'Check your hearing'! Journo tries to own Rubio with ABSURD claim about #MarchForOurLives

Sarah D | 2:11 PM on March 26, 2018

On Saturday, Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted about the March for Our Lives:

Today many are peacefully exercising their #1A right to march for gun ban. Many support gun ban. But many others see it as infringement of #2A that won’t prevent shootings. Protest is good way of making a point,but making a change will require both sides finding common ground

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 24, 2018

Rubio’s tweet was a lot more mature and diplomatic than much of what came out of the protests, but Politico chief economic correspondent and CNBC contributor Ben White still had a bone to pick with it:

Weird I didn’t hear anybody talk about a “gun ban.” Interesting way to seek common ground. https://t.co/UBasTAjomX

— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) March 24, 2018

Weird. Was Ben was watching protests on Earth 2?

https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/978325138369212417

Weird, you must not have watched or listened!

— bbnanny (@NanbumHall) March 26, 2018

Did you have the sound off? https://t.co/AXjAyBpieU

— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) March 26, 2018

Check your hearing

— harrison bergeron (@harrisonberger0) March 26, 2018

If you did not hear about a gun ban what did you hear?

— James Martin (@Realityland) March 26, 2018

So you didn't watch the rally. Good to know.

— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) March 26, 2018

Did you not watch the rally or… https://t.co/TbqYu9TA4p

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) March 26, 2018

This is such an odd claim. The most common proposal from speakers or attendees at the March for Our Lives was a ban on AR-15s and similar firearms.

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) March 26, 2018

The organizers are very vocal, and have been for weeks, about their desire for a ban on certain guns as well as certain magazines.

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) March 26, 2018