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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: DC area high school students have entered the US Capitol building, and are heading to Paul
I do not have a TV. at the moment. Any news on this??
Scott Dworkin
?Verified account @funder
54s54 seconds ago
BREAKING: DC area high school students have entered the US Capitol building, and are heading to Paul Ryans office to demand he pass legislation for gun reform now
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Tom Jaycox
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1m1 minute ago
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I LOVE THIS NEW GENERATION OF KIDS COMING OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL.
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Mike
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Cut to him arresting all of them just like he did a few weeks ago.
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Odds very good that they'll be arrested , dragged out , and be labelled "crisis actors"
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I love them! 💕
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11s11 seconds ago
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Good.
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ContentiousObjector
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11s11 seconds ago
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He will ignore their pleas for safety. I'm sure he has more inportant things on his mind, like the shooter at the Trump Doral Golf Club where actual wealthy people may have been harmed.
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MKul
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13s13 seconds ago
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GO GET EM! #ENOUGH
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Deborah Brigham
? @Texanna33
14s14 seconds ago
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Is the cowardly weenie going to have them all arrested?
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)Because Ryan won't do anything
riversedge
(70,204 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)it'll be for political purposes -- to take a major issue away from Democrats with the midterms coming up fast. And then after keeping power feeding their base by betraying any agreement.
The empowering victory these students need is huge national coverage of Republicans with callous egg all over their faces but refusing to act. The kind of growing of outrage that can lead to strong gun control laws, not pretend fixes.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)The Republican base is very pro-gun, pro-NRA. Passing substantive gun control legislation would severely depress Republican turnout in November.
Imagine how you'd feel about voting for Democratic senators and congressmen if every one of them voted to repeal Obamacare. It would be a complete wipeout. That's what Republicans are facing if they pass substantive gun control.
Liberalhammer
(576 posts)Other than those demographics the rest of us know the Rethugs for what they are: snake tounged traitor weasels.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)....but it shows why Republicans and Conservatives should have no place at any table when their big concern is having their guns and we just want people to get health care.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The crazies would have to be tossed some fear or outrage, easy enough, they're all excited about the Deep State spying on Trump right now. But there is real support on the less-crazy right for gun control. They know letting troubled people buy automatic weapons is insane and it's getting to them.
Reportedly, Republican turnout hasn't actually been that bad so far (darn!), but Democrats have picked up red-leaning swing districts anyway. They're desperate to stop that. And remember, Florida leaders did give some genuine although minor, and fake (like gunstocks), concessions after the last deaths there. The demand on the right, not the left, was that strong.
The one thing I'm sure of that we don't want the outrage over Repub's refusal to do gun control to just go away before November and be replaced with a renewed confidence in the Repub leadership. Not if we want real gun control or a majority in the senate and many state legislatures.
Maraya1969
(22,479 posts)They act like their entire constituent base are crazy.
underpants
(182,788 posts)Good for them.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)Thanks for the thread riversedge
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)I will say it again. Politicians ignore/mock/lie about these students at their own peril.
Many high school seniors are able to vote in the midterms. Todays juniors, seniors, and some sophomores will be able to vote in the next presidential election. They are sick of getting killed in math class.
They are taking names and kicking asses.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Theyre just little black balls of hatred and bile, lashing out mindlessly at anything they dont understand, which is nearly everything in the 21st century.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)Right on point.
mcar
(42,307 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)there's a bag of money involved.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)maybe if all those brave students who went there today were each carrying a bag of money...I'm being facetious but Ryan is so openly bought and paid for.
Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)I just love this new generation of teens they are the future of change!
duforsure
(11,885 posts)He sold out their safety for money to get re-elected over their lives. No matter what they do , or anything he says, means little because he's a traitor to this country and a liar. McConnell is as bad if not worse. Both cowards.
onetexan
(13,040 posts)evading is a coward's response
whathehell
(29,067 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)and really, everywhere. The Parkland kids were the impetus, but young people all over the country are working for gun reform.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)If 8 thousand Americans were killed today he wouldn't do a thing about it.
Cha
(297,190 posts)Like David Hoggs says.. it's up to the Young People.. #YPWW.
Leith
(7,809 posts)Remember how the Capitol police dragged people out of their wheelchairs and out of the building? They didn't care that cameras were rolling.
Today's youth are rock hard awesome.
DFW
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(53,061 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)This, and the NYC anti-bigot street party are making me so happy!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)YOU ARE ARRESTING THE WRONG PEOPLE!!!
Oh how I want them to put the cuffs on every GOP asshat!
spanone
(135,830 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,544 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Silver1
(721 posts)what kind of society are we???
How did we get here?