Earlier today, Colion Noir shared a message from NRA TV about the importance of Constitutional rights, even in the wake of shootings:
"It's time to put an end to this glorification of carnage in pursuit of ratings because it's killing our kids. It's time for Congress to step up and pass legislation putting common sense limitations on #MSM's ability to report on these school shootings." –@MrColionNoir #MSMsense pic.twitter.com/0CulOKEPSn
— NRATV (@NRATV) May 24, 2018
And gun grabbers just couldn’t deal.
https://twitter.com/MakeANoteOfThat/status/999719270979268608
This is UNACCEPTABLE.
— Joe Olson (@urbskymonk) May 24, 2018
So you're going to protect the Second Amendment by destroying the First Amendment. OK.
— Brad Reed (@bwreed) May 24, 2018
"The Second Amendment is there to eliminate The First" would look great on a bumper sticker.
— #occupymarwen (@Mobute) May 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/cdingil/status/999718319837003776
Of course.
Because guns don't kill children, pursuit of ratings kills children.
Or are you suggesting that the first amendment kills children? Free press?— Rachel (@Ray_drpogldnsun) May 24, 2018
This is easily the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
— Pokey Can't Dance (@AvatarOfMadness) May 24, 2018
Sure, pal. Don't worry about stopping the actual school shootings, just stop the media from reporting the shootings. So you're cool with kids being massacred in their classrooms as long as we don't talk about it, right? Get bent, dickhead.
— Persistent Woman (@PixMichelle) May 24, 2018
wow, heavy on the fascism there, skipper
— KC (@kcj27) May 24, 2018
Oh hell no.
It's not for ratings, it is simply the truth. That's what you want to stop.
A free press is key to a democracy. You know that. Is that also what you want to end? I think it is.
— DontLookAtAngie (@4Ev3rblue) May 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/JoeThrashnkill/status/999722926059409408
*destroying the 1st Amendment while advocating an insane interpretation of the 2nd Amendment to own the libs*
— The Glare (@TheGlare_TM) May 24, 2018
This is BS. Freedom of speech, freedom of the Press is in the Constitution. @nra has zero business asking for anything like this.
— RoseMSerrano (@NYCArtistRoseMS) May 24, 2018
LOLOLOLOLOL
I truly enjoy your bottomless reservoir of absolutely terrible ideas.
— Ollie McClellan (@OllieMcClellan) May 24, 2018
??????? It's literally like you think the Constitution is half a sentence in the 2nd Amendment. They rest of it you treat like a piece of trash
— Jack ?? (@jackresists) May 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/steverovner/status/999721830725414912
Don't limit guns, limit the Press's ability to report on gun violence?
JESUS H CHRIST!! Any MORON still pretending that the NRA is anything but a radical irresponsible shameful gang of weapon runners is OUT OF THEIR MINDS!!!— S.O.S. USA (@DeliaMacD1) May 24, 2018
LOL you guys are so desperate to change the subject away from your support for murder that you're advocating censorship. The NRA and your sycophants are absolutely pathetic excuses for human beings.
— we've got squirrels! (@twelfth_monkey) May 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/bdgrabinski/status/999720519384494085
WTF!? You are all insane.
— t h o m a s ☕️ 토 마스 ? (@trakblue) May 24, 2018
So your solution still allows for murdering children while at the same time disallowing free speech. pic.twitter.com/zWAuWsgxxQ
— ? (@jaytay777) May 24, 2018
Hey, speaking of missing the point … did any of these screeching gun grabbers actually watch the video? Like, the whole thing?
You didn't watch the entire video…
— NANC (@Nanc___) May 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/999724281184555010
I’m enjoying watching people who didn’t watch the video freak out over this with “er, the CONSTITUTION!1” responses, when that’s the precise point Noir is making, and explicitly makes. https://t.co/Si0do9dASw
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 24, 2018
Let’s give them another chance:
"It's time to put an end to this glorification of carnage in pursuit of ratings because it's killing our kids. It's time for Congress to step up and pass legislation putting common sense limitations on #MSM's ability to report on these school shootings." –@MrColionNoir #MSMsense pic.twitter.com/0CulOKEPSn
— NRATV (@NRATV) May 24, 2018
Did you gun grabbing doofuses get it that time?
Musician and author Mikel Jollett, who was among the many who fell right into the NRA’s trap, deleted his initial outrage-y tweet and acknowledged that he’d been trolled … but he just couldn’t resist finding a way to prove the Noir and the NRA’s point::
So, this video is a troll by the NRA.
They are trying to make the point that limiting 2nd Amendment Rights is just as unsettling as advocating to limit 1st Amendment Rights.
What they are missing is that the First Amendment doesn't kill 35,000 Americans every year. https://t.co/RncA7ke5c0
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) May 24, 2018
What a joke.
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with an additional tweet.
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