March For Our Lives

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...Well-. Regulated. Militia.

Because people are dying.

I think there is scope for something positive to come out of this march. However I recall the last march by women protesting against Trump was turned into a distorted tweet by Trump claiming the women were actually celebrating 1 yr of him being in office. Translation: I have very low expectations of Trump doing anything constructive

A day after massive gun control protests swept the country, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said teenage activists should prepare for potential shootings by taking CPR classes, instead of advocating for “phony gun laws.”

The former presidential candidate and current CNN commentator suggested on the network’s State of the Union show that high school students, not lawmakers, should be proactive when it comes to ending gun violence.

“How about kids, instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations where there is a violent shooter?” Santorum said.

Santorum added that while he’s “proud” of the teenage activists who organized Saturday’s protests, their energy would be better spent tackling the problem at the individual level.

“They didn’t take action to say, ‘How would I, as an individual, deal with this problem? How am I going to do something about stopping bullying within my own community? What am I going to do to actually help respond to a shooter?'” Santorum said.
“Those are the kinds of things where you can take it internally and say, ‘Here’s how I’m going to deal with this, here’s how I’m going to help the situation,’ instead of going and protesting and saying, ‘Oh, someone else needs to pass a law.'”

Backlash to the politician’s statements was swift and firm, with some online commenters noting that CPR likely would not be used to treat a gunshot wound anyway.

"Wait, I'm not done mocking children for caring about issues like gun violence and for having the courage I don't have to speak their opinions publicly, showing their own face!"

Stay classy, WP gun nuts!

Oh and hurry, let's rip up the Constitution! Because guns are evil

Why is everyone's first defense "Oh they're just dumb high schoolers what do they know"? If they were coming out in support of guns or against abortion or something, the tune of these exact same people would be very different.

Why is everyone's first defense "Oh they're just dumb high schoolers what do they know"? If they were coming out in support of guns or against abortion or something, the tune of these exact same people would be very different.



That image is fake.

https://twitter.com/pfpicardi/status/977959864042491905

I also would like to point out that the girl who was mocked by that commenter for vomiting during her speech at the march is someone who survived being shot twice in the legs and she still has shrapnel lodged behind her eye, yet she got up in front of millions of people and spoke about her experiences--and after she got sick on stage she finished her speech. That is an incredibly brave and strong young woman.

https://jezebel.com/parkland-shooting-s ... 1824063235

Mocking her for vomiting when talking about her experiences is very low and crass behaviour.

Yep. But what can you expect of people who use guns to compensate for their physical & debate weaknesses?

Having your argument lack substance is one thing. Mocking kids who are the victims of gun violence is ... something else. I'm trying really hard not to launch any personal attacks and concentrating on the content of the comments and not the person making the comments, but I'm finding it really difficult in this instance. It's not just crappy behaviour, it's trolling behaviour. Especially posting photoshopped memes for the sake of being as offensive as possible, that is classic trolling.

"Wait, I'm not done mocking children for caring about issues like gun violence and for having the courage I don't have to speak their opinions publicly, showing their own face!"

Stay classy, WP gun nuts!

I have tried to see how attacking kids who don't want to be shot to death in their schools is a line of thinking but I just can't. #MarchForOurLives

Why is everyone's first defense "Oh they're just dumb high schoolers what do they know"? If they were coming out in support of guns or against abortion or something, the tune of these exact same people would be very different.

That image is fake.

https://twitter.com/pfpicardi/status/977959864042491905

Because they have no logical, rational, argument against them so they discount the validity of their protests by attacking them for being young as if young people don't comprehend that they want to stay alive or something. If they had any real argument against them, they'd be arguing it instead of trying to cut people down based on the number of years they've been alive.

Seems that commenter has a thing for finding altered images of that particular courageous teenage girl. It's creepy.

I also would like to point out that the girl who was mocked by that commenter for vomiting during her speech at the march is someone who survived being shot twice in the legs and she still has shrapnel lodged behind her eye, yet she got up in front of millions of people and spoke about her experiences--and after she got sick on stage she finished her speech. That is an incredibly brave and strong young woman.

https://jezebel.com/parkland-shooting-s ... 1824063235

Mocking her for vomiting when talking about her experiences is very low and crass behaviour.