U.S.A. — Have you ever heard someone say the following, “Well, I have a Ph.D., so….” The implication is that they know better than you. This is a strategy called “arguing from a place of authority.” It’s a strategy typically used to shut down opposition when debating. You’ll hear the political left often use this tactic when they are losing an argument while trying to defend their political and social ideas. It would seem our anti-gun friend David Hogg is doing exactly that.
If you remember this little character, you’ll remember that he became famous from the Parkland tragedy. After the Parkland killings, David went on every media outlet he could and got recognition from the anti-gun left. In their world, he was a star. Things have changed for David, as his recognition has been waning, so recently, he has been portraying himself on social media as a gun owner. He is posting about his experience at the gun range, his ability to make new friends in the community, sharing photos of his used targets, and positioning himself as an experienced, credible gun owner. Occasionally, this strategy is used by anti-gunners to help build faux credibility.
Since David has recently lost popularity and media face time, this may be a strategy to keep himself relevant. Or is there more to it?
I know many who follow me haven’t shot guns or semi automatic rifles before. Even with zero training I could shoot a pretty tight grouping at 20 yards. Just look. You don’t need 30 round mags. If you can’t stop whatever you need to with 10 7.62 rounds. You got bigger problems. pic.twitter.com/sJMxsfnmbT
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) July 6, 2023
David is also posting about the dangers of lead ammunition, expressing that the exposure is unhealthy and that we need a “greener” type of ammunition. This is particularly interesting because since last year, legislation to ban lead ammunition has been pushed with no luck. He continues to advocate for more gun restrictions as he posts about his experiences at the range. Is David really concerned about the effects of lead ammunition or is he positioning himself to be an activist with “credibility” for banning ammunition and other gun restrictions in general? It won’t be long before the media says, “firearms expert David Hogg says…”
The backlash from real gun owners against Hogg has been quite intense. Gun owners are not buying his sham for a minute.
It would appear the anti-gun crowd is getting a bit desperate with all the losses they are experiencing in court, and re-creating David Hogg may be their last hope. It seems they want desperately to turn David Hogg into a firearms expert, so they can have a credible advocate who is also a “gun owner” and who is willing to speak out against the 2nd Amendment.
Whether or not Hogg believes his strategy will work, he is rushing the plan. As usual, leftists don’t have much time when they are on a mission to violate their fellow citizens, so Hogg is pushing for gun restrictions almost as soon as he has declared himself a gun owner.
If we’ve learned anything from the anti-gun crowd and the far-left communist-minded, it is the fact that they are willing to go to great lengths to violate the rights of their fellow citizens. David Hogg is just another tool in their collection. When the gun grabbers are done with him, they will throw him to the curb. Until then, we can enjoy his foolish antics and watch as real Americans remind him that he is nothing but a fraud.
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Feral Hoggs do a lot of damage to the country.
They don’t need Hogg, they are using the ATF to close all the gun stores.
““Well, I have a Ph.D., so….” The implication is that they know better than you. This is a strategy called “arguing from a place of authority.”
It is also known from ancient times as: “Ethos”, the appeal to authority. One of the 3 basic arts of discourse. Many centuries old. Nothing really new under the sun. Only the stuff we used to know, but forgot about. 🙂
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
You may need only ten rounds at the range, but you’ve never had a target that was shooting back at you.
Funny, the anti-guns never mention that. Hm…
Love the “HOGGWASH”!! I will use this about the DemoKKKratic national communist committee’s PUSH to DISARM the Legal Law Abiding American Citizens!!
Hogwash defeats his purpose , I got news for you clown with a group like that your sorry ass needs a 60 round mag clown .
I think Hoggshit has run his novelty celeb course, just like that little bitch world renowned premier climate scientist Thunberg. That’s most likely not a target from his own shooting, and if it were, it’s most like from a semi auto rifle, and that’s the best he could do at 20 yards.
Anybody can post a half dollar size group. Just use a pencil to make the holes. The words to describe hogg can’t be used in polite company.
Your hog shit handle for the idiot is spot on . It fits and most likely smells right also
Simple fact, if a liberals lips are moving they are LYING!
Lead free ammo? I’m okay with tungsten core ammo.
Z – solid copper works as well for most ‘social’ purposes 😉
Even if the displayed target is genuine, Hogg’s argument that you don’t need that many rounds fails: what if—more than one attacker, attacker is moving, you are moving, barriers partially block shots, you are being SHOT AT, etc. BUT, I think the bullet holes in the target are fake! Too much uniformity in tear pattern and rotation. Look close.
You might have a point. Sorta looks like pencil jabs.
The holes do look like a bit of “copy & paste”, with a bit of rotation and manipulation.
Hogg is known as the Fake Survivor, never in any danger as he was in a closet in another building during the shootings.
james – nope – by his own admission he was at home about 3 miles away when the murders occurred. He stated that he got on his bicycle and took his tape recorder to the scene to get the real story.
Is this not Hogwash promotion? P.T. Barnum once commented “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” I had almost forgotten about this eunuch until now…almost. Which brings me to another idea, since the leftards in America seem to have shifted their allegiance from the old Soviet Union to China, I think it’s only proper we encourage them to go full on Chinese. Doing so, we should insist they adopt an important procedure to become “virtuous” from the Qin Dynasty until the early 1900’s, Emasculation. All the trusted government administrators, soldiers, inner-sanctum employees were eunuchs. I think it only proper all… Read more »
He’s more twink than eunuch.
Unless Congress somehow nullifies and voids the Second Amendment to the Constitution or brings forth and passes a new amendment that requires all citizens to be disarmed, I am going to ignore all the bull crap coming out of Washington or elsewhere, because I have a right to keep and bear arms that shall not be infringed.
Phag Hogg
David Hogg feeds on carrion and dung. A talent that is giving him a Harvard “education”, that his SATs could not.
this is just piglet’s lame attempt to remain relevant (at least in his own mind) in this debate. i think he might have plagiarized that first post from ol joe buyem.
fregs – he ‘might’ have gotten a bit of relevance if he had debated Colion as he ‘promised’ to do. But of course he refused.
He proposes a situation in which you have a single attacker and in which you don’t miss. I’m sure that threatening target had his adrenal glands dumping adrenaline giving him tunnel vision and shaking hands.
Besides the absurdity of his being able to shoot tight groups with “zero training,” it’s not up to him to tell me what I do or don’t need. That’s why they’re inalienable rights; the majority can’t decide for you that you don’t have them.
Sorry Hoggie Boy, I and all friends already each have an asshole. No position opening available suitable to your credentials. Suggest you apply for position at your favorite shooting range as a target backing board, building your credentials as an expert on the impact of lead poisoning.
Why wasn’t this beta male at school that day—-what did he know ?
I think his monthlies had him cramping.
Why do people feel they need to run another’s way of life, we went to war for this once.
Sad, but we need to again.
Hogg, was the punk who wasn’t even there. He returned to the school in the Post incident mayhem and pretended he War there the entire time.
Cruz, the Parkland Shooter, only had 10 round magazines (that was all the Walmart he purchased his gun at, carried). 17 dead and 17 wounded is a total Cas Count of 34. So we know he had to do a minimum of Four Mag swaps.
And Hogg, at 20 yards, your group sucks
This guy is to gun owners what JD Hogg from the Dukes of Hazard was to politicians – a terrible POS who has no business being the voice for anyone.
Hogg is so full of you know what that if you gave him and enema, he would disappear.
I identify with Hogshit Boy. Similarly, we were both survivors of Parkland shooting, he at several miles, me at 1500 miles.