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https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/24/us/nra-march-response-trnd/index.htmlHere's what the NRA had to say today about the March for Our Lives
By Brandon Griggs, CNN
Updated 5:49 PM ET, Sat March 24, 2018
(CNN)To hear the National Rifle Association tell it, Saturday's March for Our Lives was orchestrated by billionaires and Hollywood to push an anti-gun agenda.
On Facebook Saturday morning, the NRA posted a short membership-drive video along with a brief message.
"Stand and Fight for our Kids' Safety by Joining NRA," it said. "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."
On Thursday evening, NRA TV posted a clip on its YouTube channel entitled "A march for their lies" where the host addressed the Parkland students and said that if their friends hadn't died, "no one would know your names."
"To all the kids from Parkland getting ready to use your First Amendment to attack everyone else's Second Amendment at your march on Saturday, I wish a hero like Blaine had been at Marjory Douglas High School last month," Colion Noir said. "Because your classmates would still be alive and no one would know your names. And because the media would have completely and utterly ignored your story the way they ignored his."
He was referring to Blaine Gaskill, the school resource officer who was instrumental in bringing a school shooting to a quick end at Great Mills High School in Maryland on Tuesday.
Gaskill's story was widely reported in the media.
During the march Saturday, the NRA was conspicuously silent on Twitter.
As of mid-afternoon on the East Coast, when most of the marches were over, the National Rifle Association had yet to post a single tweet -- about the marches or anything else.
It was a notable contrast from March 14, the day students across the country walked out of school to demand action on gun violence. On that day, the NRA tweeted 13 times -- including one that contained an image of an AR-style rifle along with the message, "I'll control my own guns, thank you."
The organization wields substantial influence in Congress and has been cited by gun control activists as a chief roadblock to gun law reform.
dhill926
(16,339 posts)Girard442
(6,071 posts)They don't even bother with checks anymore. Just big open baskets of cash.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Who will stand up to the billionaires? Perhaps a scrappy, self-made man from Queens? A humble man who, with nothing but the sweat of his brow, his ingenuity, a 300 million dollar inheritance, and a level of narcissistic sociopathy thats never been seen before, and still managed to fail upward at everything he did?
A True Christian a family man, to boot! who lives in a golden palace in Manhattan?
Surely, someone like THAT can be the only person who can save us all from the evils of a guy who is half black and another person who isnt even a guy and who has ovaries instead.
Benghazi!
MagickMuffin
(15,942 posts)It might as well be caskets of cash!
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)I say PEOPLE...it is NOT an organization, it's a conglomerate of PEOPLE
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)The NRA is over.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)so what's your point NRA? Shoulda, coulda, woulda, hindsight are all 20/20...
That's all you've got to attack these children? Pathetic fucking pos's!
SunSeeker
(51,555 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Man, I wish I had that manipulating power a few years ago when I had a house full of them.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)My parents couldn't get me to wash the freaking dishes without an argument when I was a teenager.
Couldn't imagine someone trying to get me up before noon on a Saturday to attend a march.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Jesus, Mom, the grass isnt going to get much taller between now and then.
blake2012
(1,294 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,706 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)The NRA that is.
kentuck
(111,094 posts)Into their minds it will creep...
Comatose Sphagetti
(836 posts)Lots of name calling, lots of ALL CAPS and !!!, attacks on survivors, attacks on George Soros (as if he has anything to do with it), misspelled words, equivalencies to abortion, lots of "Just try to take my guns!" (stated) - I'll blow your fucking libtard brains out if you do! (implied).
Poorly educated white-trash hillbillies with zero self-awareness and critical thinking skills. And they all love Jesus - the exemplar of compassion, understanding, tolerance and humility (somehow they've missed that part. See "zero self-awareness" above).
Hilarious and tragic at the same time.
Initech
(100,075 posts)uponit7771
(90,339 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,942 posts)Gig's up NRA