Teen Girl's Pro-Gun Video Gets 2.3 Million Hits

[louis-t]

Someone has pumped this poor little girl full of shit. Guns laws will NOT keep her from shooting, practicing, or competing. There are still hundreds of guns she can use. Just because she can't transport her beloved bushmaster, she's playing the victim? What a load of crap!

"Achieving stricter gun control laws would obliterate any opportunity I could have had to attend a decent college on a shooting scholarship," she says.

http://news.yahoo.com/teen-girls-pro-gun-video-174211893.html

[slackmaster]

1. Why do you care what kind of rifle she chooses to use for her hobby?

They all do the same thing - Shoot one bullet at a time.

Magazine capacity is determined by the rules of a given competition.

So what if it's a Bushmaster? It is merely a rifle.

[upaloopa]

26. Why doesn't she just join the Marines and then she can

shoot all day long

[Hoyt]

2. Girl needs to find a hobby that does more than prepare her to be a sniper.

Bet she's a young republican, and all that goes with it.

[premium]

4. Maybe she doesn't want a different hobby?

Maybe she likes her hobby? Why do you care? Is she harming you? Has she harmed anyone else?
How do you know she doesn't have other hobbies other that competitive shooting?

And you have no idea on what her party affiliation is.

[Hoyt]

9. She's a right winger, check out her Fox interview.

And, yes her political affiliation - or that of her parents - is obvious.

[The Straight Story]

12. Maybe she is a right winger because folks in this party are telling her things like you did

and that all guns are bad even though the majority who own them never hurt anybody with them.

Our party hates when others stereotype people based on a lot of things. Yet we do so to gun owners all of the time.

[Hoyt]

17. I feel for your poor pitiful gun plight, and excuses.

[The Straight Story]

19. I don't own a gun. And I can't have an abortion. But I can still speak on both issues

Especially when I see people who react on emotion and not real information.

[Hoyt]

20. Listen to her right wing BS at hearing and on Fox news.

[The Straight Story]

22. I didn't watch it, don't care to.

She thinks some people are trying to take her guns away. She may be right. And I don't support such an effort.

Intelligent laws that address the real issues. Count me in.

[HangOnKids]

16. Bad poker hand dude

Maybe you need to reshuffle.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. I asked a friend who posted that video a question but got no response.

Maybe someone here can answer it.

Early in the video she insinuates that if gun control measures had been in place, she couldn't have gotten her scholarship.

I don't understand what measures -- short of confiscation which no one is talking about -- would have prevented her sports scholarship.

[slackmaster]

5. But there are people who are talking about confiscation. On this forum. Every day.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=119163

[OneGrassRoot]

7. No politicians...no one with a platform is saying it.

In your opinion, is that what she was referring to? The belief by many gun owners that ANY gun control measures will inevitably lead to confiscation?

[slackmaster]

13. Senator Feinstein's recent but now defunct bill would have banned the girl's rifle of choice

Why shouldn't she be able to select a firearm that works for her?

[OneGrassRoot]

32. Because life isn't fair and you can't have everything you want.

I've always wanted to use that line (thrown out ad nauseum about everything by right-wing family/friends my entire life).



But I do believe it applies here. That's my opinion.

[slackmaster]

34. I could say, and have said many times, the exact same thing to people who want a gun ban.

Goose, gander. Pot, kettle.

[frylock]

8. but that's NOT happening and it doesn't address the question posed

[upaloopa]

29. Talk only talk they can't make laws nobody is going to take

your guns away. It's time to stop using that meme. This girl like so many gunners blows everything out of proportion. More people want laws designed to reduce gun violence than want guns.

[Hoyt]

10. She lies. She hasn't gotten a scholarship, or even applied for one.

NRA simply used her, and fave her the familiar talking points and told her to whine. Her dad probably profits from guns.

[sarisataka]

38. Confiscation is more than being talked about...

There have been several proposals for confiscation that are more than internet hyperbole:

California-SB 249
Minnesota- H.F. No. 241
Missouri- House Bill 545
Oregon- HB 3200
Washington- SENATE BILL 5737

I did not do an exhaustive search so there may be proposals in other states.
Each bill contained provisions requiring owners of one or more defined types of guns to remove, render inoperable, or turn in for destruction, currently owned guns. Details of compensation were not mentioned, or "would be worked out later"


It appears her issue is in transporting guns across state lines for practice and competition. I do not know the details of the law and how it would affect her.

[Erose999]

6. Tell that to the kids of Newtown, who also won't be attending college.

[slackmaster]

15. The girl in the video has nothing to do with Newtown

[Erose999]

35. I haven't seen the video, but the impression I get is that she wants a pity party because she'll

have to use a bolt action .22 to make holes in paper targets instead of a semi-auto .223.

I work in a college, and a big one too that probably grants "shooting scholarships". If I want to make holes in a piece of paper, my office has an electric hole punch that punches 3 holes at once. And staples too. I could care less about target shooting. I don't want some madman coming in and using one of the tools of her "sport" to murder me and my co-workers.

My advice to her is what my dad used to tell me: complain in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fills up first.

[slackmaster]

37. Senator Feinstein's bill is dead. There won't be any "AW" ban in this Congress.

Or the next one.

[Initech]

11. A true product of NRA brainwashing propaganda.

[slackmaster]

25. Standard external locus of control rationalization

It's inconceivable that a 15-year-old girl could have developed a set of attitudes by herself.

[Paul E Ester]

14. The video.

I couldn't find the original video. This is a copy from some gun nuts.

[Hoyt]

18. Thanks. She must be related to Wayne LaPierre.

[Paul E Ester]

21. She's def coached by someone..nt

[upaloopa]

30. I had to stop listening to her BS. Every idea she had is repeated

everyday on this board. Nobody is taking her college education or her rights away. Just a bunch of gunner over reaction that's all it is. Just gunner obfuscation propaganda.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. I don't believe the Olympics actually use Semi-Automatic rifles for their events.

Is there really a major market for collegiate events that use such weapons? Why would there be? (Hypothetical and not)

[slackmaster]

24. Rifles used in Olympic competition are bolt-action. Pistols are semiautomatic. Shotguns can be...

...semiautomatic. But for high-power rifle competition in general (non-Olympic) semiautomatic rifles are by far the most popular.

[Hoyt]

27. Do you think Harvard and MIT, schools she mentions, sponsor such high-power

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rifle competition and offer scholarships? I doubt it. Maybe skeet.

The girl is full of it, glad legislators weren't swayed by this young right wing tool, who says she wants to run for Congress someday.

[Spartacus Maximus XL]

28. Yeesh. I could only listen to about a minute of that typical right-wing blather.

Obviously it was written for her, as she's reading it.

[thevoiceofreason]

31. Fairly thorough Google search turned up 4 of those puppies

Nationwide.

4 marksmanship scholarships.

3 of them the whopping sum of $1000 per semester (nothing to sneeze at, but I bet the ammo cost more!). And one of those had an ROTC requirement. Two of them were state-specific.

Much more prolific were scholarships from the NRA and others for essays, public speeches and presentations, and the like in favor of guns, etc.

Hmmmm. Looks to me like her speech was her application for a scholarship.

[mwrguy]

33. Brainwashed NRA attention whore gets lots of hits

Must be a slow news day.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

36. NRA talking points... so simple a teenager can understand them. nt