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C-SPAN Uses Periscope and Facebook Live To Broadcast The House Sit-In (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via The Washington Post: C-SPAN has made history for resorting to Periscope to live stream a sit-in on the House floor. C-SPAN spokesman Howard Mortman said: "This is the first time we've ever shown video from the House floor picked up by a Periscope account." C-SPAN had to rely on Periscope for a direct feed to House proceedings because these proceedings aren't exactly official. The Washington Post reports: "Earlier today, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) led a sit-in on the House floor to push for action on gun control, following the failure of four gun measures earlier this week in the Senate. According to an official at the House Recording Studio, the cameras that C-SPAN commonly uses to broadcast House business are 'in recess subject to the call of the chair.' No approved video feed, no problem: C-SPAN has been piping in the Periscope feed from Rep. Scott Peters, a California Democrat." The feed hasn't been as reliable as C-SPAN's official House-proceedings feed. "Well, the Periscope video froze up again," said a C-SPAN anchor. And a bit later: "We're still having some issues with that video feed." At around 3:30 p.m., C-SPAN switched to a Facebook feed where viewers could hear and watch Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) rip the "cowards who run this chamber" for failing to turn on the microphones.
Democrats voted AGAINST two watered-down, NRA-approved control laws two days ago, and are now throwing a fit because they can't get gun control passed.
FTFY
Oh shut up, gun nuts. Everybody's sick of your drama queen bullshit.
The saying goes, "you know you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do". The right wing nuts in this country have gone a step further and created the Constitution of their hateful wacko God too.
That's because there was not a large regular militia or large standing army. The duty of the militia was to essentially be draftees as necessary. This is completely opposite to the wing nut notion that the right to bear arms is necessary so that the government can be overthrown. Today we have a standing professional army. The need for reserve militias no longer remains. Red Dawn not withstanding, in the event of an invasion there will be enough people who have passed background checks who own guns to bolster the regular militia because no on in government is calling for a complete and total ban on private gun ownership.