Florida school shooting survivors march on unfazed by personal attacks

[Hermit-The-Prog]

In the week since the March for Our Lives student activists have rebuffed claims of a secret plan to repeal the second amendment

Lois Beckett in New York
Sat 31 Mar 2018

In the week since they organized a worldwide protest against gun violence, student survivors of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, have faced personal attacks and accusations that they want to repeal the second amendment.
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The organizers have stayed focused on their goal: making an impact on the 2018 elections. Less than 48 hours after the March for Our Lives ended, David Hogg, one of the most prominent Marjory Stoneman Douglas student activists, announced a plan to hold town halls across American on 7 April to hold members of Congress accountable for their positions on gun laws. By Friday, they had confirmed events in 30 districts, with a goal of 535, one for every member of Congress.

Gun rights advocates and Donald Trump were quick this week to accuse the student movement of wanting to repeal Americans’ constitutional right to own guns. Trump and the National Rifle Association seized on an op-ed written by the 97-year-old former supreme court justice John Paul Stevens, which argued that activists should organize to “get rid of the second amendment” entirely, thus depriving the NRA of “a propaganda weapon of immense power”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/31/florida-school-shooting-survivors-march-personal-attacks

[katmondoo]

1. A model for us all

Focus ahead and totally ignore the every word spoken by Fox and the rest of the far right lunatics

[Timmygoat]

2. Just one thing

Now that loudmouth Ted Nugent has attacked the students, why has no-one brought up the fact that he s***t his pants and walked around in his own excrement rather than use a gun in defense of the country, he let others go to Viet Nam, he was the biggest coward.