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Aww: Team Hogg Just Got A Taste Of THEIR OWN TOTALITARIAN TENDENCIES, Aren’t Happy About It, :’-(

This is what we call “unintended consequences.”

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Led by David Hogg, for weeks a group of Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting survivors have been clamoring like geese for more government restrictions to be needlessly imposed on America’s millions of law-abiding firearm owners.

Thanks to the combined efforts of the National Rifle Association and conservative media, both of which have rightly sought to protect the Second Amendment from the whims of the inordinately ignorant, America’s gun rights still remained firmly intact as of early April.

Yet interestingly enough, Hogg and his merry band of demagogues’ constant fear-mongering regarding guns had at least engendered one rather serendipitous side effect, as noted Monday by Campus Safety magazine:

Students returning to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School following spring break will face added security and safety measures.

All students will be required to use clear backpacks, which they will be given for free when they arrive on Monday morning. They will also be required to wear newly-issued student ID badges at all times, reports NBC. …

Students will be allowed to bring large sports equipment or band instruments in non-clear bags or cases but should expect to have their bags searched, says Superintendent Robert Runcie, who calls the clear backpacks an “initial measure, not a permanent one.”

When students arrive, they will be able to enter using four entry points from 7:00 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. Afterwards, the front office will be the only entry point. By the end of the first quarter of 2019, all schools in the district will have a single point entry for visitors.

But that’s not all. Students at the school must now also contend with “an increased police presence,” real-time surveillance cameras and metal-detecting wands. Full-fledged metal detectors may likewise be installed sometime in the near future.

Sound draconian and totalitarian in nature? Team Hogg certainly certainly believes so:

Even Reason magazine contributor Robby Soave, a libertarian, admitted that these new security measures have indeed made Stoneman Douglas quite “prison-like.”

However, he noted the almost comical irony of it all, writing, “Policies aimed making it harder for people to own firearms aren’t fundamentally different from the above security measures.”

Exactly!

Or, as pithily stated by Brandon Morse at RedState, “[Y]ou cannot ask for more safety without losing some freedoms. That’s just the natural order of things.”

Except, instead of robbing gun-owning Americans of their constitutionally guaranteed Second Amendment rights (all on the premise that doing so would somehow enhance safety), Hogg’s fanatical gun control team wound up robbing itself of its own rights to feel free at school.

“Every day, students lose more and more freedoms at MSD,” one of Hogg’s classmates, Kai Koerber, whined to CNN this week. “Students of color have become targets and white students have become suspects. We do not welcome the militarization of MSD. It is terrible to see our school lose control over the protection of their students and their families.”

Sure, but you asked for it, son. Led by Hogg, you and others like you spent weeks making it clear to the entire country that the most basic American rights mean nothing to you. And now you’re surprised that YOUR RIGHTS have been rescinded? Hah. Welcome to reality, kid.

Better yet, welcome to the notion of principles, i.e. the principles that led you to resent these draconian measures perfectly mirror those of the firearm owners who resent YOU trying to subvert their rights.

Long story short, “No one’s liberties should be infringed just because agents of the state arbitrarily decide that a new policy might somehow make somebody feel safer.” (~Soave)

Let’s just hope you learned your lesson this time. If not, perhaps next week your school district can implement a policy that forces you and your peers to walk with your hands behind your backs. Just sayin’.

Class dismissed.

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