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

[Patent Lover]

Quite true. Interestingly, both sides try to play the fear card. Everytown says "OMG, can you imagine people carrrying concealed weapons leagally all over the country?" NRA says "OMG can you imagine an evil criminal (or lately, a terrorist) with a gun about to shoot you and you have no gun?" Neither addresses the problem which is there are people out there, for whatever reason, that are willing to kill.

facts vs sterotype

[JustNiz]

The truth is that even the majority of NRA members back more background checks on all gun purchases.

http://www.politifact.com/wisc...

Re:facts vs sterotype

[LeftCoastThinker]

We already have federal background checks, and every lib who says guns are too easy to get should be forced to go through the process of getting one (you don't have to actually buy one, just go through the process). Your ignorance is apparent to the rest of us who have. Liberals are just conservatives who haven't experienced enough of the real world yet. If you haven't gone through the process of buying a gun or you think that someone can just "buy a gun" at a gun show without a background check, you have been lied to and are demonstrably ignorant of reality. Every gun purchase has to go through an FFL dealer and process with a background check. Period... Go to your nearest gun show or even online and try to buy a gun. Every one will go through an FFL dealer and you will go through a background check.

As far as illegal, stolen guns; as a gun owner, I am 100% for having the death penalty option for firing a gun in the commission of any violent crime. How is that for being tough on gun crime? But liberals don't want to punish criminals do they... It's almost pathological, blame the inanimate gun, not the conscious, thinking criminal who is choosing moment by moment to break the law and harm innocents around him...

Further we need to take every person who is mentally ill and a danger to themselves and those around them and have them permanently committed so that they can get the meds that they need every day and the rest of us can live in safety with all of our freedoms intact.

Re:That org is garbage

[tsotha]

When Americans think about deaths from guns, we tend to focus on homicides. But the problem of gun suicide is inescapable: More than 60 percent of people in this country who die from guns die by suicide.

It's not a problem for people who aren't suicidal.