When you raise hell,
things happen!
things happen!
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Companies to end their ties with the NRA, Delta and United Airlines, Hertz and First National Bank of Omaha.
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The moves have come as petitions circulated online targeting companies offering discounts to NRA members on its website. #BoycottNRA was trending on Twitter.
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Even the State of Florida is facing a backlash. One of the survivors of the Florida school shooting suggested Saturday on Twitter that tourists stay away from the state.
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“Let’s make a deal,” tweeted David Hogg, a Stoneman Douglas student who has been a major player in the #neveragain movement. “DO NOT come to Florida for spring break unless gun legislation is passed.”
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The swiftness of the corporate reaction against the NRA has differed from that of past shootings, including the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that claimed 26 lives, and the killing of 58 people in Las Vegas last fall.
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Why? Well according to Bob Spitzer, a political scientist at SUNY Cortland and a scholar on gun politics.
"The reaction was likely a reaction to the student mobilization that followed the
Florida shooting." here
"The reaction was likely a reaction to the student mobilization that followed the
Florida shooting." here
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