Magical Thinking Typifies the Left’s Approach to Parkland and the 2nd Amendment

By Patrick Richardson

One of the issues with the modern left — which encompasses the #MarchForOurLives crowd — is the tendency to confer moral authority upon anyone who A) is a “victim” and/or B) speaks passionately.

It is obviously a logical fallacy to assume that simply because someone has been victimized or shows emotion on a subject has somehow become morally superior to everyone around them.

David Hogg and his crew are passionate. They’re young, it comes with the territory.

But, as Tucker Carlson points out, they’re jumping to extremes.

“I agree with that this is a kid who saw unspeakable tragedy, he saw his classmates killed, and that’s exactly why he shouldn’t be involved in formulating a response to it. He is a kid. So you can’t simultaneously argue that you need to shut up and listen to him and if you don’t you are bad, which is what the left is arguing, and that we shouldn’t take what he says seriously or literally,” he continued. “You have to choose one. I’m happy to choose the first one.”

Hogg and his friends are not appealing to facts or logic. Few, if any, of the proposals they advocate would have stopped any of the recent …Read the Rest

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