CNN Town Hall an Extreme Success For Gun Change Promises

Photo of CNN Headquarter offices.

Sunrise, Florida, was a small city home to thousands of people attending a major-viewed CNN event, known as their infamous town halls. These events are viewed by millions, and are usually very effective in their goal.

Covered by many other major news outlets, including the New York Times, the event made headlines yet again last night with some very popular children activists of which survived the Parkland massacre, as well as major politicians and an NRA spokeswoman.

One of the only Republican politicians there, Marco Rubio, was grilled heavily by the crowd though just as evenly applauded for his dedication and the simple fact he showed up; in comparison to the refusals to show from Mr. Trump and Florida governor Scott.

Unlike the thousands of Democrats inside of the hall, with Rubio being the only Republican trying to convince the crowd that the NRA, GOP and gun laws aren't the problem here, Rubio himself didn't stand a chance for any of his planned debates. He didn't really mind.

See, in comparison to other Republicans, Rubio is one that has shown to be very sympathetic for gun laws and has grown to understand a lot of the reasons behind the Democratic-proposed regulations.

He did manage to squeeze in, with shockingly little revolts, that he doesn't support a full ban on semi-automatics, saying that the legislation only blocks 200 gun types, and leave over 2,000 other identical ones still in service. In response, one of the two Democratic politicians there indicated he'd support banning all of them.

Rubio was blindsided by a horrible swing at him from a student survivor of the Parkland shooting of which asked him if he'd pledge to not take anymore donations from the NRA. Rubio denied he wouldn't, but was criticized heavily for his reasoning.

"People buy into my ideas, not the other way around," Rubio said in attempt to defend himself, completely ignoring the questioned fact that he has the ability to deny donations.

Proven time and time again, significant sized donations do change the views of major politicians and for good reasons. It's considered a method of income for them. But, as another student survivor asked him, is it worth the blood it may be causing?

CNN's Jake Tapper told the politicians attending they didn't need to answer the harsh question from a female student, citing it was more approrpriate to ask the NRA spokeswoman who was present later on, though the question was never asked again.