ACTIVE SHOOTER: MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL IN PARKLAND

Pretty obvious right? Lol

 

No Winston this perfectly illustrates how desperate conservatives have become. This story was presented by a local NBC affiliate in Atlanta, not a national stage. In fact, I googled her name and can only find sparse reporting, mainly from right wing outlets, that even mention what she is doing. Now all of the sudden the fact that this woman started a group to oppose school violence has been taken by the right as an affront and the only way to combat it is to try and undermine her by pointing out that she has previous experience in media. Let that sink in for a minute. 17 kids lost their lives and people are justifiably outraged about it and the best you guys can come up with is to pick a fight with this woman over what she did during her working career. Talk about a losing battle.....

 

no i just curse a lot......big difference.

 

Does that mean you don't believe that she is media savvy and used the latest mass shooting to promote an anti gun agenda?

She is just as cynical as you accuse her detractors of being.

 

again, who cares? if the guy wants to organize a march then let him. that's his constitutional right and, in fact, I would be surprised to see someone organizing such an event who DOESN'T have political experience. you are trying to make a big deal about something that simply isn't a big deal.

IF CNN censored the questions then they are wrong for that and should be exposed but right now I'd say let's all the facts come out because there is a ton of right wing bull shit being thrown around on order to obfuscate the issue at hand, which is gun violence and specifically in our schools. This is a classic tactic of the right so really no surprise.

 

of course she is media savvy but that doesn't mean she shouldn't be using her talents to pursue the things that she believes are right and that, in no way, makes her cynical. we all have some field of expertise. if you could use your talents to affect the kind of change you want, wouldn't you use it? Sure you would. It's American as apple pie. People contribute their money to political groups, they lend their talents, they volunteer their time, etc. None of that is any different than what this woman is doing and you guys are attacking her for it and using the old "the media....." argument as a basis for it.

 

exactly! that'll show me good! better yet, why not just put me on ignore if I bother them that badly

 

http://archive.is/ZAVit
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Then, my colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three months analyzing all 33,000 lives ended by guns each year in the United States, and I wound up frustrated in a whole new way. We looked at what interventions might have saved those people, and the case for the policies I’d lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence. The best ideas left standing were narrowly tailored interventions to protect subtypes of potential victims, not broad attempts to limit the lethality of guns.
I researched the strictly tightened gun laws in Britain and Australia and concluded that they didn’t prove much about what America’s policy should be. Neither nation experienced drops in mass shootings or other gun related-crime that could be attributed to their buybacks and bans. Mass shootings were too rare in Australia for their absence after the buyback program to be clear evidence of progress. And in both Australia and Britain, the gun restrictions had an ambiguous effect on other gun-related crimes or deaths.

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Put the guns no guns argument aside for a moment...this kid was trouble for a long time and was moved from school to school. There was plenty of time to identify him as the danager he was. But the school could not legally expell him. We need to get away from this idea that every kid has a right to an education. This should be changed to education is a privilege that can be revoked if little Johnny is a shit bag.

 

Usually people who curse have a lot of anger. And I don't have any need to unfollow you at this time. I was just pointing out you attract flies with more honey than vinegar