“My daughter, running down the hallway, was shot in the back with an assault weapon, the weapon of choice.”
Fred Guttenberg, who lost his 14-year-old daughter in the Florida high school shooting last week, was speaking to Republican Senator Marco Rubio and a spokeswoman from the National Rifle Association (NRA) Dana Loesch on Wednesday.
Gripping the microphone defiantly, Guttenberg asked the pair, over and over again, to “look at me and tell me: guns are a factor in the hunting of our kids”.
Watch Fred Guttenberg’s plea in the video below.
The grieving father is calling for stricter gun laws and was facing a forum meeting in Florida, televised by CNN.
In the crowd, there were students of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the shooting occurred, and the families of those who were killed and injured. Guttenberg had hundreds of angry, grieving American citizens backing his message
“[An assault rifle] is too easy to get,” he told Rubio and Loesch. “It is a weapon of war. The fact that you can’t stand with everybody else in this room and say that, I’m sorry.”
Rubio and Loesch fumbled through their justifications.
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NRA and the gun manufacturers are despicable. Big credit to the teachers union and other co’s making sure they don’t have gun manuf in their pension funds or association with nra - hit them where it hurts, in $$’s.
Surely this is where we can help - making sure our own superfunds have no gun manuf or links to co’s who co-operate with nra.
It's going to take a high level member of the NRA being shot for them to even contemplate the most mild restrictions being put on guns isn't it?
I don't think they'd care even then. They value their guns more than they value life. I've read some of these people admitting as such, though not in so many words. They usually express it as something like "mass shootings are an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of freedom".