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Eevee-Trainer
06/23/21 10:19:18 PM
#1:


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/nra-president-graduation-speech

Buzzfeed, but meh.

Videos that resulted from the prank:

Some excerpts from the article:

In a speech to the James Madison Academy 2021 graduating class, David Keene, a former NRA president and current board member of the gun rights group, called on the teens to fight those looking to implement tighter gun restrictions.

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Except, they can't. The students aren't real. James Madison Academy doesn't exist.

Without realizing it, Keene was actually addressing his comments to thousands of empty chairs set up to represent the estimated 3,044 kids who should have graduated high school this year and instead were killed by gun violence.

Change the Ref, an organization founded by Manuel and Patricia Oliver, whose son Joaquin Guac was killed in 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, held a fake high school graduation for what they call "The Lost Class" of students.

They invited Keene and John Lott, an author and gun rights activist, to give remarks to a high school graduating class and filmed what they were told was a rehearsal in a stadium of empty chairs.

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After filming, Keene and Lott were told the graduation was canceled and were not informed before the videos were released on Wednesday that the event was fake.

"Youre telling me the whole thing was a setup?" said Lott, when he responded to BuzzFeed News' request for comment. "No, I didnt know that."

The stunt was designed to highlight how powerful gun advocates speak. "These two guys are part of the problem," Manuel Oliver told BuzzFeed News. "We need to call them out, we need to show everyone this is how they process the logic behind the gun industry."

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In videos released on Wednesday, Lott and Keene's graduation speeches in which they call for gun rights protections and talk about James Madison, the Founding Father who proposed the Second Amendment are interspersed with audio from 911 calls about school shootings and the sound of gunfire.

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Gun violence is the leading cause of death for American middle and high school students. The 3,044 number was estimated by compiling firearm deaths by age since 2003 and matching it to student age.

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Guide
06/23/21 10:21:25 PM
#2:


Get fucking rekt.

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Zikten
06/23/21 10:34:04 PM
#3:


Nice

Fucking.....NICE
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Shotgunnova
06/23/21 11:10:37 PM
#4:


Nice.

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monkmith
06/23/21 11:14:49 PM
#5:


this is great.

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Weezy_Tha_Don
06/23/21 11:17:56 PM
#6:


powerful stuff, I love the message

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What_
06/23/21 11:19:24 PM
#7:


Eevee-Trainer posted...
Without realizing it, Keene was actually addressing his comments to thousands of empty chairs set up to represent the estimated 3,044 kids who should have graduated high school this year and instead were killed by gun violence.


damn

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Teh_Dr_Phil
06/23/21 11:29:52 PM
#8:


Zikten posted...
Nice

Fucking.....NICE


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monkmith
06/24/21 10:49:20 AM
#9:


this needs a bump.

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Eevee-Trainer
06/24/21 4:14:54 PM
#10:


monkmith posted...
this needs a bump.


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billcom6
06/24/21 4:15:58 PM
#11:


just an amazing troll job
top tier

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
06/24/21 4:22:24 PM
#12:


It's funny.

But did they pay him? Sometimes speakers get paid. If he got paid for it then who really won.

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Tyranthraxus
06/24/21 4:24:38 PM
#13:


I'm just curious but do they have a breakdown of how many of those students were killed on campus?

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CableZL
06/24/21 4:25:51 PM
#14:


Wait

So he gave a speech to thousands of empty chairs and didn't think to ask whether something was off

They've somehow topped Clint Eastwood by a multitude of thousands

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Tyranthraxus
06/24/21 4:28:57 PM
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CableZL posted...
Wait

So he gave a speech to thousands of empty chairs and didn't think to ask whether something was off


and filmed what they were told was a rehearsal in a stadium of empty chairs.

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CableZL
06/24/21 4:30:57 PM
#16:


Tyranthraxus posted...
and filmed what they were told was a rehearsal in a stadium of empty chairs.
Ah, I can understand if they thought it was a rehearsal

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CADE FOSTER
06/24/21 4:39:18 PM
#17:


this is great trolling
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Shezarr
06/25/21 7:08:31 PM
#18:


Blown the actual fuck out

CADE FOSTER posted...
this is great trolling


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KStateKing17
06/26/21 12:01:11 PM
#19:


Beautiful work by the organization

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Machete
06/26/21 1:09:01 PM
#20:


I agree with pretty much every post so far.
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CM_Ponch
06/26/21 1:10:52 PM
#21:


The amount of effort that went into shaming someone who won't care

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Ilishe
06/26/21 1:14:50 PM
#22:


Trolled and pwned

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ROBANN_88
06/26/21 1:17:07 PM
#23:


i don't know much about american graduation rituals, but is it normal for speakers to use them to talk politics that's unrelated to the actual student graduation process like that?

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KStateKing17
06/26/21 2:13:20 PM
#24:


ROBANN_88 posted...
i don't know much about american graduation rituals, but is it normal for speakers to use them to talk politics that's unrelated to the actual student graduation process like that?
It happens

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