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As theyve stepped out of the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and into the national spotlight, the Parkland, Fla., teenagers have become Twitter influencers, TV news show mainstays and the stoic-faced subjects of a Time magazine cover.
But theyve also increasingly become targets: Their most prominent critics are people who see them less as survivors of a tragedy and more as pawns in a larger effort to influence gun policy.
The latest attack came from Colion Noir, a host on NRATV who took to the airwaves on the eve of the Parkland teens-led March on Washington, telling them: No one would know your names if a student gunman hadnt
To all the kids from Parkland getting ready to use your First Amendment to attack everyone elses Second Amendment at your march on Saturday, I wish a hero like Blaine Gaskill had been at Marjory Douglas High School last month because your classmates would still be alive and no one would know your names, because the media would have completely and utterly ignored your story, the way they ignored his, Noir said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/24/nra-host-taunts-parkland-teens-no-one-would-know-your-names-if-classmates-were-still-alive/&freshcontent=1
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...you hardly know where to start. Asshole--their classmates *aren't* alive. They're dead. Thanks to guns. And these kids are going to outlast you damned sociopaths.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)So go fuck yourselves and make sure the safety is off.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)GP6971
(31,167 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)If the NRA wants to stop generating activists against their cause, their cause needs to stop killing people senselessly.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)They should be focusing on things like their grades, who to take to the prom, college, etc just like most high school kids do.
The gunman took that away from them.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)He thinks these kids just want to be famous like their inept President or something?
Fuck you, asshole.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)What changed??............GUNS. we took guns to school and no one got killed...........
poboy2
(2,078 posts)rainin
(3,011 posts)Let me correct this asshole's story.
First:
The officer fired his weapon.
A witness reported that the gunman killed himself.
The police said it will be some time before they know for sure how the gunman died.
The media continues to report (prematurely) that the officer fired the fatal shot.
Second: The gunman had a pistol, not an AR15!
Oneironaut
(5,504 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)His story was covered extensively.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/us/maryland-school-shooting-resource-officer-response-trnd/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/us/shooting-school-maryland.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=645E12FC7753F747A441DE96B43F01D5&gwt=pay
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)They sure play it up that He stopped the gunman! Good thing he was there BUT maybe even he was too late?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)That's my main point.
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)Mariana
(14,858 posts)"The media completely ignored XYZ story!!!" is "Then how did YOU hear about it?" Invariably it was from a media story. Dumbasses.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,034 posts)this guy thinks he's being profound.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...cretin.
malaise
(269,054 posts)scumbags
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)for gun regulation! The taunts of the NRA act as an accelerant for the gun regulation reform that these kids are crying for...
Progressive dog
(6,905 posts)from those NRA creeps and they keep proving they have none.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)bdamomma
(63,875 posts)with total FAKE news
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar/23/national-rifle-association/nra-says-violent-radicals-are-behind-march-our-liv/
NRA says violent radicals are behind the March For Our Lives
Total BS.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)The NRA is now a front organization for Russian intel.
randr
(12,412 posts)Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)Doodley
(9,093 posts)because it is corrupt to the core and buys politicians.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)You don't need to be an NRA member. You just need to be a gunner defending your misguided notion that you have a right to own a gun.
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)Just keep it up, assholes.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)archaic clusterfuck of idiotic gun humpers. The NRA's blood lust will be snuffed out. Sooner or later.