Nationwide A March For Our Lives

[henryp]

They don't have more money than the opposition. 

Are you sure?

The NRA Quadrupled Its Digital Ad Budget After Parkland Killings, Flooding Facebook and YouTube

The NRA didn’t change its rhetoric or avenue of approach, the paper reported, but it did spend so much money that its ads began flooding the web, particularly Facebook and YouTube:

   "Nearly all of the increase was on social media, primarily Facebook, where the NRA took its spending from an average of $4,400 a day in the three weeks prior to Parkland to $34,000 a day in the three weeks after the silence. Florida was heavily targeted in the post-tragedy ad burst. The state went from ninth most targeted in January to third between mid-February and mid-March.

   ... For the past year, the NRA had been ranked No. 706 by Pathmatics on its list of top YouTube video advertisers. In the period since Feb. 21, the gun-rights group jumped into the top 100 at No. 92."

Is 34k a day an insurmountable amount of money?  6.5 billion dollars was spent on the 2016 elections.  NRA was 50 million.  Can they really control the entire government with less than 1% of donations?

Do you think Facebook ad buys is too much to be countered by 24 hour coverage on MSNBC and CNN and Print and Huffpost and etc...?  

You have millions of people marching, major networks favorably reporting, plenty of social media support, but it's all for naught over 34k a day?  Shouldn't it be harder to defeat the gun control crowd than buying youtube ads?  

There's a disconnect, right?  I say this as a person who doesn't care what happens in the gun control debate.