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ffr

(22,669 posts)
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 01:36 AM Mar 2018

Parkland shooting survivors say the NRA is "basically threatening" them

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Two vocal leaders, David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez, spoke with CBSN Monday to discuss the movement and why they believe they can through the partisan divide on gun control and drive real change in policy.

Both Hogg and Gonzalez, who refer to themselves as members of the "mass shooting generation," say they've received death threats in response to their efforts in launching the movement. But they aren't letting threats deter them from making progress.

"There's always been people who are going to want to harm us," Gonzalez said. "I'm not going to pretend that this like opened my eyes to a cruel and harmful world ... When it comes right down to it, we already knew that this world was going to be tough. So getting death threats like that doesn't really faze us."
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Both Hogg and Gonzalez say the NRA has reached out to them, but not in a positive way.

"The way that they've been reaching out to us is basically threatening us," Hogg said.


"They've been instigating things," Gonzalez added. "And then, when we reply, they like shy back away. They can dish it out but they can't take it." - CBS News
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Parkland shooting survivors say the NRA is "basically threatening" them (Original Post) ffr Mar 2018 OP
If they were capable of takin what they dished out Nevernose Mar 2018 #1
Sounds like the bloodthirsty assholes Cha Mar 2018 #2
the NRA is a terrorist organization so that fits Skittles Mar 2018 #3
Oh but NRA propagandist Dana Loesch says that the NRA PA Democrat Mar 2018 #4

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
1. If they were capable of takin what they dished out
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 02:04 AM
Mar 2018

They wouldn’t be so ducking scared that they feel the need for more guns, more guns, more guns.

It’s ironic that NRA members say, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” If that’s true, then what are they so afraid of that they need AR15s?

It’s even more ironic that what the NRA IS most afraid of is a bunch of empty-handed children, kids armed only with their exercise of Constitutional rights.

Cha

(297,149 posts)
2. Sounds like the bloodthirsty assholes
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 03:13 AM
Mar 2018

at the nra.

Their spokesperson dana loesch made such a disgraceful spectacle of herself.

Such brave, fearless leaders in the "mass shooting generation".

Mahalo, ffr

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