Parkland Shooting Survivors Handed the NRA's Dana Loesch Her Ass on CNN
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The teenage survivors of the Parkland, FL, high school shooting—joined by high schoolers across the nation—have been rising up to say enough is enough and press for real gun control. Last night, in a forum on CNN, those teens got the chance not only to roast the hell out of politicians but also to completely hand the National Rifle Association’s representative, Dana Loesch, her ass.
It started when Emma Gonzalez, a Stoneman High School student, took the mic to ask a simple question: whether Loesch thinks it should be more difficult for people to obtain weapons like the AR-15 used to kill 17 of her classmates and teachers last week.
After taking the time to patronizingly thank Gonzalez for speaking up, Loesch—who’s infamously starred in a string of insane NRA videos—tried to steer the debate in another direction, emphasizing that the gunman was a “crazy,” “insane monster” and saying, “this individual was nuts.”