappy with elected officials. Would you just prefer if we just blogged about the issue? Blogging accomplishes so much.
Survey: Majority of Democrats want to ban semi-automatics, half want to ban all guns
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The Washington Examiner 03/02/18 | Becket Adams
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When pro-gun control advocates tell you they don’t want to take your guns, they actually want to take your guns.
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At least, that’s the key takeaway from a YouGov survey released this week, which shows a significant number of self-identified Democratic respondents support the idea of total gun confiscation.
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The poll, which was conducted between Feb. 25 and 27 and has a margin of error for registered voters of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points, surveyed 1,500 adults.
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Of that number, YouGov found that 73 percent of self-identified Democrats “strongly” favor banning semi-automatic firearms. The survey found that an additional nine percent “somewhat” favor a ban of that sort.
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Translation: 82 percent of surveyed Democrats say they favor a ban on semi-automatics, which would include not just rifles like the one used in the Feb. 14 Parkland massacre, which claimed the lives of 17 people, but also most handguns.
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That’s a hell of a ban.
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Fifty-three percent of Republican respondents said they’d oppose such a ban.
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To be fair, though, the YouGov survey doesn’t bother to define terms, so it’s possible respondents just assumed the semi-auto question was in reference to AR-15-style rifles only. Still, that doesn’t speak well to the general population’s literacy regarding a fairly common product and an extremely topical subject.
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Amazingly enough, this isn’t even the survey’s most shocking find. That distinction goes to how respondents answered the question: “Do you favor or oppose … [banning] the sale of all handguns, except those that are issued to law enforcement officers.”
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If you can believe it, Democratic respondents were split on this question. Forty-four percent said they would support such a ban, while a oh-so-slightly larger 46 percent said they would oppose it.
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In contrast, 81 percent of Republican respondents said they oppose the proposal.
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Unlike the semi-auto question, there’s no ambiguity here for respondents to hide behind. The question is clear, and it’s amazing that these numbers would appear while we’re also having a national conversation about police brutality, Black Lives Matters, criminal justice reform and systemic racism.
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That’s not all! The survey also found that Democratic respondents were loosely split on whether the Second Amendment ought to be repealed. Thirty-nine said they’d oppose it, while 41 percent said otherwise. The broader population, on the other hand, overwhelmingly opposed the idea by 60 percent to 21 percent.
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There is, however, a moment of bipartisan consensus to be found in YouGov’s data. When respondents were asked if people with a “history of mental illness” should be prohibited from owning a firearm, both Republicans and Democrats said “yes.”
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Eighty-six percent of Democratic respondents said they supported the idea, while 81 percent of Republicans said the same.
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How we plan for authorities to define “mental illness,” or when a person should be found as sufficiently “ill” as to bar them from exercising their Second Amendment rights is going to a very fun and rewarding conversation when we get to it.
People have been comparing these brats to Hitler Youth, but we might want to appreciate our good fortune that they are Starbucks loving, pot smoking, lazy, gender confused fornicators completely devoid of the German excellence, nationalist pride and quality graphic design (!) that marked their forebears.
6:05 you’re disgusting