The transcript of a police interview with Nikolas Cruz was released yesterday. Not surprisingly, Cruz did not accept any blame or responsibility for the Parkland school massacre.
Parkland shooter blamed demon in his head for school massacre
https://nypost.com/2018/08/07/parkla...hool-massacre/
After the Parkland massacre, President Trump established the Federal Commission on School Safety -- but, as today's Los Angeles Times points out, the commission will not even consider expanding background checks, banning high-capacity ammo magazines and restricting the sale of automatic and semiautomatic weapons. Those issues are not even to be discussed. The gun-loving Republicans who are puppets of the NRA claim to want safer schools but they refuse to consider any gun-control measures. Keep this in mind when you go to vote in November.
Trump's school safety commission would prefer if you didn't talk about gun control
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...807-story.html
Classes resume today at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and many students say they will never feel safe there -- or anywhere -- until action is taken to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammo magazines, expand background checks and reduce the proliferation of guns in our nation. Sadly, that will never happen as long as Republicans control Congress and the White House.
Parkland students return to school but some still don't feel safe
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parklan...ont-feel-safe/
Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress are puppets of the NRA. They accept huge donations from the NRA and they do the NRA's bidding. That means they oppose any and all gun control proposals. After every mass shooting, such as the Parkland school massacre in February and yesterday's shooting spree at a gaming tournament in Jacksonville, they respond by saying "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims." That is all.
The Parkland survivors and other student activists are not giving up their fight. They want young people to register to vote and they want the gun-loving Republicans voted out of office so meaningful gun control legislation has a chance of passing.
Jacksonville shooting: Student activists plan protest against Senators linked to NRA
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ja...urNR?ocid=AMZN
After losing her daughter in the February 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, this woman became an activist for gun control and school safety. On Tuesday she was elected to the Broward County school board. This headline is kind of sad, though. After all the hundreds of mass shootings in the United States, changing our nation's gun culture shouldn't have to be a "fight."
'Action! We need it now!': Mother of Parkland shooting victim turns her grief into a fight for change
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...902-story.html
Delmonte Johnson was a volunteer with a student anti-gun-violence group that formed following the February school massacre in Parkland. As long as Republicans remain in control of Congress, no action to curb gun violence will ever be taken. Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's Supreme Court nominee, is a typical Republican, ignoring the Second Amendment's provision for a "well-regulated militia" and interpreting the Amendment to mean every American has the right to own dozens of guns, assault weapons and high-capacity ammo magazines.
A teenager who spent his free time speaking out against gun violence is shot and killed in Chicago
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/09/08/us/...led/index.html
Gunmen with assault weapons have killed many hundreds of people in the United States. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is opposed to a ban on assault weapons. A survivor of the Parkland school massacre spoke at a confirmation hearing for Kavanaugh but her testimony will not sway Kavanaugh or his fellow Republicans. They value guns more than they value human life.
Parkland shooting survivor gives powerful testimony at Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pa...1jhW?ocid=AMZN
This commission wants schools to have bulletproof window glass, doors that can be locked from the inside and teachers armed with guns. How about banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammo magazines? How about more thorough background checks for gun purchases? How about keeping guns out of the hands of people with mental and emotional problems? How about doing a better job of diagnosing and treating mental illness? No, they didn't think of those things -- but, yeah, let's allow teachers to carry a gun. Then if a gunman bursts into a classroom, there can be two people shooting instead of just one. Brilliant.
Parkland safety commission recommends teachers be allowed to carry guns
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pa...Jm4n?ocid=AMZN
The Parkland survivors will never forget last year's mass shooting. Republicans and the NRA choose to ignore it, just as they ignore all mass shootings -- other than to make their usual de rigueur statement that their "thoughts and prayers" are with the victims.
Parkland anniversary: A year after mass shooting, 'Every day for me is February 14'
Nick Dworet should be training for the Olympics. Carmen Schentrup should be decorating her dorm room. Instead, loved ones reflect on a year without them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...rkland-n968306
Here is further proof that the Republicans' trite, meaningless offerings of "thoughts and prayers" following every school shooting accomplish absolutely nothing:
In the year since Parkland there's been a school shooting, on average, every 12 days
CNN, Feb 14 2019 3:34 PM ET
In the year since a troubled teen gunned down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, shootings have continued at schools across America. Since Parkland, by CNN's count, there have been at least 31 incidents at K-12 schools in the United States in which someone was shot. That averages out to a shooting every 11.8 days. In those shootings 19 people were killed and another 44 were injured.
They occurred in classrooms, in hallways, in parking lots and on baseball and football fields. The deadliest one since Parkland was in May at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, where 10 people died -- eight students and two teachers -- after a 17-year-old gunman opened fire in an art class. The most recent was Tuesday at a high school in Kansas City, Missouri, where a girl was shot and killed in a parking lot during a basketball game.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/us/sc...rnd/index.html
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