The March For Our Lives, And Other News

 Today, thousands of teenagers and their adult sponsors have participated in the March For Our Lives, in which they are asking for more gun control laws.  In my view, the real name of this event should be the March Against Civil Rights, since gun ownership, except for certain classes of people such as felons, is a civil right, which the marchers wish to restrict.

One argument against gun control is based on the idea that such laws always restrict the rights of people who do not commit gun violence.  It's like trying to stop drunk driving by not allowing people who don't drink to drive cars, so one analogy goes.  It seems that newly-noted activist David Hogg, a student at the high school in Florida where 17 students were killed by a former student, now agrees that people who haven't done anything wrong should not be subject to new rules because of what someone else did - at least when he is among those who are affected by the new rules.  In response to the shooting, his high school in now requiring that all backpacks worn by students are transparent, which he doesn't like.  From HotAir:

So, gun control for an entire country of 300 million people is a reasonable response to the Parkland shooting, but backpack control at one high school is an unreasonable response to the Parkland shooting. How dare authorities impose this one-size-fits-all mandate on everyone, including the vast majority of students who did nothing wrong! Oh…wait.

The young man's hypocrisy is obvious, at least to myself and the HotAir contributor.
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As for what else is new, related to the march or not:

From Twitchy, one MFOL participant asks for a law that already exists.

From The Daily Caller, the brother of a girl who died in the Parkland shooting is not allowed to speak at the MFOL.

From NewBusters, the tingle-up-the-leg guy thinks that we should all expect "basic" restrictions on gun rights.

From The Blaze, the participants in the MFOL are protected by (well, what do you know?) men with guns.

From Breitbart's Big Government, Hogg calls his teachers "very understanding" about his skipping classes.

From Flanders News, Antwerp, Belgium runs out of room to house juvenile delinquents.

From the Express, a German member of the E.U. Parliament thinks that the E.U. must make Britain a new offer.

From Prisonphone, the U.K. now has the highest number of prisoners in the E.U.

From Sputnik International, French authorities have arrested a second man in connection to the attack in Trèbes.

From Russia Today, the French policeman who exchanged himself for one of the hostages taken in Trèbes has died.

From Al Arabiya, French authorities who had monitored the Trèbes attacker thought that he had not been radicalized.

From The Local FR, what we know about the Trèbes terrorist.

From Dawn, a court acquits 20 people accused of lynching and burning a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan, Pakistan.

From Breitbart London, the BBC refers to a convicted terrorist from Iraq as a "Surrey teenager".

From Channel NewsAsia, Malaysian authorities have arrested seven suspected terrorists who allegedly plotted to attack non-Muslim places of worship.

From the Mirror, a British Muslim actress defends herself from a troll.

From The National, two policeman are killed in a roadside bombing in Alexandria, Egypt.

From National Review, the Republicans in Congress "still don't get Trump".

From Townhall, the 20 "worst quotes from Louis Farrahkan".

From the New York Post, the U.S. embassy in Thailand exhibits artifacts including a letter from the Thai king in 1861 offering the United States two elephants.  (Perhaps this was before Abraham Lincoln's party adopted the elephant as its symbol.)

And from The Babylon Bee, the top seven replacement words for swearing.