Ya gotta figure the NRA never saw this coming. An entire generation of Americans who are sick of

[Augiedog]

what the NRA is pushing. Soon the only people who will be NRA members are those dumbasses who watch FOX news.

The NRA’s future is swirling the drain due to their willingness to kill anyone in service to their belief that the 2nd amendment trump’s all other rights, even the premise of “...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...”. Kinda hard to pursue anything if you’re dead.

These kids get that. They have watched this extremist lunacy and are saying that they aren’t gonna take it anymore. And they mean it. The NRA will stick its head in the sand, take more money from the Kremlin and tell their basement dwelling constituency to buy more ammo cause Obama is coming for their guns.

[beachbum bob]

1. NRA believe what they believe and that their power is all powerful....they forget we americans

still actually vote and we can vote out the NRA puppets in congress. The kids are doing what their parents have failed to do....ignoring the rabid cries of the NRA and their guns and death for profit.....

[FakeNoose]

6. Their belief is fraudulent, and they've abused it tremendously

It's a complete and deliberate misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment that the NRA has made obscene profits over. This bubble will pop when SCOTUS corrects their interpretation. Either that or the 2nd Amendment will be struck down and rewritten.

We can't continue with this insanity of Wild West gunslinging.

[dlk]

12. The One Thing that Can Be Counted On - The NRA (as Well as Extremist Republicans) Always Go Too Far

By putting the "right" for civilians to possess military-grade weapons over our children's lives (and everyone else's), the NRA has gone too far. By callously sacrificing thousands more of American lives than have been sacrificed in all American wars combined, the NRA may be facing much more of a backlash than they bargained for -- not just the outright banning assault weapons but also an actual repeal of the Second Amendment.

[appalachiablue]

23. Very impt. quote by Chief Justice Warren Burger, thanx for posting.

Years ago I met him at a work event when he was in retirement. In the years ahead there better be a hard turn around on gun madness and killing, and many other significant issues threatening our democracy. Millennials have unfairly inherited a powerful but damaged nation, with much work to commit to, an enormous effort and responsibility that's staggering but not impossible. Time for everyone to get to work!

[GeorgeHayduke]

21. Disagree.

The NRA may be a bunch of hacks monopolizing of the fears and propensities of a large subset on the populace, but that subset will always be there.

As a business model, and the NRA is a business, it pays to rally "the troops" with banal hyperbole.

It, not surprisingly, supports my own claims that you 'can't cure stoopid', but those are their own claims as well.

We'll never all agree on anything, and I blame myself for simply having an opinion.

The astute will understand.

[Scurrilous]

2. K&R

[Hugin]

3. The NRA earned every lick they're about to take...

Horrific events like what sparked this march can only be waved off so long.

[Mosby]

4. as a side benefit

This could be the thing that gets millennials to vote. If that happens in significant numbers the republican goal of destroying our democracy will end forever.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Saw a very interesting statistic on Rachel's show last night

78% of American adults do not own guns. Seventy-eight percent. And half the guns in America are owned by 3% of the population.

This is a war that we can win. We outnumber our foe by more than 3 to 1. Based on media coverage, I honestly believed those numbers to be inverted.

Today will mark a turning point in our history, when the masses, led by our youngest generation, take back the America that has been stolen from us. At gunpoint.

[smirkymonkey]

16. The power of NRA propaganda.

I really believed it was the other way around as well. And a overwhelming majority of people in this country favor some kind of gun control, but the NRA has politicians believing that they cannot possibly win if they take a position that favors some kind of gun control. That is fucked up. We need to counter that message and send a message to politicians that they CAN win if they put human lives above NRA backing.

[Plucketeer]

18. Thanks for posting that

I don't feel so alone now! Death tools will do their job if they get even a smidge of a chance.

[IronLionZion]

7. An entire generation who grew up watching other students be killed

while adults do nothing but project condescension down upon them. Yeah, that's not going to work anymore.

This is the generation that will finally get some sensible effective reforms.

I'm heading off to march in a bit here in DC.

[Takket]

8. The NRA represents 1 out of every 78 americans

it is high time congress listened to the other 77 of us.

[ouija]

9. NRA is big tobacco in its day

Tobacco did not kill people either. Their days are numbered in the US. They eventually have to look outside of the country to be revelant...Russia anyone? They see the tree and I highly doubt they have five million members.

[RainCaster]

14. The NRA only represents one out of fifteen gun owners

I'm one of the other group and I think they are insane. I lost my respect for them over 40 years ago.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. I wonder how many are NRA Lifetme Members who have died, moved on, or abandoned the group?

[crazycatlady]

22. my dad

They keep calling him asking for money. He tells them that he lives 40 minutes from Newtown.

[moreland01]

10. I will love the day when the NRA

is generally thought of like the KKK. When most people's first thought is that they're deplorable and socially unacceptable and not to be mentioned in public, then I'll know that these kids were successful. That WE were successful. They certainly deserve it.

[aikoaiko]

11. But then again NRA membership swelled after Sandy Hook

I think as demographics change membership will go down, but not because of anti-gun rights movements.

[floWteiuQ]

13. Spot on...

The NRA is nothing but a small penis society.

[Lonestarblue]

15. We need to start labeling the NRA as a pro-terrorist organization.

The real media also needs to start shedding light on the self-appointed militias in this country who are the major owners of military-style guns, which they are stockpiling in case they need to overthrow the government to protect the sole rights of white people. The law-breaking Bundy family and their supporters come to mind. Others include the Oath Keepers, multiple sovereign-citizen groups, and the 3 Percent Militia. According to the Anti-Defamation League, there are more than 500 such militias in this country, most of them right-wing anti-government groups that operate on conspiracy theories stoked by the NRA and right-wing media. These people are the greatest danger to our country, and we need to start treating them as such because they are training themselves and their younest members that violence is the answer to any problem. The Supreme Court’s Heller decision was one of the worst in history.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

19. And will the NRA......

Literally shoot to death the MILLIONS of 18 year old's now and who will be by November? They will NOT be voting for politicians bought by the NRA be they Republicans or Democrats.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. 2nd Amendment

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed."

The Founders knew there was civilized society as well as frontier life and rural life though one hardly needed to state it at that time.

Militia? Check. Every male was going to be a minuteman if the country was invaded.

Keep and bear arms? Keep. At home, at the ready if needed for defense from animal, native, foreigner.

Bear? From the time of Hobbes, self-preservation was paramount.

Why do we need to be armed with lethal firepower 24/7 in public? Vigilance is fine. Paranoia, not so healthy. Hard to believe they made such a blanket statement, certainly there were mentally ill at that time.