"Joy and pleasure are as real as pain and sorrow and one must learn what they have to teach. . . ." -- Sean Russell, from Gatherer of Clouds

"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg

"I love you and I'm not afraid." -- Evanescence, "My Last Breath"

“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Sunday, March 25, 2018

March for Our Lives, Part 5: The Empire Strikes Back

Actually, it's the gun-manufacturers lobby:

NRA TV has been flooding its social media channels with videos criticizing the protesters under the hashtag #MarchForOurLives, the name student survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, chose for the event. Students leading the march want legislators to raise the federal age to buy a gun to 21, close background-check loopholes for gun show and online gun sales, and ban assault weapons.

"If you’re too immature to carry a firearm, you’re too immature to make policy about firearms,” said NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch in a video posted to Twitter on Thursday evening.

But apparently not too immature to be murdered by one of those "law-abiding members" NRA keeps touting -- you know, the ones who walk around with military-grade penis substitutes.

Fun fact, speaking of Dana Loesch: Did you know that in East Asian languages -- Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese -- "L" and "R" are the same sound? And that the loach is a bottom-feeding fish often stocked by tropical fish enthusiasts in their tanks to keep the gravel clean?

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