Are these child activists just puppets for the anti-gun lobby?

Yes

Puppets. Hogg is a mini Adolph wannabe. He'll prob suffer a similar fate...

Look when I was their age I protested the the Vietnam War and fought for civil rights. It started when I was their age. I wasn't anybody puppet and don't think they are too. It seems that people question their motives I don't know how I would have acted if I survived this event but I know I sure in Hell would want to change things and that is what their doing. More power to them .

It's all kabuki theater! Of the two main dramas being featured, I have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to choose between the two. Since I lack information, at best my hunches will never be anything more than guesses.

The first is war with Russia and / or China. The U.S. does not act like it is going to war -- other than with corporate media, who are screaming 24 x 7. Conversely, neither Russia or China is acting very enemy-ish. If it does happen, it will be either nukes or nothing.

The second scenario is the complete confiscation of guns, and this a very much more likely scenario in my opinion. Their methodology will not involve convincing the American people -- who are overwhelmingly in favor of guns from what I've seen. My guess is a Red Dawn scenario, with the invasion being trojan-horsed through container ships instead of formal military landing craft. The gun grabbers will do their best to distract the citizenry as well as having very few American military actually on U.S. soil. The deep state, by whatever means, will suddenly declare firearms to be illegal, followed by Chinese U.N. troops -- just like Johnny on the Spot. It will greatly help their cause to ensure that the concerned citizens will only have Noble Losers leading them -- leaders that will bumble their way through their duties, let themselves be targets of ridicule and jokes on a daily basis, and inevitably take the knee at each and every moment of truth. If there is a stupid way to do something, leave it to the Noble Loser to make it even more stupid.

The motive for the second scenario is pretty simple: the deep state loves the ciminals far more than you. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in "The Gulag Archipelago" about how the communists very much preffered the criminals to ordinary citizens. Citizens that might get bright ideas about wanting liberty and stuff like that. The end result being fuedalism 2.0 where the invidual cannot raise themself beyond their station. Only the rich can afford to tinker and elevate based on merit.

I hope there are a few truly dedicated officers that will at least war game such scenarios in their own mind.

These hero kids are being exploited like never before. They are being treated as pawns in a huge game of chess. Children, as well as those mentally immature enough to act out, often with empty cries of "Ban all guns now!" or "if we just stopped having guns, no one would die from them."

We need to listen carefully to these brave children, honor them for their commitment, and make our policy based on an adult perspective.

Unfortunately these kids have become useful idiots and don't realize it.

Young Mr. Hogg appears to be too ready to be the poster boy for thi movement. He seems to be spouting the pre prepped talking points of the anti firearms movement. He is having his strings pulled as a puppet by his handlers. I question that he is a student at the HS in Florida....I suspect him as being considerably older than the 17 he claims to be....a crisis actor if you will. Something is rotten en Denmark as that well known author and poet once said.

These students are being used as puppets of the anti-firearms left. The students are not being given a choice in the matter they are being paraded about through the teacher' unions and the LIBERAL LEFT radicals that seem to fill public education today.

They are absolutely puppets. Notice there wasn’t a peep about the armed guard who saved the other school. The rally was well financed and organized. That’s well above what the teenagers can do.

I think you've completely missed the point. These kids don't believe that our so-called "representatives' are puppets simply for taking money from the NRA. It's because they take money AND THEN DO EXACTLY WHAT THE NRA WANTS, even when it goes against the will of an overwhelming majority of the American people.