NRA spokeswoman calls the Parkland gunman an 'insane monster' who should never have gotten a gun

Get the Full StoryDana Loesch, a spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association took some pointed questions during a raucous CNN town-hall event on gun violence Wednesday night.

The gathering featured students, educators, politicians, law-enforcement officials and others who spoke on the deadly mass shooting that rocked Parkland, Florida, last week, and possible solutions going forward.

The discussion went off the rails at several points, especially during the segment that featured Loesch and the Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, who confronted the NRA spokeswoman on stage.

The National Rifle Association spokeswoman, Dana Loesch, took some heat at a town-hall event on gun violence Wednesday night, which featured impassioned dialogue between students, parents, educators, and politicians.

The discussion at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, had been heated from the start, but seemed to hit a fever pitch once Loesch argued on behalf of the NRA.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: How to make America great according to one of the three cofounders of Black Lives MatterSee Also:Students, parents, educators, politicians, and the NRA engage in a heated discussion on gun violence'I was going to try and kill a lot of people': A man who says he 'was almost a school shooter' as a kid opens up about what kept him from doing itTrump stakes out a position on gun reform: 'We must now focus on strengthening background checks'SEE ALSO: New York Daily News tears into Trump's response to the Parkland mass shooting: 'He never mentioned a word' about 'guns flooding our streets'

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