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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Mar 14, 2018 9:55:57 GMT -5
Really cool to see all the student walkouts/protests today. Although most of the adult school officials have been supportive, there are a few exceptions threatening suspension or other disciplinary action over "safety concerns". To students in those schools, I tell them protest anyway and tell those officials based on the past few years you actually feel safer outside your school. There are plenty of students protesting over here, I hate how the administrators threaten to suspend or severely punish students (as it happened to me last year after 45 was inaugurated), but this issue is the real deal since people haven’t been feeling safe in their schools. The Florida Incident started other attempted copycats and many people want change the laws so that they can feel safer. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Feb 15, 2019 0:30:07 GMT -5
Hard to believe but this past week marked the 1-year anniversary of the Parkland shootings. I am glad to see the surviving students have been effective in inspiring change. There is still a lot of work to do in regards to gun safety legislation (and for the last time to all who exaggerate, gun safety, not taking your guns away), but many states including Florida have passed new laws in the past year. It sucks that it took tragedy to happen, but that is usually the case to getting anything passed in politics. (I once remember my father asking our local congressman to have a street light put in at a dangerous intersection. He said unfortunately his colleagues and the city were do-nothings and someone would have to die for it to happen. And sure enough someone finally got hit by a car and a street light was put in). Kudos to the students at Stoneman Douglas, keep fighting the good fight, ignore the haters, and I predict one of you may one day become President! www-m.cnn.com/2019/02/14/us/parkland-massacre-anniversary-day-of-service/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F |
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Mar 22, 2019 16:59:49 GMT -5
Unfortunately there’s some very sad news. Survivor Sydney Aiello, has died by suicide this past weekend. Obviously the shooting has left a wound in that school and it shows, 13 months after the shooting. I’m at a loss of words right now. To survive a school shooting and to take her own life 13 months after the fact is very sad, especially since we’re talking about a beautiful young lady, who basically had her entire life ahead of her. www.cbsnews.com/news/parkland-shooting-survivor-sydney-aiello-takes-her-own-life/ |
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 22, 2019 17:39:50 GMT -5
I'm very sorry to hear this and as far as I'm concerned, she should count as an additional homicide victim. The Parkland students are very brave, but that doesn't mean they'll ever forget what happened to them.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 24, 2019 16:20:48 GMT -5
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Mar 24, 2019 20:43:30 GMT -5
One can just imagine the pain the students at that school feel, after 14 of their peers were taken a year prior, it’s very tragic that 2 students had to go out this way 13 months after the incident. After tragedies it’s like a trauma, and it makes the teachers and students close, but sometimes the pain is felt deep down. Also the pain that it happens so often here in America than other developed countries, and having to deal with the right wing pundits dismissing the students case about proper gun legislation. |
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Post by Scumhunter on May 10, 2019 3:36:33 GMT -5
I know this is somewhat off-topic but I'm sure we all know about the tragedy at the STEM middle school in Colorado.
We know one boy died a hero lunging at the gunman and probably saved multiple lives.
One boy had a baseball bat and was prepared to go out fighting.
It's still absolutely saddening and sickening that as inspiring as these heroic acts by these young kids may be, that this is necessary in the first place. Apparently we're now leaving it up to unarmed students to be heroes and lunge at gunmen rather than working together on common sense laws to prevent them from having to be in this situation in the first place.
Don't get me wrong, I love my country, but it, and especially Congress, really make me sick sometimes.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on May 10, 2019 12:05:21 GMT -5
I know this is somewhat off-topic but I'm sure we all know about the tragedy at the STEM middle school in Colorado. We know one boy died a hero lunging at the gunman and probably saved multiple lives. One boy had a baseball bat and was prepared to go out fighting. It's still absolutely saddening and sickening that as inspiring as these heroic acts by these young kids may be, that this is necessary in the first place. Apparently we're now leaving it up to unarmed students to be heroes and lunge at gunmen rather than working together on common sense laws to prevent them from having to be in this situation in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I love my country, but it, and especially Congress, really make me sick sometimes. Those unarmed students that lunged at gunmen, would probably still be here if we had decent gun legislation. They don’t and shouldn’t have to die because our politicians don’t know how to act, since they’re pockets are filled by the damn NRA. |
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Post by Scumhunter on May 31, 2019 18:57:35 GMT -5
And another shooting in Virginia Beach as people go "changing gun laws won't prevent these tragedies from happening!"
Well how about we try anyway and then if it doesn't work out go back to the drawing board rather than doing nothing to attempt to curb gun violence.
Any other normal problem in society, such as a street without proper traffic lights where pedestrians crossing keep getting struck by cars and killed, we pass laws to fix the situation. Granted it often takes longer than expected thanks to bureaucracy (a street in my neighborhood they didn't fix a traffic problem until a child was killed), but eventually it will get fixed or we at least passed a law to attempt to have the problem fixed.
If you aren't a nutjob with a reason to not have one, no one is going to take your guns away. But the NRA has dominated the narrative and brainwashed people into thinking common sense gun-laws equal taking away guns entirely. It is too easy to buy guns at gun shows. Stricter background checks are needed. A "regular" gun is fine and no one needs an AK-47.
But let's just continue to go "thoughts and prayers" do nothing and wait for the next tragedy to happen.
So frustrated right now.
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Post by ninja108 on Jun 1, 2019 22:40:06 GMT -5
What also gets me is the idiots who claim if there were no gun free zones,the shooters would think twice before carrying something like this out.
To that I say bull.
The guy in this case had full scale body armor to the point where the police that responded to him firing on them couldn't take him down for a while.
And yet a civilian who has maybe taken a few hours of gun training would have?
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Post by Scumhunter on Oct 16, 2021 1:51:01 GMT -5
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