“Saturday’s #MarchForOurLives was billed as a protest against gun violence,” cbsnews.com reports. “But for many Americans on the Right, it felt like they were under attack.” Which reminds me of a scene from the Joan Crawford biopic Mommie Dearest . . .
You picking up what I’m putting down? CBS, of all things, gets it . . .
“Corruption?” “Slaughter?” “Hunted prey?” This is the sort of language one would expect to hear directed at the Parkland attacker and other gun-wielding criminals. These killers were rarely mentioned. Instead, the vitriol was directed at Republican lawmakers and the people who vote for them, people who “put guns ahead of our kids,” was the common refrain. Or as one sign read “Our Blood, Your Hands.”
And then there was the NRA.
“NRA = Murder” signs were widespread at Saturday’s rally, along with “The NRA Supports Terrorists” and “[Expletive] the NRA.” At least one rally featured chants of “Hey, Hey, NRA—How many kids did you kill today?”
So how does it feel to spend a day being called a child murderer on national television?
For the answer to that question we turn to Network’s Howard Beale . . .
CBS reckons gun owners are, indeed, mad as hell at Saturday’s rally, “with its acid rhetoric and progressive overreach.” In fact, it “may have been the Left’s first setback of the year.”
“They have gotten the other side revved up,” says Jim Wallace of the Gun Owners Action League, a pro-gun-rights group in Massachusetts. “The NRA’s membership is increasing, ours is increasing. We’re seeing it first hand: people who would not normally get involved are very concerned about their civil rights.”
As Daily Caller reports, interest in NRA membership has spiked thanks to the March.
Does that make the March for Our Lives wall-to-wall media lovefest a blessing in disguise? Did the antis shoot themselves in the foot?