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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:43 PM Mar 2018

The NRA Is Attacking The Teen Organizers Of March For Our Lives

The NRA Is Attacking The Teen Organizers Of March For Our Lives
By Taylor Dolven Mar 23, 2018

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is pulling out all the stops ahead of what’s estimated to be one of the largest marches of all time on Saturday, when one million people plan to descend on the nation’s capital to demand stricter gun control measures.

NRA TV has been flooding its social media channels with videos criticizing the protesters under the hashtag #MarchForOurLives, the name student survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, chose for the demonstration. Students leading the march want legislators to raise the federal age to buy a gun to 21, close background check loopholes for gun show and online gun sales, and ban assault weapons.

"If you’re too immature to carry a firearm, you’re too immature to make policy about firearms,” said NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch in a video posted to Twitter on Thursday evening.

https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/qvx8gp/the-nra-is-attacking-the-teen-organizers-of-march-for-our-lives
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The NRA Is Attacking The Teen Organizers Of March For Our Lives (Original Post) workinclasszero Mar 2018 OP
Oh Fuck off nra.. STFU and sit down, you bloodthirsty A$$HOLES Cha Mar 2018 #1
+100! workinclasszero Mar 2018 #3
Stunning Me. Mar 2018 #10
I know.. Cha Mar 2018 #14
And Dana Loesch and Wayne LaPierre would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids Freethinker65 Mar 2018 #2
The NRA is obviously scared shitless workinclasszero Mar 2018 #5
These kids are smart gratuitous Mar 2018 #4
If they werent cowards Nevernose Mar 2018 #6
The NRA is in the business of selling guns. They are a front for gun manufacturers workinclasszero Mar 2018 #7
NRA is a bogus acronym TwistOneUp Mar 2018 #21
You got it workinclasszero Mar 2018 #22
After being shot at these fucks are like gnats spanone Mar 2018 #8
Scairdy Fraidy Cats Me. Mar 2018 #9
the kids are not "making policy", they are asking the people in control to do so Takket Mar 2018 #11
So what? They are history blake2012 Mar 2018 #12
Fuck the NRA, they are a Pro-Putin Terrorist Organization...nt GReedDiamond Mar 2018 #13
Their entire premise is a fraud FakeNoose Mar 2018 #32
I'm mature enough to do both - carry a firearm and make policy about same FakeNoose Mar 2018 #15
Wish I had that sign. Good for you. Hekate Mar 2018 #25
The NRA is terrified. Blue_true Mar 2018 #16
In that quote, is Dana talking about members of the NRA? Seriously, I don't get it. ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #17
She is a revolting piece of shit. smirkymonkey Mar 2018 #23
+1 n/t Hugin Mar 2018 #34
The Russians allegedly contributed millions to the NRA Glamrock Mar 2018 #29
The NRA is in bed with Putin as is the entire right wing republican apparatus workinclasszero Mar 2018 #33
I was kind of being coy with the "too immature" quote in the article ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #37
SOP FOR GUN HUMPING COWARDS Skittles Mar 2018 #18
Dana and Wayne, you can just go fuck each other. pangaia Mar 2018 #19
Which "well-regulated militia" is Dana a member of? moondust Mar 2018 #20
Commit this catchy chant to memory: Hey, Hey, NRA! How many kids did you kill today? Hekate Mar 2018 #24
They are simply monsters and must be destroyed. Kablooie Mar 2018 #26
The NRA is a terrorist organization. jcmaine72 Mar 2018 #27
Good. Please continue attacking these kids. Glamrock Mar 2018 #28
I thought the NRA regarded everyone as old enough to buy and carry struggle4progress Mar 2018 #30
What about young people mature enough NOT to want to carry a firearm? DFW Mar 2018 #31
CSPAN call in about 9:30 am was all NRA supporters from Florida. CottonBear Mar 2018 #35
Of course, the NRA is Attacking peggysue2 Mar 2018 #36
If you don't have a uterus AnnieBW Mar 2018 #38
I would've Jamaal510 Mar 2018 #39
Go blow it out your ass, NRA. Initech Mar 2018 #40
March for our lives bdamomma Mar 2018 #41
If you're too stupid to see the justice, thucythucy Mar 2018 #42

Freethinker65

(10,023 posts)
2. And Dana Loesch and Wayne LaPierre would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:48 PM
Mar 2018

Do not mess with America's kids

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. The NRA is obviously scared shitless
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:53 PM
Mar 2018

over these brave kids who are tired of being targets for NRA terrorists!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. These kids are smart
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:51 PM
Mar 2018

Smart enough to ignore the heckling from the Peanut Gallery. The moral Lilliputians from the NRA don't scare teen-agers who've survived a gun massacre. It takes a special brand of dumbass to try.

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
6. If they werent cowards
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:54 PM
Mar 2018

They wouldn’t be so adamant about needing a gun “for self-defense.” These teenagers have them scared shitless. It doesn’t surprise me.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
7. The NRA is in the business of selling guns. They are a front for gun manufacturers
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 11:01 PM
Mar 2018

They use hate, fear and racism to do it.

