CBS News: Could March For Our Lives Set Back Gun Control?

By Tom Knighton

Saturday’s March for Our Lives was many things. There’s no doubt that it was a massive protest. Just a look at the photos shows the sheer magnitude of the numbers. There were a lot of folks.

There’s also little doubt that it was about gun control. While some argued it was a protest against gun violence–which doesn’t need protesting because no one supports gun violence–the entities behind the march and the signs themselves prove it was about gun control.

Right now, the left feels energized. It thinks it can finally get somewhere with guns.

However, CBS News argues that the March For Our Lives may work against that effort.

Many student speakers gave lip service to non-partisanship. “Now is the time to come together, not as Democrats, not as Republicans, but as Americans,” student leader David Hogg said in his speech. However it was hard not to notice that some Americans were, to paraphrase George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” more ‘American’ than others.

For a non-partisan rally against gun violence, there was an awful lot of messaging about a Republican President and GOP elected officials like Sen. Marco Rubio. As student speaker Sarah Chadwick put it: “We will no longer be hunted down …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms