Video: School shooting survivor refused to ask 'scripted question' during CNN town hall

https://www.local10.com/video/school-shooting-survivor-refused-to-ask-scripted-question-during-cnn-town-hall?__vfz=medium=sharebar

Video is at link.

Here is transcript of the part in question:

Pretty amazing isn't it?

Shows just another layer in how this entire thing is just one giant manufactured outrage.

The blame Trump, blame the NRA, blame Congressional Republicans ...manufactured.

The #NeverAgain "movement" ...manufactured.

The walkout ...manufactured.

And now we see that CNN is using these kids as puppets by shoving words down their throats to be regurgitated on cue.

 

who here is surpised CNN is politicizing these deaths?

 

Yeah, of course it is manufactured... Where in the world 17 children deaths shock people? IMO these kids are quite thin-skinned, don't they.

 

These deaths became political the second the NRA corrupted elected officials. What, you think previous President had their hands tied because of their love for firearms?

 

The 2nd is part of our constitution. Fail.

 

I keep hearing this. Can you provide an example of such an official, with evidence of NRA corruption?

The previous President had his hands tied because of his oath to uphold The Constitution.

 

So you admit that it was political before even the invention of CNN? Wise man.

And yeah - the whole second amendement pretty much looks like a failure today, isn't it? There are a plethora of countries that have an astounding number of firearms and yet school massacres are not part of their "traditions". Does the second amendement explain why you Yanks are so spastic?

 

The NRA goes to a great length and spends a large amount of money on lobbying to defend the Constitution – the right to bear arms. In 2013, the NRA spent on lobbying $3,410,000, while in 2014, it spent $3,360,000 [3]. The top issues that the NRA lobbied during 2014 included, but not limited to, firearms, guns and ammunition, federal budget and appropriations, civil rights and civil liberties, natural resources, and taxes. The open secrets website also indicated that during the 2014 election cycle, the outside spending for the NRA was $28,212,718; outside spending usually refers to ads and off-record spending. Over 15 million dollars off that outside spending amount was lobbied against democrats, and $24,262 was lobbied for democrats; and almost 11 million dollars were lobbied for the republicans, while 92,034 was lobbied against republicans.

https://www.omicsonline.org/open-ac...y-2332-0761-1000222.php?aid=83220&view=mobile

Your political financing system is in fact legalizing corruption. No wonder your elites are so far from the people they are supposed to represent.

 

You did not answer my question, nor did you support your assertion.

Can you provide an example of an elected official who has been corrupted by the NRA, with evidence of that corruption?

For bonus points: do you happen to know where the NRA appears in the top 20 list of lobbying groups, with regards to spending?

 

failure? Seems pretty solid to me. No one has ever been able to take our guns nor will they. School massacres are only a recent issue. I blame the media for giving them blanket coverage. What idiots dont realize is these maniacs do what gives them the most attention. The media has determined school shootings are the utmost if it bleeds it leads content.

 

Its a right.

You're saying that advocating for the protection of our rights is "corrupt".

That's just wrong.

 

your point. Its illegal for Americans to uphold and support the constitution. I feel sorry for people in other countries who dont understand freedom.

 

Sen. Marco Rubio defended accepting contributions from the National Rifle Association, telling a Parkland school shooting survivor that the NRA's influence comes from the membership it represents.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/politics/rubio-nra-money-cameron-kasky/index.html

Why should I care?

 

The second amendement fails to protect Americans, which was, I believe, its goal, furthermore in the face of a government takeover.

How many hostile government takeovers did arming citizen with mil-spec weapons prevented? Now compare this sum with the number of innocents killed. The precise answer, as you said, is failure, abject, total failure. You are the world's laughing stuff.

 

Accepting contributions is not evidence of corruption.

 

Living is also a right.

 

What a weak reply. Yes, it is. Of course. How else would you define corruption?

 

Don't feel sorry - the rest of the world doesn't have to tackle the fact that their kids are killed wholesale at schools. Feel sorry for yourself.

We feel less and less sorry for you, anyway.

 

We have duly prescribed methods for dealing with those who deprive others of their lives and none of them include neither banning the instrument they chose to use or depriving law abiding people of said instruments.

You want special exceptions because you've been conditioned to hate guns and gun owners.

Well I'm sorry, that simply doesn't fly.

 

Well, that's bullshit. I love and own firearms. I also love them less, but I do have a car too. And you know what? I don't believe anyone should have the right to own a car nonetheless.

There's a difference between advocating for self-defence and advocating for civil war.

Your "methods" obviously doesn't work, as the US have civil casualties on the level of countries which are in a civil war.

 

Yesterday I got dragged over the coals on this board for suggesting the kids were being manipulated. Thanks, CNN, for bailing me out and proving my critics wrong.

 

We can definitely agree on that.

Take the Kathryn Steinle incident for example.

An illegal murdered a woman in broad daylight and was pronounced innocent despite the fact that the evidence was undeniable.

So that's one thing that doesn't work.

Another thing that doesn't work is how soft-handed we treat offenders and repeat-offenders.

Both of these problems, btw, created by liberalism.

 

Are union donations corrupting politicians? How about foreign donations to their foindstions?

 

WTF? North Europeean countries also have a lot of firearms per inhabitants, and they are surrounded by ancient customs of political tensions, and they are far more "liberal" than you.

So what is wrong with you Yanks?

 

No NRA member has shot anyone. That’s a fact.

Also, it was an NRA instructor who shot the murderer in the Texas church last year.