I just got back from the Naperville/NIU event and it was the single most lopsided forum I have ever witnessed. There were about 150 in the audience and 4 ICPGV presenters. Without exaggeration, my best guess would be that of the approx 150 in the audience there might have been less than 5 anti's with most of the remainder outwardly pro 2A. The panel took a real beating at the end of their presentation when no fewer than 20 pro2As stood at the microphone for the next 1/2 hour and gave the panel a real tongue lashing. This included the president of the ISRA who made a few "retaliatory verbal" trips to the mic to counter the blatant lies of the ICPGV.Looks like you guys did it. Good job!
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Based on tonight's news coverage, it seems that "our" side overwhelmed them. They showed a student from Virginia Tech addressing the crowd. The only person (from the audience) they showed was a woman from our side. I couldn't hear everything she said but she didn't appear to be too eloquent (I don't think that was on accident). Everyone lined up to speak behind her and seated in the audience looked like "ours" ... it looked like a hunter/shooter convention. I could be wrong but they didn't show anyone on camera from the crowd that supported gun control. They just showed one spokesperson from either side, the VT student and the woman at the microphone. Coverage was minimal and low-key.I just did a cursory scan of some of the major area TV stations using search terms "gun" and "Naperville," and found nothing. If you can find a link to coverage on this story, please share it with the rest of us in "Comments," below.
There's a bit of coverage: the Daily Herald, CBS2Chicago, and Naperville Sun (part of Suburban Chicago News).
ReplyDeleteHere is the link to the Daily Herald story:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=172897&src=5
The Northern Illinois University student newspaper also covered it, and quoted a very unhappy anti-gun fanatic:
ReplyDelete“The whole idea was education,” said ICPGV representative Steve Young, speaking one-on-one. “These are single-issue voters, and we heard from some pretty radical people tonight. These people make our case for us; all they have to do is show who they are,” Young said, referring to the protesters.