{"id":71283,"date":"2019-05-10T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71283"},"modified":"2019-09-27T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:52:15","slug":"absolute-moral-authority-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71283","title":{"rendered":"Absolute Moral Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wonder if <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/05\/09\/students-storm-out-of-colorado-school-shooting-vigil-in-protest-of-politicians\/\">these kids<\/a> will get lionized  and treated as the authorities that David Hogg has?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Survivors of a Colorado school shooting walked out of a vigil for their slain classmate Wednesday night in protest of politicians and other groups using it as a platform for gun control, a local report said.<br>The students from STEM High School, where two gunmen killed a student and wounded eight others Tuesday, began yelling from the stands that they \u201cwanted to be heard\u201d after two politicians and pro-gun control advocates addressed the crowd,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com\/video\/news\/local\/students-storm-out-of-vigil-for-victims-of-stem-school-shooting-after-event-takes-political-turn\/73-1780ed0e-9812-437f-9395-6d5f9dfc6a96\">according to the local NBC affiliate, KUSA<\/a>.<br>They then stormed out of the vigil after Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Democratic Congressman Jason Crow addressed the crowd,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/08\/stem-school-vigils-highlands-ranch\/\">the Denver Post reported<\/a>.<br>The kids chanted \u201cMental health\u201d and hurled expletives at the media, according to the report.<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And I don&#8217;t know about you, but suddenly I&#8221;m feeling kind of proud:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhat has happened at STEM is awful. But it\u2019s not a statistic. We can\u2019t be used as a reason for gun control. We are people, not a statement,\u201d one student said, according to video by KUSA.<br>Speaking of the lone fatality, 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo, another student added, \u201cWe wanted Kendrick to be mourned. We wanted all of you to join us in that mourning, but that was not allowed here. We all walked out. We were not kicked out.\u201d<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This nation needs fewer tragedies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if we had more of this kind of moral courage, we&#8217;d have a great start.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if these kids will get lionized and treated as the authorities that David Hogg has? Survivors of a Colorado school shooting walked out of a vigil for their slain classmate Wednesday night in protest of politicians and other groups using it as a platform for gun control, a local report said.The students from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-crusade","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71284,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71283\/revisions\/71284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}