In Oath Keepers Webinar, Student Gun Control Activists Are The Enemy

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By Allegra Kirkland at TPM

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/oath-keepers-webinar-parkland-student-activists-enemy

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The Oath Keepers militia group on Monday issued an official “call to action” asking their members to serve as voluntary armed guards at U.S. schools, in order to intervene in the event of a mass shooting.

But the group doesn’t seem to think much of some of the students they say they want to protect.

During a meandering Monday night webinar held by the far-right, anti-government group, the gun writer David Codrea referred to Emma González and David Hogg, survivors of the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Parkland, Florida as “the enemy.”

González and Hogg have been at the forefront of a student activist movement urging Congress to pass gun control legislation.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Where to start,

these same people Populate Mineral and Gem and Prospecting Clubs through out the West . Not a nice bunch of people to say the least.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Those clowns are a bunch of piss-the-pants over the hill clowns that look like

they belong in Bachman Turner Overdrive. I doubt if they could hit a tin can at 3 feet. They are a nuisance.

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3. I wonder if they are NRA encouraged to have someone to protect the schoolchildren

other than the very effective and moving schoolchildren themselves. Only for the NRA position. They need schools=SAFE PLACES right away to stop the blowback they are getting, and any gun control that might result.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. I happened upon that NRA website. They specialize in shit like "smearing" Democratics as

"Socialists" as if that was a bad thing anyway. It takes almost nothing to rile up those dumb bastard oath assholes and the NRA knows how to do it. A few might show up at some school with guns all liquored up and the cops will chase them home.

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5. It is a nightmare scenario. Like a bunch of Zimmermans all filled with fantasies

playing cops.

[guillaumeb]

6. So the children are now the enemy?

What a dystopic thought.

[Girard442]

7. Did these pinheads ever think about what they will actually DO?

Imagine my working friend calls up and tells me that the cafeteria ravioli disagreed with her kid and can I bring him home from school? (Yes, I'm on the list.) So, I hop in the car and drive over to the school, and as I'm walking in from the parking lot, there's this guy. I picture him in camo and carrying an AR-15, but he might be smart enough to wear a blazer and conceal his piece. So what does he do? Ask me for ID? Ask me what my business is at the school?

'Scuse me, but who the hell are you? You're not even on school property. A cop would have a badge and identify himself. You have ID?

If he tries to flash an Oathkeeper's ID, he can fuck off. If he shows a previously concealed weapon, he's guilty of assault and it's time to dial 911. If he was openly carrying, I've already called 911, reporting a possible shooter.

I don't get it.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

8. Every arsenal-keeping "Patriot" I know is right-wing authoritarian,

50-ish and older, out of shape, and would have a massive coronary if they had to run flat-out 50 yards.
And they're all, by god, gonna protect 'Murca.