{"id":5891,"date":"2019-06-26T11:23:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2019-06-26T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T15:23:54","slug":"another-example-of-why-its-hard-to-take-the-anti-gunners-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/another-example-of-why-its-hard-to-take-the-anti-gunners-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHY IT\u2019S HARD TO TAKE THE ANTI-GUNNERS SERIOUSLY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David Hogg, now 19, is at it again. He jumped on the publicity bandwagon in hopes of being the new poster child of the anti-gun movement after the high school he attended was the site of a mass murder atrocity on Valentine\u2019s Day of last year.\u00a0 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Someone tried to \u201cSWAT\u201d-prank him a little more than a year ago (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5301668\/david-hogg-swat-swatted\/\" target=\"_blank\">Someone tried to \u201cSWAT\u201d-prank him a little more than a year ago<\/a>; fortunately, no one was harmed in the course of the prompt law enforcement response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the young man has told a major newspaper that he has \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"survived seven assassination attempts (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/parklands-david-hogg-children-having-to-go-through-active-shooter-drills-is-not-what-freedom-looks-like-to-me\/2019\/06\/24\/ee5c8982-8182-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.261915c6c1d1\" target=\"_blank\">survived seven assassination attempts<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2026M\u2026G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This young\nman has established himself as a rude, publicly foul-mouthed parrot repeating\nhackneyed lines from the Brady Campaign and the Bloomberg group, nothing\nmore.&nbsp; I can totally sympathize with him\ngrieving for schoolmates lost in the massacre; I, like the rest of America,\ngrieved for them too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If he did\nindeed make that statement, it means that if he\u2019s the poster child of anything,\nit\u2019s the nature of the anti-gun spokespeople to exaggerate and flat out\nlie.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His\ndeliberately provocative purple prose on the Twitterverse may indeed have\nprovoked some unstable people to death threats (or maybe, some of those were\nposted by people on his side trying to win sympathy for him).&nbsp; However, conflating death threats with\nassassination attempts is a pathetically grotesque exaggeration.&nbsp; Several have compared it to Hillary Clinton\u2019s\nclaim that she came under sniper fire in Bosnia.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, it\nshould be noted, by all accounts he was not even in the building where the\nmurders took place at the time the atrocity went down, and some insist he\nwasn\u2019t even in school at the time. One pundit said, \u201cIf he\u2019s a mass murder\nsurvivor, then since someone once died in a car crash a block from my house, I\nmust be a fatal accident survivor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exaggeration\nis the stock in trade of the gun banners, since facts and genuine statistics\ndon\u2019t fit their agenda. Apparently, the self-described \u201ckid\u201d has learned\nexaggeration from his behind-the-scenes puppet-masters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Hogg, now 19, is at it again. He jumped on the publicity bandwagon in hopes of being the new poster child of the anti-gun movement after the high school he attended was the site of a mass murder atrocity on Valentine\u2019s Day of last year.\u00a0 Someone tried to \u201cSWAT\u201d-prank him a little more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5892,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions\/5892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}