Something wicked this way marches

This movement, created by students, lead by students, is based in emotion. It is based in passion, and it is based in pain.
- Student Delaney Tarr, survivor of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting, in a recent address.

Movements perpetuated by passions not leavened by intellectual regard and common sense judgement are merely self-indulgent. 

The students involved survived a truly horrible event. For a couple, there may be immature political leanings and perhaps professional fantasies. These may be encouraged by irresponsible parents and other adults.

But in the main, survivors' sincerity should not be questioned. Sadly, lurking in the maltreated teens' back shadows is a familiar swarm, ideological long knives aflash.

Theirs is an ugly, vintage philosophy. And these crafty agitators have found this tragedy and the ensuant youthful heatedness a felicitous conveyance.

The militation against citizens' Second Amendment right to self-defense is of a part with ones presently mounted athwart other Constitutional protections, such as freedom of religion, speech, due process, and even life, itself. 

It is a general hostility toward the concept of Constitutional guarantees for the individual, something hated by collectivists long before the terrible shootings at Stoneman Douglas.

The students are being ridden like hell. Are the bloodsuckers atop them completely without decency?