NRA host taunts Parkland teens: No one would know your names if classmates were still alive
Source: MSN/Washington Post
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 stormed into their school and killed three staff members and 14 students.
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.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nra-host-taunts-parkland-teens-%E2%80%98no-one-would-know-your-names%E2%80%99-if-classmates-were-still-alive/ar-BBKEeTB
muntrv
(14,505 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)What the actual hell ?!!1!
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,999 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)There. I said it. Fuck them. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Leith
(7,809 posts)They don't care about being famous - they care about being alive!
Noir is an asshole.
atreides1
(16,076 posts)But it is his...he gets paid for shitting out of his mouth, and he's black, which is the only real reason he has the job!
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)May Americans with common sense vote accordingly
in the up coming midterms..
forgotmylogin
(7,527 posts)If the shooting hadn't happened, they'd be just normal students doing normal student things with their friends still alive.
Methinks the NRA is not happy about the dragon they've kicked and transformed into known personalities with a sympathetic cause.
Butterflylady
(3,543 posts)jmowreader
(50,555 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)you can just just SMELL the desperation
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Pure evil.
weissmam
(905 posts)bunch of Russian hugging gun nuts
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,582 posts)It's like Trump and the NRA are having a race to the bottom.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)We're done with you and your ilk. Off to the trash bin of history with you.
Turbineguy
(37,320 posts)"Why do people buy guns like that?"
The only answer I had was, "Because it makes them feel like something they are not."
BlueMTexpat
(15,367 posts)obviously as black as his name.
magicarpet
(14,145 posts)still_one
(92,168 posts)2018 is the opportunity for the American people to send a loud and clear message to the NRA
Mr.Bill
(24,282 posts)the NRA will do more damage to the republican party than Donald Trump.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)How stupid are they to think that attacking these kids, survivors of a fucking school shooting, is a good PR move?!!
Zorro
(15,740 posts)I mean, other than an obvious dipshit. Never heard of him before.
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)that name sounds very French to me! The same as Wayne LaPierre. Why do all these NRA sickos have French names? I thought they hated the French? You know, those "surrender monkeys" and "freedom toast" and all?
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Friggin' IDIOT - We know their names because the guns came too soon! What an imbecilic Idiot AssWipe. FUCK THE NRA!
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)that ge is not anti 2nd amendment. His father is former FBI agent. They have guns at the house.
They just want common sense gun regulation.
efhmc
(14,725 posts)nt
Orange Free State
(611 posts)But if Orange Dotard was there, he would have run in there and saved them, Im sure, bone spurs and all.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)Jarqui
(10,123 posts)How many deputies were outside Parkland when those students and teachers got Swiss cheesed by an AR15? At least three.
What is wrong with striving towards a school system that does not require Blaine Gaskill's to protect them from AR15 carrying nuts?
benld74
(9,904 posts)When these kids win out
But
These kids will be in history books
For all to see, Learn, emulate
janx
(24,128 posts)lastlib
(23,217 posts)Initech
(100,065 posts)PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)But these particular kids are starting a national movement, and it has legs, is growing. I think the NRA has bitten off more than it can chew.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)They deserve to be anonymous. They can't because of shitty AR-15 nutters. Duh...
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)If they did, they would know how repugnant they sound.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)every shooting creates more of these stories and we have a whole generation who grew up with this shit and is fed up and demand action. This generation will hold politicians accountable.
The kids really went after the money. They calculated how much each student's life is worth based on NRA donations to Marco Rubio. $1.05 per student.
weissmam
(905 posts)The nra is scared , good
lastlib
(23,217 posts)fighting for their lives.
Sam McGee
(347 posts)When you challenge the powerful, first they laugh at you.
Then they mock you.
Then they attack you.
Then you win.
Permanut
(5,602 posts)that is, Colion Noir and the NRA and those who support them. That would be the NRA that represents less than 10% of gun owners, but who present themselves as the sole guardians of all gun policy. And who are spending millions to buy that policy from psychopathic Republican reps and senators.
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)if you NRA zealots (and Russians too!) didn't keep sending him money. Bugger off, Noir!
'Noir' means 'black', in French, as in "as noir as your fucking soul, asshole".
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Those kids are way smarter than that doofus. They will turn that phrase around on him.
DBoon
(22,357 posts)If you were shot with your own gun, nobody would remember you
Live by the gun, die by the gun
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)There were few similarities between the Maryland and Florida school shootings.
The Maryland shooter seemed to be targeting certain students and used a pistol at close range meaning the SWAT officer had the same fire power as the shooter and a huge training advantage. (I also have not heard who's bullet took the shooters life as both fired 1 round in the engagement so suicide is a real possibly).
In Florida it was a weapon of war (AR-15) where the shooter fired at anything that moved. There is no way of knowing what would have happened in Maryland if the shooter would have used an AR-15, shooting anything that moved. The officer in Maryland was a hero. I'm not disputing that. But for the NRA to claim the outcome would have been the same is unknowable, irresponsible and cruel.
Let's see how that works with MAGA! https://www.facebook.com/DrumpFun/photos/a.902994263176769.1073741828.894591394017056/1102450443231149/?type=3&ifg=1
miyazaki
(2,239 posts)underpants
(182,778 posts)That would give all the context a normal person would need.
no_hypocrisy
(46,083 posts)happier if Parkland never happened and they had stayed anonymous until they achieved something on their own in the future.
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)That they each would have preferred going to Prom, graduating, and going off to college (or what ever is next) in relative anonymity, if they could have done so without the shooting...
riversedge
(70,197 posts)atreides1
(16,076 posts)The NRA put their token African-American out to do the taunting!
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)That is all I associate them with now.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)What kind of soulless asshat says stuff like this?
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nra-march-for-our-lives_us_5ab75f39e4b0decad04ac4d4
Words fail...
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)That's who YOU are working for, Colion, and these Parkland kids are the ones who don't get it?
I don't think so, buddy.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Seems the NRA got its talking points on this one finalized, and they're making fun of children, rationalizing Remington's bankruptcy as something other than what it is, and getting very active on message boards over the the weekend and today keeping their narrative unified with a teaspoon of righteousness.
This is their push-back week. Pretty sure it will appear weak in the face of the youth standing against them.