Did March For Our Lives Go Too Far Attacking The Right?
Last updated: April 30, 2020 · Originally published: March 26, 2018
While March For Our Lives was going on on Saturday, many on the Right felt personally attacked. As CBS commentator Michael Graham put it –
Saturday’s #MarchForOurLives was billed as a protest against gun violence. But for many Americans on the Right, it felt like they were under attack.
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For a non-partisan rally against gun violence, there was an awful lot of messaging about a Republican President and GOP elected officials like Sen. Marco Rubio. As student speaker Sarah Chadwick put it: “We will no longer be hunted down and treated like prey by politicians who simply don’t care about us.”
David Hogg was even more explicit: “The cold grasp of corruption shackles the District of Columbia…To those politicians supported by the NRA, that allow the continued slaughter of our children and our future, I say: Get your résumés ready.”
Graham then asks,
So how does it feel to spend a day being called a child murderer on national television?
“You get used to it,” said Cam Edwards, host of the popular “Cam and Company” show on NRATV. “This is nothing new, maybe just more ramped up.”
Edwards makes the point that the NRA is a membership organization and an attack on it is an attack on the 6 million or so people who choose to send in their $40 a year because they want to protect what they see as a constitutional right.
“NRA members are some of the best people in this country: first responders, educators, veterans, moms and dads,” Edwards says. “Not people who care more about their guns than their kids. And certainly not domestic terrorists.”
There’s something else Americans who support gun rights are: Registered voters.
Not only are gun rights supporters heavily active in politics, gun supporters also didn’t sit idly by on Saturday. Several counter-protests were also happening across the country.
Among these demonstrations:
- Hundreds 2nd Amendment supporters came out for the March For Our Guns rally in Helena, MT*
- Over 1000 supporters were expected at a similar rally in D.C.
- Thousands of gun rights supporters marched throughout Michigan
- About 1000 supporters showed up in Salt Lake City for March Before Our Lives
- Hundreds of protestors also came out in Sandpoint, ID for March For Our Rights
At the same time, the NRA posted an interview discussing the importance of gun rights –
CBS’ Graham ends his piece discussing the importance of the NRA in this discussion –
And while support for the NRA has fallen recently—37 percent favorable, 40 percent unfavorable—that’s still more than 100 million Americans with a positive view this “child murdering” organization.
If these Americans get the message that Democrats and the Left are declaring them Public Enemy #1, if they feel like their culture and values are under assault, that’s one way to get a relatively unmotivated GOP base fired up for the midterms.
Delaney Tarr, one of the student speakers said on Saturday: “We will take the big and we will take the small, but we will keep fighting. When they give us that inch, that bump stock ban, we will take a mile. We’re not here for bread crumbs. We are here for real change.”
Gun control advocates should hope America’s gun owners didn’t get the message.
Did you get the message? How did you (or do you everyday?) show your support for our 2nd Amendment? Let us know your views in the comments.
*Correction: A reader identified an error that was corrected – The mention of “St. Helena, MT” was edited to “Helena, MT”. (April 2, 2018)
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I would think that a counter protest against the advertisers that departed from the laura Ingraham show would be a good move. Granted, she should not have said what she said and how she said it, But an apology has been issued and it’s time to move on. David Hogg has become the puppet and voice for the gun control advocates and has accumulated way too much air time. We are in battle unlike any we have seen before, merely to protect our rights.
These are children, naive, ignorant, hormonal and oblivious of History. They are being helped with money for travel and expenses. The Press is giving them all the rope they can handle.
I fully support the NRA and have for decades, I am a responsible gun owner and have never harmed anybody or will unless it’s self defense and life or death.It makes me truly sick how democrats and liberals are exploiting a terrible tragedy to attack the NRA and all of its members maybe they should move to China or Russia and see how things work there where gun rights don’t exist I think that may make them see things in a real view as they became slaves and pawns of a corrupt state and government, go there and try it out and get back with us!
This Manchurian-Candidate-Media-Puppet-HitlerLike-Black-ArmBand-Waving-Hogg-Idiot – is setting up more and more school shootings! Future School Shooters are salivating for the chance to see more Hogg-Provided, Gun-Free Zones. The Blood Will Be On His Hands! More Kids – and adults – will die from his gun-grabbing efforts! May he Fail Miserably for the REAL Greater Good!
Living in an open carry state, I practice my 2A rights on a daily basis. I don’t open carry all the time, but trust me when I tell you I carry “all” the time,
Gettin real tired of people not voicing opinions because they fear. backlash for being critical of “kids”. Now it’s getting out of hand. Kid or not they don’t know anything and they are being used to the fullest extent by viscous organization. They have no idea who and what these orgs. are. The slanderous Media Matters the Womens March who has ties to Luis Farekon and Sicialist George Soros who pull the purse strings for them all. They have no idea the vial people so their in bed with. Pretty sad. Do anybody think David Hogg came up with the idea on his own to go after Laura Ingraham’s sponsors???? C’ mon that’s been the vial Media Matters MO for the last year now. Just ask Glen Beck Bill Oreilly Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity just to name a few. They all been subject to it by Media Matters. They try to destroy the one with whom they disagree. So trust a believe David Hogg is not knowledgeable enough to come up with this on his own. Now if that’s taken as an attack on him fine. This kid has attacked the NRA Marci Rubio Scott Walker Dana Loesch. and all the GOP in general. And has been quite vulgar in doing so. As far as concerned he no longer get a pass from being a “survivor” or a “kid”. He put his big boy pants on when he got in the ring and he got in bed with the far left wackos supporting him.
