Some Chick on Twitter: Poor People Are Too Uneducated to Own Guns

When David Hogg took to Twitter on November 28, 2018 and stated “congress ought to create a federal tax on gun sales to fund gun violence research” fellow Parkland student and gun rights supporter Kyle Kashuv had an immediate answer. Kashuv tweeted back “David, please realize that this penalizes people from low income areas that … Read more

An Editor’s Pistol, A Gun-Free Parade and a German AK-47 – TTAG Daily Digest

A gun in the editor’s top drawer They don’t make editors like they used to . . . When I was the editor of the Oakland Tribune back in the 1990s, I kept a loaded Glock in my top drawer. I take issue with the blanket news reports that the shooting at the Capital Gazette … Read more

TTAG Daily Digest: Eleven Minutes, Incorporating Freedom and the New #MeToo

Eleven Minutes Because a cop is too heavy to carry . . . (D)espite the fact I believe mass shootings are symptomatic of a larger societal problem that has little to do with guns themselves, it was a hard point to argue in the wake of tragedy without sounding trite and callous. Then the tragedy … Read more

Kyle Kashuv Interrogated By Broward County Deputies After Range Trip

Kyle Kashuv is a Parkland student who, just like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, was at Douglas High School the day Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 of his classmates. Unlike Gonzalez and Hogg and many other Douglas survivors, Kashuv has been a lone, persistent student voice in favor of gun rights and the Second Amendment. Despite … Read more

TTAG Daily Digest: Pining for Utopia, Teaching the Second First and Vox Does Kyle

What if all guns disappeared? They keep hoping and it never seems to happen . . . The most obvious effect of such a disappearance is simple: no gun deaths. Approximately 500,000 people around the world are killed by guns each year. In terms of developed countries, the biggest losses are in the US, where … Read more

TTAG Daily Digest: The Pope Says Keep Shouting, Colion On Offense and That Other Parkland Kid

Keep shouting, don’t become anesthetized, pope tells young people – Thanks, but David Hogg and his pals probably doesn’t need much egging on . . . Pope Francis, starting Holy Week services leading to Easter, urged young people on Sunday to keep shouting and not allow the older generations to silence their voices or anesthetize … Read more

‘Gun Reform’ is Un-American: Quote of the Day

“I do think gun reform is not an American ideology and would be desecrating the sacred document of the United States Constitution, the document that allowed this country to become so great.” – Kyle Kashuv in Meet the conservative Florida high school massacre survivor staunchly against gun control [via nydailynews.com]