The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School survivors have been met with public support from Taylor Swift, the New England Patriots, the Obamas, and so many others. The students have also faced an undeserved amount of criticism. The NRA, in particular, has made multiple questionable choices in the wake of Florida shooting.
The latest NRA offense came on the eve of March for Our Lives from Colion Noir, an NRATV host, who told the Parkland students "no one would know your names" if the shooting didn't happen. The Parkland shooting left 17 dead, including 14 students and three staff members.
Noir, whose full name is Collins Iyare Idehen Jr., is a lawyer and guns rights activist from Houston. His YouTube channel has over 650,000 subscribers, as Washington Post points out.
"To all the kids from Parkland getting ready to use your First Amendment to attack everyone else’s Second Amendment at your march on Saturday, I wish a hero like Blaine Gaskill had been at Marjory Douglas High School last month because your classmates would still be alive and no one would know your names, because the media would have completely and utterly ignored your story, the way they ignored his," Noir said.
St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Deputy Blaine Gaskill is a great example of "good guys with guns," according to Noir. Gaskill is a 34-year-old SWAT-trained officer who intervened during an incident where a teenager shot his ex-girlfriend at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland. The gunman was fatally injured. Noir credits this sort of intervention as a solution to gun violence in schools.
