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Parkland Anti-Gun Bullies Clash With Trump Supporters and Nobody Knows Why

Parkland Anti-Gun Bullies Clash With Trump Supporters and Nobody Knows Why

Last updated on: May 25, 2018 at 8:40 pm by Susan Wright

Parkland Anti-Gun Bullies Clash With Trump Supporters and Nobody Knows Why 2018-05-25T20:40:38-04:00 Susan Wright

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This is the definitive “rooting for injuries” moment.

The fame-hungry, young David Hogg took his afterschool protest party to the supermarket floor, on Friday.

Literally.

Hogg, leading a host of fellow students from Parkland, Florida, as well as the parents of some of the victims of the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, decided to hold a “die-in” on the floor of a Publix supermarket, in Coral Springs and one other Florida location.

I was under a self-imposed lockdown for the first couple of months after the horrors of the Parkland shooting, where seventeen people lost their lives. I allowed room for the survivors to grieve, protest, speak out in any way they felt necessary.

I knew this event would be used to push the gun-grabbers’ narrative. They always are.

David Hogg and his fellow Parkland activists, young, dazzled by the attention they’re receiving, are absolutely pawns in the hands of those with an agenda.

Hogg and the others will be dangled in front of the cameras up until the point where they’re no longer cute or useful, then, lacking any naturally endearing qualities conducive for long-lasting fame, they’ll be shuttled off to relatively anonymous lives, as Starbucks baristas or fry cooks.

So what precipitated this particular lunge for attention?

Apparently, Publix made a political contribution to Adam Putnam, a pro-gun Republican candidate running for governor.

The grocery chain made a $670,000 contribution to Putnam’s campaign.

Now, it is completely logical to consider that there may be some other stances Putnam holds that are agreeable to the Publix chain, unrelated to his association with the NRA.

That mattered not to David Hogg’s traveling pimple brigade.

They took to the floor of the Publix, creating an obstruction to shoppers and an annoyance to those stuck at work, forced to hear the painfully puerile chants of, “Hey, hey, NRA – How many kids have you killed today?”

This is where I point out how excruciatingly dumb that chant was (besides unoriginal).

The NRA are a lobbying organization for gun rights. They don’t kill anybody.

Hogg and his fellow dolts were thinking about Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood kills about 1,000 children a day.

Several videos, however, captured how what was exhausting and annoying just got worse.

Enter the Trump fan club.

It is a fact of life that no matter what happens in this nation, somehow, Trump’s devotees will make it about Donald Trump.

WHY??

Whatever was going on at the Publix stores in Florida today, it had nothing to do with Donald Trump. They weren’t chanting against Trump. They were chanting against the NRA.

That didn’t stop a number of people in Trump t-shirts or those Make America Great Again hats from surrounding the kids lying on the floor and chanting Trump’s name.

It made for one of those scenes where those of us who see the uselessness of both sides reach for our migraine medication, as we ponder where our society lost its way.

In the meantime, Publix has decided to pull back on their political giving.

“We would never knowingly disappoint our customers or the communities we serve,’’ Publix spokesman Dwaine Stevens said in a statement obtained by the Orlando Sentinel. “As a result, we decided earlier this week to suspend corporate-funded political contributions as we reevaluate our giving processes.’’

If there were any heroes at Publix today, it was the employees that went about their business, as if it was just another day.

Here’s to you, guys.

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