Snapchat Wanted $150K To Not Run NRA Ads On Gun Control Group Videos (thenextweb.com)

New submitter bababoris writes: It appears that Snapchat's Rob Saliterman attempted to "encourage" Everytown for Gun Safety to advertise with Snapchat or risk having National Rifle Association (NRA) ads run during their Live Story promoting gun safety. The Next Web reports: "Everytown for Gun Safety is an advocacy group that focuses on gun safety and violence issues. According to Mic, it reached out to Snapchat in 2016 to inquire about an advertising campaign for its #WearOrange event, held on National Gun Violence Awareness Day. A Snapchat representative, Rob Saliterman, responded to Everytown with a quote of $150,000. This would allow Snapchat users to engage with the event using custom filters and lenses created specifically for it. Realizing that another department within Snapchat had undercut him, he fired off an email suggesting that Everytown pay up, lest National Rifle Association (NRA) adverts appear on their videos."

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Re:That org is garbage

[rtb61]

Yep, super fucking safe. Every idiot moron shooting at every other idiot moron, because they have a gun and they are shooting and they are a threat, this whilst some old pensioners drives off in a old bomb that just backfired. So who do the cops shoot when every moron out there is an untrained fuckwit with a gun, answer, all of them head shots as fast as possible to protect the innocent without guns. You as an amateur pull out a gun firing wildly, I hope a cop puts one into as fast as possible before they target the perp who will likely be firing less often needing to conserve ammo.

Contrary to right wing insane bullshit, when an amateur in a blind untrained panic shoots, it will kill just as dead, as the criminal shoots. No, amateurs can not protect themselves whilst placing everyone else at risk and they should be charged with murder should they kill an innocent when blindly, firing in panic (the one time I would approve of the death penalty). Amateur put you fucking hand on that gun and know you are risking a death penalty when you fuck up and you will fuck up because you are an amateur.

Re:That org is garbage

[ArchieBunker]

Harassing innocent people is a hell of a lot safer than chasing down crackheads and crazy n1ggers.