Last week, Oliver North attacked the kids who survived a mass slaughter at their high school in Parkland, Florida. Now the father of one of the kids killed has a few things to say to the new NRA president.
Oliver North is the new president of the NRA. And, last week, he said some hateful things about the kids who survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. North said that the kids who’ve turned activists fighting gun violence are “criminals” and “terrorists.”
Fred Guttenberg lost his 14-year-old daughter Jaime in that mass shooting. After North’s disgusting remarks, Guttenberg told Newsweek that the kids and their families who are now fighting for gun safety are not terrorists. “We’re people with a broken heart,” he said.
“The NRA and people like Oliver North, to them, it’s a job,” Guttenberg said. “They could retire and go on with their life. I can’t, because my daughter isn’t here.”
North says that the NRA has become the victim of “civil terrorism.”
“They call them activists. That’s what they’re calling themselves. They’re not activists — this is civil terrorism. This is the kind of thing that’s never been seen against a civil rights organization in America,” North told the Washington Times.“You go back to the terrible days of Jim Crow and those kinds of things — even there you didn’t have this kind of thing. We didn’t have the cyberwar kind of thing that we’ve got today.”
“What they did very successfully with a frontal assault, and now intimidation and harassment and lawbreaking, is they confused the American people,” he said of the activists.
Parkland students Lauren Hogg and Cameron Kasky responded right away.
Never knew that not wanting to die by being shot by an AR-15 in my classroom was considered terrorism.
Thanks @NRA now I know. https://t.co/BdDIB2tt4a— Lauren Hogg (@lauren_hoggs) May 11, 2018
Go ahead, North.
It speaks so beautifully for the NRA’s true colors that they put this crook in charge. https://t.co/JWoDyeuIO8
— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) May 11, 2018
Then, Fred Guttenberg weighed in with several posts of his own. The Parkland dad said, “My daughter was murdered by an AR 15 … so I do not care what you think of me.”
group. We will end your reign of terror and we will pass common sense gun safety in this country. Your remarks sound like the remarks of a lobby that has already lost the argument and so you attack us.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) May 11, 2018
Oliver Noth, my daughter was murdered by an AR 15 in school and nothing changes that, and so I do not care what you think of me.https://t.co/nGIV8e55CH
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) May 11, 2018
We have been swept up in the determination to pass common sense gun reform. We will succeed. If that bothers you, then quit your new job or contact me to become a part of the solution.https://t.co/fyp3bBSP9h
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) May 11, 2018