My wife and I, and our five, college-educated adult children, vote in every election. We call, email, and write our elected representatives and financially support those candidates who pass muster with us. I seriously doubt any of the teenagers paraded out in front of the news media recently after the shooting incident in Florida will be involved in anything but their own personal endeavors after their “15 minutes” in the spotlight has faded. However, my family and I will continue as we always have to support and vote for those candidates who best represent our unique American values, and support the Constitution.
Oh, and I don’t support the NRA either. Now I support NAGR. They don’t cave to the gun grabbers and to selfish interests of the leaders of the group.
Did you hear the wording of these “speeches”? They were not written by these schills as the wording was not from kids. They spoke of “their” children when they don’t have any. They spout the same TALKING POINTS that the full time gun grabbers use.
No, these kids are being used. And anyone who listens to them will be deceived.
Remember. These are the very kids the Democrats want to be allowed to vote.
I am a law abiding citizen and a voter. I have grown up around guns all my life had my first one when I was 8 years old. All of my children and theirs have grown up with weapons and none of us have thought about hurting or injuring anyone. My personal thought are these children first of all have no idea and not educated enough about what the real issue is and that they are looking to blame the problem on innocent people. The parents of most of the children these days don’t even know how to raise their own children to stop this issue and don’t get the kids help that is needed for the select few that do have issues. Weapons are not the issue it is people that have no respect for themselves much less others due to the way they were raised. If we took away their right to speak, drive, or in general tell them they can’t do anything until they are 21 years of age what do you think they would do then. Also there are more mass killings a day by cars and other things than by weapons. Quit looking at stuff on the internet as the old saying goes don’t believe everything you read and only rely on what you yourself knows.
It is easy to blame an object for a problem. It is difficult to find the root cause and work toward a solution.
I just can’t believe that some of these people would say that the people who spent so much time writing the Constitution didn’t know what they were doing ! Why are these people coming up with these thoughts ? Well it is because the left wants to change America into a third world country, they have lost all sense of reality . Continue immigration so we will be so overpopulated only the rich can survive, take all of the guns from the law abiding crowd, so when government does take over , there will not be much of a fight. The list goes on and on. The leftist liberals in this country have lost what little bit of sense they had.
The only difference between the USA and every other second rate nation in the world is the Bill of Rights….do NOT mess with it..period!
What happened to the FBI who knew about the MSD shooter and totally dropped the ball?? What happened to the on duty police that was on site at MSD and took a defensive position outside the building?? And the church shooter that was allowed to possess a weapon after a discharge from the USAF and domestic charge?? All because the USAF failed to file the paperwork to keep a weapon out of his reach?? Lets really open our eyes and look at who really is to blame for the action of the disturbed individuals committing these terrible crimes! And who allowed this to happen! I’m sure it was not the law abiding citizens. You know the people that have gone through proper training and background checks to own and carry a handgun legally for protection. Now you want to infringe on my 2nd amendment right because I don’t even have a traffic violation?? The anti gun advocates and news media are NOT giving the real and true stats on gun crimes and who is committing these crimes. Google it yourselves and read the truth! The very sad and real truth is not what the anti gun and media are portraying as the truth…..
Joined NRA, SAF, GOA, FPC & two state organizations. Wrote my Congressmen & senators. Spread the message. Educate those who only know the lies they’ve been told by the media.
How did I show my support? I am in the process of paying life membership dues to the NRA. I am also forwarding countless messages concerning Americans inalienable rights to: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness … and as it so concerns “life” … nothing is more sacrosanct than the very protection of that “one” life we each have to live on this planet and its guarantor our 2nd Amendment.
How they are going about things stink !
Calling us Child Killers etc
Blood on our hands !
How I dislike these FL kids ! ETC
And the Dems ! etc
If this ban for assault rifes etc would go thru ?
It word hurt company’s, Suppliers and work forces !
March for our lives are a bunch of non-informed jerks.
It is sickening that the left has children marching in the streets to promote their agenda to ban guns. These ignorant souls don’t even recognize they are marching to end their own freedoms before they can even enjoy many of them. Only by promoting facts will we change the minds of these people. Right now it is all emotions, but for most logic will prevail if we continue to move them in that direction. Take away their drivers licenses because some else had an accident when texting and maybe they will see a correlation begin to emerge.
If you looked closely at the edited news coverage of the events, thousands of the so called march for life protesters were from black lives matter, moveon, abortion rights activists and resist Trump supporters. Actual attendance of teenagers was less than 10%.
Napoleon was imprisoned on St Helena (an island)
The pro gun rally was in Helena, Montana (the capital city – – you should have learned that in grade school) not St Helena Montana.
Thank you for pointing out the error! It has been corrected. Apologies to all Montanans.