The Parkland Students Went on Fox News and Perfectly Explained Why the NRA Is Wrong

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BRANDON E. PATTERSON at Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/the-parkland-students-went-on-fox-news-and-perfectly-explained-why-the-nra-is-wrong/

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Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Washington, DC on Saturday to protest gun violence and call for stricter gun laws. The March For Our Lives was organized by student survivors of the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, several of whom have become prominent leaders of a new wave of activism around gun control in the wake of the shooting.

Two of the students, Delaney Tarr and Cameron Kasky, appeared on Fox News Sunday to lay out what they sought to accomplish with yesterday’s march. The interview’s most striking moment came, however, when one of the students slammed the NRA in response to a question about the student’s true agenda. Fox’s Chris Wallace asked Kasky to respond to a clip of one of his classmates seemingly accusing supporters of the march of wanting to take guns away from law-abiding gun owners during an interview that aired yesterday on Fox. “The NRA wants people to think that,” Kasky said. “They’re fear mongers. They want to sell weapons by exploiting people’s fears. So the second we want to put common sense regulations on these assault weapons, the NRA will say ‘They are trying to steal every single one of your guns.’ And people believe them. Fortunately, the majority of the American people see past this.”

Fox News released a new poll on Sunday that backs up Kasky, with a majority of Americans supporting enhanced gun control measures, such as universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons.

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[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

1. All it takes to stop a man with a military-style weapon

is a teenager armed with facts.

Keep going, kids!

[griloco]

2. Kids today...

[BlueSpot]

3. ...are freaking awesome!

[certainot]

4. problem is talk radio, not fox

there is a challenge and occasionally alt voices on fox

talk radio dominates 40 states with 80 senators and it's a monopoly with NO challenge until dems figure out they can use artificial intelligence (eg sonix.ai $5/hr) to transcribe talk radio so it can finally be read not heard and included in the free speech spectrum

[erronis]

6. Thanks for that link. I, for one, will not listen/watch "news" programs. I want to scan/skim

And digest, sometimes with data-mining software.

NPR and other streaming programs are not what I want. I need headlines that I can dig into if I'm interested.

I tend to be more interested in science, world affairs, humanity, etc. than politics or the dump discussions. If it isn't something that I care about I need another channel. Not a channel filled with the same mind-numbing crap that is spread across the airwaves.

Not to say that I don't enjoy a half-hour or so of NPR but once I've heard the content it becomes repetitious.

[aikoaiko]

5. I'm not thrilled with the prospect of a new AWB and I'm not selling guns

I've said it before, but banning access to guns is taking away guns to those who like to continue to have access.

I know many here are fine with that, but not me.

Putting them on something like NFA restrictions would probably do the job and prevent access to the wrong people.

[BlueSpot]

7. To hell with your thrills

And now you can complain about how few posts I have.

[ExciteBike66]

8. I'm a confirmed gun grabber...

but I would be cool with starting out with NFA-style restrictions that made AR-15s cost thousands of dollars.

The restrictions need to apply to handguns too, though, since those are the real problem in this country.

[aikoaiko]

9. I was thinking free registration for a year to help prime the pump.

If the goal is to make AR-15s significantly more expensive I don’t think it will work.

[ExciteBike66]

10. Won't work for what purpose?

Economically speaking, access will decrease as cost increases.

As a general matter, background checks are only half a solution, since every "bad guy with a gun" starts off as a "good guy" (i.e. no criminal record).