That's why every NRA 'solution' to the latest mass shooting always revolves around selling more guns to more people.

TwistOneUp

(1,020 posts)
21. NRA is a bogus acronym
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:29 AM
Mar 2018

They are not about rifles. They are about sales of firearms, and thus they represent the manufacturers.

They should be called the NFMA, the National Firearms Manufacturing Association.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
9. Scairdy Fraidy Cats
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 11:33 PM
Mar 2018

These kids have got you in a chokehold and you know it. They're Brave, fearless and feel they have nothing to lose...except their lives.

Takket

(21,575 posts)
11. the kids are not "making policy", they are asking the people in control to do so
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 11:38 PM
Mar 2018

because they, you know, are tired are seeing their classmates riddled with bullets strewn about the campus. i know, snowflake Gen-Z-ers!

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
32. Their entire premise is a fraud
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 07:19 AM
Mar 2018


I know you've seen this before, my friend. I post this on DU whenever I get a chance so I apologize for the duplication. The notion that Americans are "entitled to own guns" based on the 2nd Amendment - that's all a fraud.

It needs to be challenged and struck down by the Supreme Court, and I believe that day will come. That's what we're marching for now. Enough is enough!

Personally I don't think Putin cares one way or the other about American firearms. Putin takes advantage of the NRA's secret backdoor PAC that allows them to hide the Russian money and distribute it secretly to the Republican Party. So yes the NRA is tainted with Russian money as a means to skirt our campaign contribution laws and corrupt our political process.

The NRA has shown that it doesn't deserve to exist, and its leaders should all be thrown in jail.

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
15. I'm mature enough to do both - carry a firearm and make policy about same
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 12:09 AM
Mar 2018

I'll be marching tomorrow and I'm carrying this sign:



Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
16. The NRA is terrified.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 12:10 AM
Mar 2018

People have had enough. Guns should not be available to mentally ill people, physical abusers and other types that the NRA happily support sales to.

Glamrock

(11,802 posts)
29. The Russians allegedly contributed millions to the NRA
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:43 AM
Mar 2018

during the leaduo to the '16 elections. The NRA then contributed the most they ever have to Trump.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
33. The NRA is in bed with Putin as is the entire right wing republican apparatus
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 09:19 AM
Mar 2018

A party of traitors that insists that our children to grow up cowering in fear under their desks in school.

The almighty AR-15 demands it!

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
37. I was kind of being coy with the "too immature" quote in the article
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:44 PM
Mar 2018

I think she's talking about the HS kids being young, but her use of the word "immature" is the problem. It's the gun humpers who are the immature ones, hanging onto their guns like pacifiers.

moondust

(19,991 posts)
20. Which "well-regulated militia" is Dana a member of?
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:26 AM
Mar 2018

What about Wayne? When do their well-regulated militias have field exercises? Will they be deploying to Afghanistan or Syria anytime soon? I'm sure they'll be missed by someone.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
24. Commit this catchy chant to memory: Hey, Hey, NRA! How many kids did you kill today?
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:31 AM
Mar 2018

Attend the March. Use it freely.

Glamrock

(11,802 posts)
28. Good. Please continue attacking these kids.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:40 AM
Mar 2018

All it's doing is hardening hearts against you and hastening your demise. And when strict gun laws are enacted? Your followers can blame you for it. You could have gotten on board long ago for common sense gun laws, but you chose no quarter. Now, overkill is where this will go. The companies that you lobby for will make far less money, your members will be strictly regulated. Look in the mirror. No one to blame but you.

DFW

(54,403 posts)
31. What about young people mature enough NOT to want to carry a firearm?
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 04:37 AM
Mar 2018

I guess the NRA isn't aware of that concept.

The notion of being able to make your point without carrying a deadly weapon obviously hasn't yet occurred to them. Won't they be surprised when they find out!

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
35. CSPAN call in about 9:30 am was all NRA supporters from Florida.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 10:16 AM
Mar 2018

Their comments were appalling. Bunch of evil, NRA trolls.

I quit listening to CSPAN Washington Journal years ago. I was just tuning into CSPAN online in order to stream the March For Our Lives.

peggysue2

(10,830 posts)
36. Of course, the NRA is Attacking
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 10:35 AM
Mar 2018

They recognize the power that these kids are having on the national consciousness and conscience.

Out of the mouth of babes, as they say. The children shall lead us.

Quite extraordinary, really.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
39. I would've
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 02:55 PM
Mar 2018

been surprised if the NRA had remained silent and not attack them. They're in the business of selling firearms and these demonstrations might threaten their bottom line long-term, so of course they're doing this.

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)
41. March for our lives
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 02:57 PM
Mar 2018

NRA Mr La Pierre you can suck on it!!! We hit a nerve.

Calling them kids paid professionals FUCK OFF, They said the Newtown massacre was a hoax, FUCK OFF.

thucythucy

(8,069 posts)
42. If you're too stupid to see the justice,
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 10:10 PM
Mar 2018

the logic, and the simple human decency of what these youngsters are trying to achieve, you're too stupid to hold an opinion on ANYTHING.

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