The reason the conversation is over, the reason that so many millions of people have had enough with gun violence, the reason you saw so many Republicans on the streets with signs this weekend, is that the relentless misery guns bring into our lives is something we all can see, and feel, while the dark conspiracies and “toxic masculinity” peddled by the NRA and its tribunes sound more deranged by the day.
Did you catch the NRA "hot take" on Saturday? The trolling of the brave Parkland students? How "no one would know their names" if their classmates had not been gunned down by a mentally ill teenager who had easy access to a weapon of war? That's how you know the conversation is over. One side finally is willing to trust what it sees with its own eyes. The other side mocks the teenage survivors of a gun massacre.
The Sandy Hook kids would have become teenagers this year. #MarchForOurLives— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) March 24, 2018
Listening to these students today, I know this is just the beginning. We may see sit-ins in Congress & state capitals & massive voter turn out this fall. Tragic deaths are being turned into a resurrection movement against guns & violence. Hallelujah!— Rev. Dr. Barber (@RevDrBarber) March 24, 2018
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in the nation’s capital for the march. This photo puts in perspective just how vast the turnout was. https://t.co/cAer3QdM93 pic.twitter.com/9FKDqj5iG9— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 24, 2018
Powerful moment. Stephon Clark's brother comes face to face with police officers at the protest downtown. "20 times," he says to each of them #StephonClark pic.twitter.com/vSe4S3JhFr— Liz Kreutz (@ABCLiz) March 24, 2018
I carried an M-4 in the Afghanistan desert for almost a year. If you feel you need this or another weapon of war like it to protect your home; you need to re-evaluate the way you’re living your life & make fewer enemies. These have no place in civilian hands.#VetsForGunReform pic.twitter.com/Z4xauYDbAY— Westside Fireman (@WestsideFireman) March 24, 2018
John Lewis, March 1965. John Lewis, March 2018.— Rob Sheridan (@rob_sheridan) March 25, 2018
Dude is the real deal. #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/nAK9eY8XbZ
This is what a real pro-life movement looks like. #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/ozjOUUn70N— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) March 24, 2018
I served 6 years as an Infantryman where I trained tirelessly on the M4(AR15) weapon system. 2 combat tours in Iraq and I can say that NO average citizen should own one. #VetsForGunReform pic.twitter.com/IYQq37pW1P— Not Stefhan (@Hey_its_Stefhan) March 24, 2018
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 24, 2018
This is how you know the Parkland students are winning. pic.twitter.com/ah2HfzYv1o— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 24, 2018
Olivia Nuzzi, "'This One’s Different,'" interviews Linda Beigel Schulman, whose son Scott Beigel, a geography teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was murdered protecting students in the shooting in that school:
How many times has this gone on? Oh, another school shooting. This one's different. This isn't another school shooting. This is the school shooting that's going to make the difference.
And Nuzzi adds:
While hundreds of thousands descended on the nation's capital for the March for Our Lives, Trump was 990 miles away at Mar-a-Lago, his private Palm Beach club. From 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. — enough time for a round of golf and lunch — he was at the Trump International Golf Club. . . . By 4 p.m., 334,000 trips had been reported by Metro [D.C.] officials, according to the Washington Post, a number comparable to the 2017 presidential inauguration which, according to the White House, was the biggest crowd of all time anywhere on earth.
As combat veterans, we know weapons. We salute you @Emma4Change @davidhogg111 @cameron_kasky @al3xw1nd @JaclynCorin #VetsVsTheNRA #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/YM4AgQzoYK— VoteVets (@votevets) March 24, 2018
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