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RandySF

(58,488 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 06:42 PM Mar 2018

NRA host taunts Parkland teens: No one would know your names if classmates were still alive

As they’ve 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 they’ve 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 hadn’t

“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 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.


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NRA host taunts Parkland teens: No one would know your names if classmates were still alive (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2018 OP
What a sad waste of carbon BeyondGeography Mar 2018 #1
WTF...? This is so fucked up, on so many levels... First Speaker Mar 2018 #2
Hey NRA if Putin didn't give you millions to pass on to congress, you'd be irrelevant ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #3
I'm sure these kids would gladly trade their recent fame for their friends lives back. bearsfootball516 Mar 2018 #4
This!! n/t GP6971 Mar 2018 #6
Exactly. forgotmylogin Mar 2018 #13
Exactly, because their values are not superficial like Republicans'. nt Ilsa Mar 2018 #26
I think these kids would rather have their classmates back than their names known crazycatlady Mar 2018 #5
Too fucking ignorant! world wide wally Mar 2018 #7
Colion Noir, go fuck yourself rusty quoin Mar 2018 #8
Did not have armed guards when I went to school Angry Dragon Mar 2018 #9
illogical. nonsensical. disregarded for stupid incoherent babble. -nt poboy2 Mar 2018 #10
Alternative Fact World rainin Mar 2018 #11
And their classmates would still be alive if there wasnt a gun in the school... Oneironaut Mar 2018 #12
The media hasn't completely ignored Blaine Gaskill oberliner Mar 2018 #14
BUT they have not decided if the gunman shot himself But bluestarone Mar 2018 #16
But the premise that his actions were not covered is false oberliner Mar 2018 #19
Ah i gotcha good point!! bluestarone Mar 2018 #25
My response to anyone who makes the bullshit statement Mariana Mar 2018 #36
The sad thing is Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2018 #15
He's partly right. He's a profoundly insensitive... 3catwoman3 Mar 2018 #31
These are some seriously twisted malaise Mar 2018 #17
Let these PABs at the NRA keep talking stuff - it only raises the volume of these kids' pleas TheDebbieDee Mar 2018 #18
I keep hoping to see a shred of decency Progressive dog Mar 2018 #20
these 'people' are total shitstains spanone Mar 2018 #21
What a horrible thing to say. Demsrule86 Mar 2018 #22
NRA is hitting back bdamomma Mar 2018 #23
Noir should be put against a wall and shot for treason. roamer65 Mar 2018 #24
More proof the students won randr Mar 2018 #27
An epic misfire. Needs a refresher course. Freethinker65 Mar 2018 #28
NRA membership is one and a half percent of the population. It only has influence Doodley Mar 2018 #29
No. Every gun owner in America contributes to their influence. Stinky The Clown Mar 2018 #32
The simple fact of owning a gun contributes to this and emboldens these ghouls Stinky The Clown Mar 2018 #30
This is going to bite the NRA in the ass big time. Laffy Kat Mar 2018 #33
No one gives a shit what the NRA thinks because it is a dying Lint Head Mar 2018 #34
Pure scum n/m RhodeIslandOne Mar 2018 #35

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
2. WTF...? This is so fucked up, on so many levels...
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 06:45 PM
Mar 2018

...you hardly know where to start. Asshole--their classmates *aren't* alive. They're dead. Thanks to guns. And these kids are going to outlast you damned sociopaths.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. Hey NRA if Putin didn't give you millions to pass on to congress, you'd be irrelevant
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 06:45 PM
Mar 2018

So go fuck yourselves and make sure the safety is off.

forgotmylogin

(7,520 posts)
13. Exactly.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 07:20 PM
Mar 2018

If the NRA wants to stop generating activists against their cause, their cause needs to stop killing people senselessly.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
5. I think these kids would rather have their classmates back than their names known
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 06:47 PM
Mar 2018

They should be focusing on things like their grades, who to take to the prom, college, etc just like most high school kids do.

The gunman took that away from them.

world wide wally

(21,738 posts)
7. Too fucking ignorant!
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 06:49 PM
Mar 2018

He thinks these kids just want to be famous like their inept President or something?
Fuck you, asshole.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
9. Did not have armed guards when I went to school
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 06:53 PM
Mar 2018

What changed??............GUNS. we took guns to school and no one got killed...........

rainin

(3,010 posts)
11. Alternative Fact World
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 06:57 PM
Mar 2018

Let me correct this asshole's story.

First:
The officer fired his weapon.
A witness reported that the gunman killed himself.
The police said it will be some time before they know for sure how the gunman died.
The media continues to report (prematurely) that the officer fired the fatal shot.

Second: The gunman had a pistol, not an AR15!

bluestarone

(16,859 posts)
16. BUT they have not decided if the gunman shot himself But
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 07:29 PM
Mar 2018

They sure play it up that He stopped the gunman! Good thing he was there BUT maybe even he was too late?

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
36. My response to anyone who makes the bullshit statement
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 08:41 PM
Mar 2018

"The media completely ignored XYZ story!!!" is "Then how did YOU hear about it?" Invariably it was from a media story. Dumbasses.

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
18. Let these PABs at the NRA keep talking stuff - it only raises the volume of these kids' pleas
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 07:31 PM
Mar 2018

for gun regulation! The taunts of the NRA act as an accelerant for the gun regulation reform that these kids are crying for...

roamer65

(36,744 posts)
24. Noir should be put against a wall and shot for treason.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 07:40 PM
Mar 2018

The NRA is now a front organization for Russian intel.

Doodley

(9,041 posts)
29. NRA membership is one and a half percent of the population. It only has influence
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 08:16 PM
Mar 2018

because it is corrupt to the core and buys politicians.

Stinky The Clown

(67,761 posts)
30. The simple fact of owning a gun contributes to this and emboldens these ghouls
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 08:19 PM
Mar 2018

You don't need to be an NRA member. You just need to be a gunner defending your misguided notion that you have a right to own a gun.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
34. No one gives a shit what the NRA thinks because it is a dying
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 08:39 PM
Mar 2018

archaic clusterfuck of idiotic gun humpers. The NRA's blood lust will be snuffed out. Sooner or later.

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