we reached out to david keene to get his response and we haven't heard back from him.this remarkable demonstrative experiment, this stunt was orchestrated by a gun safety advocacy group called change the ref. the group pointed out today that quote, ironically had the men conducted a proper background check on the school they would've seen that the school is fake. they said they were trying to illustrate here that the thousands of students lost to gun violence won't be forgotten. they wanted to force progun advocates to literally face the consequences of their policies. they call those 3000 empty seats, the loss class. this advocacy group change the ref, was founded by manuel all of, in 2018 their son was killed at stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. he was 17 years old. he was a great writer, an athlete, he loved music. his father manuel said today that he was not scared to pull off this sort of unbelievable piece of advocacy, and honestly subterfuge he said quote, we need to show were brave and not afraid of these guys. we've already felt the worst poss

on the left there the david keene. terms as president of the national rifle association. he now sits on the nra's board of directors. on the right is john lott. he's a very influential person in gun organization circles. he wrote a book that people call the bible of the nra. both david keene and john lott were invited to address the graduates from james madison academy. and they both said yes. they put on their robes and their funny hats. they travelled to las vegas. they prepared speeches about following your hopes and dreams, also about the importance of the second amendment, right? that's kind of why they were there. the school told them that as a thank you for giving those speeches, they would both be awarded the james madison academy's keeper of the constitution award. this is them having received their statues to commemorate their receives those awards. and all of this, i don't know, seems a little bit on the nose, right? gun themed school gets gun themed speakers to give gun themed speeches and receive a short o

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this is part of what david keene said. >> the are somwho will contin to fig to guhe send andmentbut iod be lling toet thamany ofou will be ong thoswho stan up and prevent them from succeeding. amy: the stunt was organized by change the ref, a group founded by manuel and patricia oliver, whose son joaquin "guac" was shot dead in the parkland , florida, massacre in 2018. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host nermeen shaikh. hi, nermeen. nermeen: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: president biden vowed wednesday to crack down on illegal gun dealers and to boost funding for police departments as part of an effort to combat a spike in gun violence across the country. rejecting calls by activists to defund the police, biden said cities could expand their police forces by diverting federal money allocated for the pandemic. he also pledged to strengthen enforcement of existing guns laws. pres. biden: today the de

. >>> a former president of the nra duped into making a powerful statement about gun violence, david keennd gun rights activist john lott were invited to rehearse a high school commencement speech. but the graduation was a fake, staged by the parents of a opportunity who died in the parkland massacre and their organization called change the rev ref. keen was addressing 3,000 chairs representing those killed by gun violence. >> those are the images. no comment from keen on far. lott tells buzzfeed that he didn't know it was a setup. the founders who said joaquin died at parkland, they will be on "new day" in the 8:00 hour. >>> breaking overnight, a building collapse in florida, a huge pile of rubble there. rescuers are on the scene. latest details live from miami. today let's paint with behr ultra scuff defense... so that you can live that scuff-free life. honey, i'm home! honey! scuff defense. i love our scuff-free life. behr ultra scuff defense. exclusively at the home depot. there's interest you accrue, and interests you pursue. plans for the long term, and plans for a long weekend. ass

the former nra president david keen thought he was doing the virtual graduation speech while he addressedhairs in front of him. the gun control group change the ref was behind the stunt. each chair represented the victims of gun violence who would have graduated this year. >>> they barely had time to celebrate president biden's infrastructure plan, less than 48 hours after lawmakers agreed on a bipartisan deal. gop senators are threatening to pull out after president biden said he wouldn't sign the nearly $600 billion infrastructure plan without the simultaneous passage of an even more expensive democrat only budget package. nbc news political reporter amanda golden is joining us now on capitol hill. amanda, good morning. >> good morning, lindsay, not to lay on an additional infrastructure puns here but there is a bumpy road ahead but president biden making this announcement this bipartisan deal has been reached with that group of five democratic and five republican senators he went on to say he would only move forward if in tandem that reconciliation for just democratic priorities would

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most people are very keen that we should continue to be able to host the matches here and potentially i hope the final, but we will see. we are still having those discussions. david the support from the tartan army has been unwavering and, despite scotland going out, they stayed and applauded their squad. it had sounded simple — a win against croatia and scotland would go through to the knockout stages for the first time in their history. a change to the line—up was forced upon them by coronavirus — stuart armstrong replacing billy gilmour. scotland had an early chance — che adams going close. but croatia looked organised — a cut back to nikola vlasic, who controlled, then finished. scottish hearts sank but it was time for cool heads. they answered with a wave of attacks — the ball eluding lyndon dykes and adams. thenjohn mcginn�*s finished not strong enough. but their chance came — a poor clearance went straight to callum mcgregor, and hampden exploded. and they are back in the game — it�*s 1—1! a david marshall save let scotland off, but croatia sensed weakness. former tottenham player luka modric was in acres of space, and punished scotland. then they were in