Teen survivor to NRA lapdog Republicans: Rip off your shock collar

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"Our politicians are cowards."


Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students returned to class Wednesday for the first time since the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, but still found time to school Trump and the Republicans.

On CNN’s “New Day,” survivor-turned-activist David Hogg told co-host Alisyn Camerota that political inaction since the shooting made him feel less safe about returning to school.
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The Republican playbook following mass shootings has long been to wait out public pressure, then do nothing. But this time, things are different. Public support for gun control is overwhelming — including among Republican voters — and this group of survivors is keeping the pressure on. Not only will they outlive these politicians, they will outlast their cowardly waiting game. - Shareblue

Title quote in linked story, also in the video clip.

[gratuitous]

1. Cue the whining from the delicate politicians

Not to mention the whining from our friends at Fox, who will all complain about those mean high school kids who think they're so entitled to have an opinion just because they survived a gun massacre and watched their friends and classmates die right in front of them. Don't they have any appreciation at all for how tough it is for Republican office-holders and the on-air personalities at Fox? Why those kids gotta be so callous?

[Hekate]

2. These are really splendid kids

[blake2012]

3. Cant wait to hear from conservative snowflakes

Ever notice how authoritarian GOP love to diminish this younger generation? Disgusted Ng—hope it has instant karma for them.

[True Blue American]

4. What about Paul Ryan?

We can not take guns away from law abiding citizens!

And Mitch refuses to bring up a bill.

Meanwhile Corporations are stopping the selling of those war weapons.

Walmart just announced they quit selling them.

[stpetegreg]

7. and yet...

he doesn't hesitate to take away health insurance from law abiding citizens and would have no problem taking away SS or Medicare from people who have paid into the system their entire lives. I sure hope he gets voted out come November!

[area51]

5. Shock collar?

Not really. Too many in congress are bought and paid for stooges; it's also why we don't have a right to healthcare in this country.

[Marthe48]

6. Keep seeing comments that support now

is because the surviving kids are speaking up and pressuring politicians to act.
I don't want to forget that after other mass killings, survivors spoke up, long and loud. I get email from Sandy Hook parents. I read follow-ups from other mass murder survivors. I am proud of the MSD HS survivors and their families for risking their lives to make mass killings stop. But I don't want to minimize earlier efforts. The time for a law was when Clinton's ban on assault weapons expired and repk. controlled House and Senate did not renew it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. smartphone generation

These young people are about to become voters and they are very accustomed to the Internet in general, and social media in particular, via their smartphones. The general public is likewise much more comfortable with instant information access. At the time the assault weapon ban expired, I think most Internet access was still via PC rather than portable devices.

It may be a matter of timing of multiple factors, including a regime that alarms many people, a public accustomed to getting info and engaging in widespead contemporaneous discussion, and a group of survivors, with support, very nosily and angrily pointing directly to NRA and Republicans.

[Marthe48]

9. It has been over 10 years

Thank you for the thoughtful reply