Nationwide A March For Our Lives

[Amarok]

Also i point out that supporting victims of gun violence would fall squarely in planned parenthoods mandate.And there is no hypocrisy in them supporting it . Beta is a fucking tool.

[Aegon]

"Stand and Fight for our Kids' Safety by Joining NRA ... Today's protests aren't spontaneous. Gun-hating billionaires and Hollywood elites are manipulating and exploiting children as part of their plan to DESTROY the Second Amendment and strip us of our right to defend ourselves and our loved ones."

NRA Facebook Post

Very few things truly anger me. This does.

[Minimalist]

Look we know there are fuckheads on the other side of the issue.  That's no surprise.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/armed-w...idnt-work/

Armed white men showed up to intimidate kids at #MarchForOurLives rallies — it didn’t work

 

I just want to know one thing.  How come the cops who were there didn't shout "Gun, gun, gun" and blow this motherfucker away?

Say.  You don't suppose it had anything to do with him being white, do you?

[Losty]

Police Brutality, Science, Women's rights, Tax Documents, and now Guns!  Is there any problem a march can't solve!?

Here's a shock for you - it isn't an anti-gun march.  It's a We Want People To Stop Shooting Up Schools And We Would Appreciate It Greatly If Our Elected Representatives Would Do Something - Anything - Towards That End march.

Boru

Qft

[Anomalocaris]

I'll post this since I can't be the only one who has thought of it:

So, is there a plan on file with the local, county, municipal, state and national authorities for if (when?) 100,000 to 500,000 people surround this building and attempt to burn it to the ground ??   And then what happens ??

The ironic part of me wonders why no one has taken pot shots at their building.

It’s more satisfying to tear down a complete building than the wreckage of one?

[Brian37]

Look we know there are fuckheads on the other side of the issue.  That's no surprise.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/armed-w...idnt-work/

Armed white men showed up to intimidate kids at #MarchForOurLives rallies — it didn’t work

 

I just want to know one thing.  How come the cops who were there didn't shout "Gun, gun, gun" and blow this motherfucker away?

Say.  You don't suppose it had anything to do with him being white, do you?

They were not black and it wasn't a cell phone.

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The ironic part of me wonders why no one has taken pot shots at their building.

It’s more satisfying to tear down a complete building than the wreckage of one?

I don't want the building torn down. When the NRA goes belly up it should be turned into a museum of firearm violence and memorials to the victims and history of heros that got us to sane firearm laws.

[RoadRunner79]

Is that a Pro life rally?

Yes, not wanting your loved one to have their head blown off I'd certainly call pro life. Got anymore bullshit sarcasm you want to stupidly spew here?

Objects are not living things, humans have rights, objects to not. 

The right is not pro life, it is pro birth, pro "fuck you after birth". 

I am tired of the bullshit coming from the right that any call for a safer society is a call for a dictatorship. Australia and Scotland ARE NOT dictatorships and they ARE our allies and so is Japan. Despite what the right would have you believe, firearms ARE NOT banned in any of those countries. What they do get right, is not handing them out like candy. They make sure you are not mentally ill, they make sure you lock them up, they make sure you are not a violent person and if you get violent, they take them away from you. And they don't let everyone carry them in public without a damned good reason. <-------NOW, you show me anywhere in this paragraph where I called for an all out ban on all firearms. YOU WONT FIND THAT. 

If you think you can stop this movement which simply wants a safer society, you are fooling yourself. We are not out to oppress anyone simply for saying we are tired of average of 90 firearms deaths per day 365 days a year.

That's fine... but you need more than a rally.   You need thought out and logical solutions. 

What are you proposing, and what difference do you see coming from it?

[henryp]

That's fine... but you need more than a rally.   You need thought out and logical solutions. 

What are you proposing, and what difference do you see coming from it?

It's why the NRA always wins.  Because the NRA simpletons want to have guns.  And what does the NRA brass do?  Makes sure the simpletons can have guns.  That place is running on rails.  Even when the NRA simpletons are like "Hey, maybe we should make a couple concessions."  NRA brass knows better, and shuts that shit down, and doesn't give an inch.

They don't have more people than the opposition.  They don't have more money than the opposition.  They don't have the popularity of the opposition.  They don't have the media love of the opposition.  

So why do they always win?  At some point, somebody is going to say "hmm, maybe the people steering the ship filled with us dullards isn't actually acting on our behalf!?"  Because that's the difference.  The NRA leadership wants to keep guns for all their members. And the opposition leadership wants to get money and votes.   The majority of people in positions of power representing the marchers just don't care about the substance of the march.  It's just a tool to be used for their own purposes.

You can almost hear a Frank Underwood monologue as the video of the marches is playing.

[Angrboda]

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."

[Amarok]

Yeah wally is a cynical douche