Emma Gonzalez, a high school student whose existence we cats were ignorant of less than two weeks ago — but whom we now adore — just beat the NRA in followers on Twitter.
In other words, in terms that right-wing jackass and convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza would understand: Emma, 588,000 — NRA 552,000.
It's just another measure of how the Parkland kids are changing the rules of the game, and how — maybe, just maybe — the gun debate this time will be different. God knows the NRA is losing corporate support left and right. And if the anti-gun teens get their peers to boycott Florida for spring break? Hoo boy — that would be great. Like Sarah Silverman's "Great Schlep," except in the reverse.
So to keep the momentum going, we cats have a suggestion.
To the people who are in charge of Everytown for Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and Giffords.org:
Please underwrite summer internships for kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High this year. The experience will be invaluable to them. And if you want to establish a fund for that effort, please let us know — we'll support it. We cats PURR.
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