and you turned over all the evidence to the authorities... right? you dint???
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.
I call BS on them...
So, basically, one can say any lie, slander, libel, false witness, perjury, or false accusation, as long as one remembers to put the word “basically” in front of it.
That basically absolves one of any culpability for the aforementioned lie, slander, libel, false witness, perjury, or false accusation.
Because, basically, the lies, slanders, libels, false witness, perjury, or false accusations are baseless, so one needs to give them some basis for basic credibility, basically.
Wasn’t there a political candidate who called the girl a ‘skinhead lesbian’ last week and dropped out of his race when criticized?
My question is: which descriptor was inaccurate?
Maybe we should start a drive to ship them a few thousand pacifiers, and a blueprint for a bigger closet...
Basically; poor babies.
and you turned over all the evidence to the authorities... right? you dint???
This ain’t rocket science, rather further proof the Republican Party is The Stupid Party, and “GOP” is the acronym for Gutless Old Party. Pathetic.
Aaaahhhhh.....my nursery school graduation picture.
Good times. Good times.
It's literally the same attention-whoring students every time though. That high school had an enrollment of 2,972 students at the start of the 2017 school year, where's the rest of them?
If they're "survivors," then everyone in New York City on September 11, 2001 is a "9/11 survivor" too.
Also, this article is from CBS. CBS had them on 60 Minutes on Sunday night, and on whatever their morning talk show is called this morning. That network is trying really hard to resuscitate this fetid corpse whose fifteen minutes with the average American are long over.
“We are losing the war on this one.”
You, and only you, are losing the war on this one.
Fixed it for ya.
Rick Scott killed his political career .
The fool will pay. .
He is going to lose big if he even wins the primary .
I am going to vote in the primary against him and any one who supported that
Stupid bill.
These two are absolutely psychotic with paranoia, delusion and narcissism. There are, incidentally, similar traits between those protesting guns/NRA and those who actually massacre.
I wonder when CBS plans to show "39 years," a normal hetero adult perspective?
Just can't help wondering...
“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,”
Damn NRA! I’m tired of buying more guns and creating more violence and scaring more people so they will buy more guns. Save me oh wise for their years bald headed woman for no reason and boy who “hoggs” the spotlight.
He was probably accurate in his description, but it looks out of place for an adult to make such a personal dig about a teenager, no matter what party she roots for. Most people would say that he ‘attacked’ her. I’m glad he took himself out of the campaign. To say something like that shows his own lack of maturity or sense of decorum.
“Sure these kids aren’t being manipulated, they’re just being themselves.”
But 5,000,000 NRA adult members ARE being manipulated.
Projection at its finest.
>Basically, I think these little CNN trained chimps are “basically” full of sh*t.
I wish Free Republic had a like button. I’m just sayin’.
you're my hero...
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