Posted on 02/23/2018 8:49:48 AM PST by rellimpank
With stunning poise and steely confidence, Cameron Kasky, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, confronted U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., live on CNN on Wednesday evening.
“Can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the (National Rifle Association)?” he demanded. In the arena where the town hall event was held, the crowd of some 7,000 — most of them connected to the school community that was shattered when a gunman killed 17 during a Feb. 14 rampage — stood and cheered for more than 20 seconds.
After a bit of back-and-forth, Rubio answered: “No. 1, the positions I hold on these issues of the Second Amendment I've held since the day I entered office in the city of West Miami as an elected official.
“No. 2,” he went on, “No. The answer to the question is that people buy into my agenda. … The influence of these groups comes not from money. The influence comes from the millions of people that agree with the agenda; the millions of Americans that support the NRA.”
A moment later Kasky pressed the point. “In the name of 17 people, you cannot ask the NRA to keep their money out of your campaign?” he asked. “Are you gonna be accepting money from the NRA in the future?”
Rubio’s answer, greeted with jeers: “I will always accept the help of anyone who agrees with my agenda.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
It’s not NRA money that’s the problem, it’s NRA voters (barf alert)
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I often say the same thing about Democrats.
Wrong photo - should be Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
These kids will be in for a shock when they realize they've been played by the democRATS just to advance their agenda.
democRATS don't care about school children and their safety. It they did, they would have done something by now. They've been in power 8 years.
Instead, they fall back on their same old games of blaming the Republicans for killing kids and being in bed with the NRA.
That's because they have nothing else. Nothing.
I agree with the article... NRA gets all it’s “power” from the voters who support them. The writer seems to desire some kind of “final solution to the NRA voters question”. I’m sure condemn, hate and despise is a winning election strategy for 2018. DemWits do more please!
The founding fathers designed the Constitution and its amending procedures in such a way to avoid the integration of intense passions that are stirred by events like this. You wouldn't want the 1st, 4th, 5th or 6th Amendments to be infringed upon or modified by the passion of the moment, what's special about the 2nd in that regard?
What you see in teenagers in this situation is understandable, forgivable. They are not fully developed, fully functioning, entirely responsible people yet.
What you see in the adults who are managing this “movement” from behind the scenes is really despicable. They translate emotion into policy and legislation and even constitutional amendments. God save us from people like this.
As a typical move by the libtard progressives, always resort to demonizing.
And as evident, all of us know, the real goal of the libtard progressives was to remove the 2nd Amendment...
Yes, I sold my house in Florida in Jan, 2017... Between Hurricanes, shootings, crazy drivers, now this...enough!
They are determined to destroy the WASP roots of this country, which was built when Britain sent troops to seize guns at Concord. Those weapons were the key to the colonists’ right to self-determination, and both sides knew it. To this day, we are citizens while they are subjects living with a hereditary monarchy.
The left wants to import Third Worlders with no such traditions, who are quite content to let white Bolshevik commissars determine what is in their best interests.
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