Democrats lean into anti-Second Amendment messengers on gun policy

Published August 20, 2020 10:26pm ET



The Democratic convention hasn’t gone into specifics on much, opting for platitudes over policy, but if you look at who is selected to be the messenger, you can find out where the party really stands. This holds true for its message on gun control.

The DNC used an extended clip of Emma Gonzalez, a gun control activist and survivor of the Parkland school shooting, in its video segment on gun control Wednesday night. Like most of the gun control rhetoric that came out of Parkland and the ensuing activist group “March For Our Lives,” the speech is full of absurdities, claiming it’s harder to “make plans with friends” than to buy a gun and suggesting any defense of gun ownership is a justification for students dying.

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