Years after surviving a mass shooting himself, “Eagles of Death Metal” frontman James Hughes expressed disgust at the protesting survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, and he’s catching some serious heat for speaking his mind.
On Saturday, several hundred thousand people joined the March For Our Lives, which was organized by the students of the Parkland, Florida high school where 17 people were killed last month. The main rallying cry of the march was a call for increased gun-control legislation. Dozens of celebrities openly supported the cause, but it didn’t sit well with Hughes, who was onstage during the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris in 2015 that left 90 people dead.
Hughes blasted the protest in a series of Instagram posts that are no longer public in which he said the protesting students were insulting the memory of those who were killed.
Eagles of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes calls Florida massacre survivors 'disgusting vile abusers of the dead' https://t.co/igOQr7Daj9 pic.twitter.com/Hm81RSQ1XM
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 26, 2018
“As the survivor of a mass shooting I can tell you from first-hand experience that all of you protesting and taking days off from school insult the memory of those who were killed and abuse and insult me and every other lover of liberty by your every action,” Hughes said.
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Why can’t people see they are just being used as political pawns being lead down a path of unreasonable hysteria?!! And that their protesting is to their own hurt and ours! It is most disturbing to see just how gullible these are who know nothing about guns! Their ignorance about the importance of the 2nd amendment and willingness to participate in hate mongering against law abiding gun owners and the NRA is troubling and dangerous…!
The same logic would be to protest and propagate hate against car owners and NASCAR! Cars have killed and maimed more people than guns!
So according to their logic they should be marching and screaming against cars and car ownership!
The fact is – taking away someone else’s rights is not going to protect yours!
Teenagers brains haven’t completely developed to be able to reason about things. They are listening to adults who are giving them bad advice.
Good for him! I am so sick of misinformed people who know nothing about the use of guns wanting to take away the freedom of those who wish to own them and are responsible. Instead of inciting riots and calling for something they don’t understand, they should study history, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Amendments to learn why they were written and became law. Our Forefathers were very wise men who saw this type of movement coming. If you purchase a gun today, that gun is registered and the government knows that you have it, but there are thousands that the government will never find or know about because they were purchased before the registration laws and they have been passed between family members. How are we suppose to defend our homes and our families against terrorists, both foreign and domestic, and against a government that has or does stray from the Democratic Republic that we live in? They are not getting mine without a fight!
Good for him! I am so sick of misinformed people who know nothing about the use of guns wanting to take away the freedom of those who wish to own them and are responsible. Instead of inciting riots and calling for something they don’t understand, they should study history, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Amendments to learn why they were written and became law. Our Forefathers were very wise men who saw this type of movement coming. If you purchase a gun today, that gun is registered and the government knows that you have it, but there are thousands that the government will never find or know about because they were purchased before the registration laws and they have been passed between family members. How are we suppose to defend our homes and our families against terrorists, both foreign and domestic, and against a government that has or does stray from the Democratic Republic that we live in? They are not getting mine without a fight!
About 3 or 4 years ago we received a email from a person in England telling us never to give up our firearms, for they were forced to give theirs up by there Government, in the letter the person said wish they never would have gaven them up. Look at the troubles England is having now. Re member our nations Second Amendment, it could save you or a family member.
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
I’m probably wasting my breath here as most of you have been so thoroughly brainwashed by the left that you can’t think on your own anymore. But, to all you kids that think gun control legislation will stop school shootings, think again. Regardless of what the brain washing gun control advocates have told you, you cannot legislate guns out of the hands of criminals OR the mentally ill. We already have laws to keep guns out of the hands of both but in the case of the Florida school shooting, those laws were ignored by both the FBI and the local police. If, by some slim chance, the left miraculously succeeds in outlawing guns, Only outlaws will be carrying them. Good luck defending yourselves against them.
If they succeed in banning guns, you can still use your baseball bat to defend yourself—————–that is————-until the Democrats ban them also!