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Showing Original Post only (View all)Gun Nuts Go Batsh*t Insane With Rage Over Nationwide Student Walkout [View all]

Rather than engage in a productive conversation or simply acknowledge the students' right to express their viewpoint, the right has taken to savagely attacking them as enemies of all that is American. They're either puppets of the Democratic Party or the ones to blasme
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Dear right wing gun humping dimwits:
Telling teenagers they're all stupid liberal morons for protesting on behalf of their own safety is possible the single most perfect way to make sure that they never ever vote Republican for their entire lives. You are literally telling an entire generation of voters that they're too dumb to talk about politics right at the very moment they're starting to pay attention to politics. They're going to look at which political movement is telling them "Guns are more important than your life" and they're going to remember that forever. And since you foolishly made guns a part of the culture wars, you'll have pushed them all into the arms of the pro-choice, pro-socialism, pro-equality, pro-feminist, pro-gun control left.
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Dear right wing gun humping dimwits:
Telling teenagers they're all stupid liberal morons for protesting on behalf of their own safety is possible the single most perfect way to make sure that they never ever vote Republican for their entire lives. You are literally telling an entire generation of voters that they're too dumb to talk about politics right at the very moment they're starting to pay attention to politics. They're going to look at which political movement is telling them "Guns are more important than your life" and they're going to remember that forever. And since you foolishly made guns a part of the culture wars, you'll have pushed them all into the arms of the pro-choice, pro-socialism, pro-equality, pro-feminist, pro-gun control left.
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Soph0571
Mar 2018
OP
"pushed them all into the arms of the pro-choice, pro-socialism, pro-equality, pro-feminist, pro-gun
lindysalsagal
Mar 2018
#1
Yeah, telling a teenager that they are too stupid to have an opinion really works well
n2doc
Mar 2018
#2
Yes, they are ill-informed. The NRA types are proposing that schools should be more like the WH
oberliner
Mar 2018
#49
Ultimately schools are protected by trained lawmen with guns who patrol the neighborhood.
Gore1FL
Mar 2018
#38
The gun nuts are just getting antsy because the new space force weapons aren't available yet.
dameatball
Mar 2018
#12
Oh, I got so mad reading posts last nite that I almost blew a gasket...
Ferrets are Cool
Mar 2018
#13
Because even the gun nutters know they can't make veiled threats about shooting kids
Blue_Tires
Mar 2018
#46