NRA host taunts Parkland teens
Published on March 24, 2018 at 06:55PM by Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post
As they've stepped out of the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and into the national spotlight, the Parkland, Florida, teenagers have become Twitter influencers, TV news show mainstays and the stoic-faced subjects of a Time magazine cover. But they've also increasingly become targets: Their most prominent critics are people who see them less as survivors of a tragedy and more as pawns in a larger effort to influence gun policy. The latest attack came from Colion Noir, a host on NRA TV who took to the airwaves on the eve of the Parkland teens-led March on Washington, telling them: "No one would know your names" if a student gunman hadn't stormed into their school and killed three staff members and 14 students.
Published on March 24, 2018 at 06:55PM by Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post
As they've stepped out of the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and into the national spotlight, the Parkland, Florida, teenagers have become Twitter influencers, TV news show mainstays and the stoic-faced subjects of a Time magazine cover. But they've also increasingly become targets: Their most prominent critics are people who see them less as survivors of a tragedy and more as pawns in a larger effort to influence gun policy. The latest attack came from Colion Noir, a host on NRA TV who took to the airwaves on the eve of the Parkland teens-led March on Washington, telling them: "No one would know your names" if a student gunman hadn't stormed into their school and killed three staff members and 14 students.
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