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A Florida high school massacre and guns: A requiem for sanity
Rex Huppke, Chicago Tribune
Seventeen dead in a high school. South Florida.
A former student, 19. Armed to the teeth. A semi-automatic AR-15 rifle. Made to kill.
Police officers running to the school, machine guns drawn. A mother texting her son to turn off his phone's ringer so the killer with the rifle won’t hear it and find him.
A slaughter.
Seventeen dead. At a high school. In America.
It has happened before, it happened Wednesday and it will happen again.
Why? Because nothing. We do nothing.
School shooting. Nothing.
School shooting. Nothing.
School shooting. Nothing.
Thoughts and prayers. Don’t talk about guns. Don’t politicize deaths.
Too soon, too soon, too soon.
Thoughts and prayers and thoughts and prayers and thoughts and prayers.
A tweet from the president. Nothing more. It gets a tweet. No spoken words.
Seventeen dead.
Don’t talk about guns.
It’s mental health. Mental health, right? Got to fix mental health. Never do, but keep saying it.
Seventeen dead Wednesday. What’s changed since the last one? Nothing. When was the last one? Can’t remember. It’s a blur.
Mass shootings in America — in schools, at concerts, in movie theaters — are a blur.
Read that again: Mass shootings in America are a blur. A blur.
What do we do?
Don’t talk about guns. Evil can’t be stopped. Guns aren’t to blame. Weapons of mass killing have nothing to do with mass killings. Nope.
Listen to the National Rifle Association. The world is scary. You need guns. More. More. More.
Listen to the politicians who get the money from the NRA which gets the money from the people who make the guns and the bullets and the bulletproof vests we ought to send kids to school wearing so they don’t die when bullets fly from a gun in the hands of a maniac who fell through the cracks and could only have been caught, could only have been stopped, if we had better mental health care or if we had teachers carrying guns or no more gun-free zones or something, anything, that isn’t tougher gun laws.
What do we do? >>>
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That’s the way they live in the US of an A..
It has been said and argued that “people deserve the leader they have”
For years we have been told that the answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun and more gun is needed for our safety and security yet the number of people killed by guns only goes up and in more gruesome way.
When will our politician say NO to the gun lobby money and say YES to sane policy for the people who they represent
Muller is making America great again
Trump is helping to make Russia great again
Reject occupation, If the bar code starts with 7 29 put it back on the shelf
Buy American, say NO to Chinese madeTrump
“The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King
And That's exactly why we dont need any more crazy mooslims from terrorist sponsoring goverments like Iran and Syria entering US. We have already many home grown crazy mass shooters in US!
#Thank you president Trump for keeping America safe.