NRA and Supporters Totally Shade Teens Who Organized National Movement With Photoshop and Yelling Guy
PoliticsPerhaps jelly that a teen who co-mobilized over a million people for gun control legislation has about twice as many Twitter followers than the NRA, the organization and its supporters have weaponized with Photoshop, conspiracies, and attack ads against Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting survivors. Normally I’d prefer to avoid giving a platform to delirious ranting, but this is a democracy.
Or the premise of March for Our Lives is to restore democracy by reducing the voice of the NRA which overpowers the voice of voters by raising money from its members through messaging and then donates that money to politicians; and maybe most importantly, by telling members how to vote. Whatever, they’re loud.
First, their contenders: the best of yesterday’s March for Our Lives speeches were messages of love and solidarity delivered by children whose arguments are based on factual evidence supported by statistics. These included an 11-year-old quoting Toni Morrison; Martin Luther King Jr’s 9-year-old granddaughter quoting Martin Luther King Jr; Chicago teens protesting the endemic and ignored gun violence in their communities; and a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student bringing up to 800,000 people to silence. Politifact checked the speeches and messages on the March for Our Lives site, and most statements were either correct or approximate.
As a riposte, the NRA unleashed an out-of-control dumpster flinging flaming garbage everywhere at everybody. Hey, here’s a digitally-aged Emma Gonzalez tearing up the Constitution (originally, a paper shooting target) courtesy of an NRA supporter: