Posted March 25, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

So much of the anti-gun push is based on feelings, not facts.

While anti-gunners tout biased research or inconclusive data in an attempt to appear reasonable, their ultimate weapon is and has always been feelings. Why else would they trot out the families of shooting victims or those who survive mass shootings? They’re banking on their grief and torment to sway you into supporting anti-gun legislation.

A prime example happened in Des Moines, Iowa a month ago at that city’s second March For Our Lives rally.

On Valentines Day, Melissa Zapata arranged 17 candles into the shape of a heart, watching the flames flicker in memory of the lives lost to gun violence at her alma mater, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a year earlier.

“Such trauma and emotional stress does not go away overnight, or even a year after the incident,” said Zapata, 24, a medical student at Des Moines University, mentioning two Parkland students who’d committed suicide in the past week.

She was among half a dozen students from the Des Moines area who spoke on the steps of Iowa’s Capitol on Sunday afternoon, urging those gathered to …Read the Rest

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