parkland shooting
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Yes, Florida Gov. Rick Scott Is Breaking Ranks With the NRA and Trump. No, We Shouldn’t Celebrate Just Yet
The student-led push to finally bring a semblance of gun control appears to be working in Florida. Gov. Rick Scott and other state lawmakers on Friday offered a series of proposals that would mark “the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades.” The proposed gun laws defy the National Rifle Association and…
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NRA Spokeswoman Dana Loesch Continues Her Crusade to Become the Worst Woman in the World
I didn’t know who National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch was before the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that took the lives of 17 students and teachers, and I wish it had remained that way. Sadly, I and the rest of CNN watchers have unfortunately had to see her smug, heartless face way too much. Earlier…
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Philando Castile’s Mom Is Sick of Wayne LaPierre and the NRA’s Hypocrisy
Following Wayne LaPierre’s rigorous commitment to arming educators in the wake of yet another school shooting, Philando Castile’s mother has called the National Rifle Association CEO a hypocrite for not standing up for her son, who both owned a gun and was a public school employee. Castile’s mother, Valerie, told the New York Daily News…
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Why It Hurts When the World Loves Everyone but Us
I’ve been processing seemingly contradictory emotions since the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. I am at once in awe of and humbled by this youth resistance movement and its solidarity efforts, and yet almost indescribably devastated. This feeling of devastation goes beyond the tragic and preventable loss of life; it is connected to the loss of…
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Florida Considers Porn a Health Hazard, Doesn’t Ban Assault Rifles but Agrees to Have More God in Schools
Everyone can stop worrying about guns and mass shootings in schools because a Florida lawmaker has just introduced groundbreaking legislation that will surely be adopted by other areas throughout the nation and will definitely put a halt to gun violence. According to CNN, Rep. Kimberly Daniels, a Democrat, pushed a bill requiring public schools to…
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Armed Sheriff’s Deputy Who Never Confronted Gunman During Parkland, Fla., Shooting Thinks ‘He Did a Good Job’
For all the talk of armed good guys stopping a bad guy, there was one trained and armed law enforcement officer who did not confront the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as the shooting was unfolding. That sheriff’s deputy and school resource officer, Scot Peterson, still “believed he did a good job,” though,…
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Deranged NRA Spokeswoman: The Media Loves Mass Shootings, and Crying White Mothers Are Ratings Gold
National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch knows exactly what she is doing. Her job as a mouthpiece for the NRA is to shift the focus from looking at gun laws to looking at anything but gun laws. Seriously, she doesn’t care if the focus goes from the Parkland, Fla., mass school shooting to the county…
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Trump Had to Check His Notes to Remember to Care About Mass-Shooting Victims
Wednesday’s White House meeting on school safety was a triumph in successful vetting and presidential hand-holding. While billed as an opportunity for victims of the Parkland, Fla., mass school shooting to voice their concerns to the president, it quickly devolved into moving but ultimately worthless tragedy porn that gave President Donald Trump and his puppeteers…
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Oprah Cares, Even if Republicans in Florida Don’t
Even if Republican Party politicians in the state of Florida don’t care about the survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Oprah Winfrey does. The media mogul announced Tuesday evening that she would be joining Amal Clooney and her actor husband, George, in donating $500,000 to the student organizers of…
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Why Are You Like This? Far Right Cooks Up Conspiracy Theories, Bullies Survivors of Parkland, Fla., Shooting Seeking Gun Reform
The far right doesn’t want you to “politicize” recurring national tragedies like the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting. They just prefer that you make up a bunch of wild-ass garbage about those tragedies. Survivors of last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla., one of the deadliest in modern American history, have said that…