Author: Jayme Deerwester / Source: USA TODAY
Protestors explain why they’ve had #enough and their thoughts on gun control during the March For Our Lives in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, March 24, 2018. Jarrad Henderson, USA TODAY
Saturday’s March for Our Lives rally was the subject of a curse word and ellipses-filled rant from Eagles of Death Metal singer Jesse Hughes, himself the survivor of a mass shooting.
His band was onstage at Paris’ Bataclan Theatre on Nov. 13, 2015, when terrorists stormed the club and killed 89 people.Writing on his personal Instagram page Sunday, Hughes told the survivors of February’s shooting in Parkland, Fla., that they had insulted the memories of their dead classmates and teachers by staging a walkout and taking days off school to travel to New York for media interviews and Washington for Saturday’s March for Our Lives.
He also pointed out that France’s gun control laws hadn’t protected him and his friends that night in Paris.
Before passing what he considered another useless law, Hughes wrote, “We’re going to denigrate the memory and curse ourselves by exploiting the death of 16 of our fellow students for a few Facebook likes and some media attention.”
He dismissed their demands for legislative action on guns…
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