Posted on 03/19/2018 6:49:25 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last month, survivors have mobilized the #NeverAgain movement to push for school safety and stronger gun legislation.
Two vocal leaders, David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez, spoke with CBSN Monday to discuss the movement and why they believe they can through the partisan divide on gun control and drive real change in policy.
Both Hogg and Gonzalez, who refer to themselves as members of the "mass shooting generation," say they've received death threats in response to their efforts in launching the movement. But they aren't letting threats deter them from making progress.
"There's always been people who are going to want to harm us," Gonzalez said. "I'm not going to pretend that this like opened my eyes to a cruel and harmful world ... When it comes right down to it, we already knew that this world was going to be tough. So getting death threats like that doesn't really faze us."
Asked about the NRA's response to their movement, Hogg responded: "I think it just goes to prove what exactly they are. I don't think NRA members are bad people at all. I think they're responsible gun owners that want to become politically active and make their voices heard in this democracy, and I think that's an excellent thing.
"I think the problem comes in when it's people at the top of this organization that don't listen to their constituents and continue to scare people into buying more guns, creating more violence, so they can scare more people and sell more guns," he continued. "The people at the top of the NRA are no longer working for the people that are in their organization. They're working on behalf of the gun lobby."
Both Hogg and Gonzalez say the NRA has reached out to them, but not in a positive way.
"The way that they've been reaching out to us is basically threatening us," Hogg said.
"They've been instigating things," Gonzalez added. "And then, when we reply, they like shy back away. They can dish it out but they can't take it."
Hogg says leading the movement is helping them cope with the horrific incident at their school in which 17 people were killed.
"I think this is our way of coping," he said. "Working together and being around our friends in such a time of horrible tragedy and suffering, and making sure that nobody else has to go through this suffering, at least try to make sure that they don't, is our way of coping -- to ensure the safety and future of many Americans. But the fact that 3,000 people, essentially the equivalent of our entire school body, has died since the time of our shooting as result of gun violence is a testament to the serious issue that we have in this country."
Meanwhile, nearly 500,000 people are preparing to march on the nation's capital this weekend in support of gun control and school safety measures. Many of those marching will be students. The event follows last week's nationwide walkout, when students from nearly 3,000 schools walked out of their classrooms for 17 minutes in memory of the 17 victims.
During a conversation on "CBS This Morning," Hogg said his message to other high school students is: "Make sure you get out and vote, that you're registered to vote so you can vote in the primaries and stay educated for the rest of your life because the seeds of corruption are always being showed."
Gonzalez and Hogg are among the student activists featured in the documentary "39 Days," which airs on CBS Saturday, March 24 at 9 p.m./8 p.m. CT.
Which lesbian is Hogg?
Oh really? Then by all means, quit whining about it.
David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez = America’s Hitler youth.
Well another one of the Parkland Trained Chimps accused the NRA of “basically killing” those 17 people at the school. Now the NRA is “basically threatening” them. Basically, I think these little CNN trained chimps are “basically” full of sh*t.
guess i best wash my BLACK GUNS MATTER tshirt for the weekend. might be time to change out flags out front too. think i have a new Gadsden flag in the bunker.
basically ?
We are losing the war on this one.
What a precise statement defining the nature of any type of a threat. Basically pure childish BS.
Please improve your posts by always posting a black and white picture of the Hogg thing beside every picture of the Goebbles thing. Hogg looks like Goebbles left a frozen sperm sample that was used with a local truck stop $25.00 whore to hatch out Hogg.
Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See Hysteric.] (Med.) A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits. [1913 Webster] Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing, and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the throat. The affection presents the most varied symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment alone. Hysteric
My first thought. Either they are or their aren’t.
“Basicllly” is BS.
“I don’t know what to do, Dad.”
“About what?”
“My girlfriend. She’s basically pregnant.”
“Leave me alone.”
The humble man - the one who will find peace and happiness - spends his time looking for the seeds of corruption within himself. Those are pretty much the seeds you have deal with.
Hogg leaves his garden untended, criticizing the gardens of others. Meanwhile, the kid grows more corrupt by the day, and more unable to see that corruption by the day. And of course he gets a helping hand by the evil and ignorant left who pretty much hand out free seeds and will even plant and water them for you.
I'm assuming he said sowed and not showed, sure hope so.
On the day Rick Scott signed the new law in FL, 7,000 people attended a gun show. You know how many protested the erosion of their rights at the capital?
About a half dozen. Pathetic. This is why we lose.
So when can they basically be charged with slander?
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