Parkland survivors respond to Texas school shooting

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

BY AVERY ANAPOL - 05/18/18 12:27 PM EDT

Parkland, Fla., shooting survivors Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg and Cameron Kasky were among those who responded Friday to the deadly Texas high school shooting, with Gonzalez saying in a tweet that the students deserve more than “thoughts and prayers.”

Gonzalez tweeted hours after a shooter opened fire at Santa Fe High School near Houston. At least nine fatalities and several injuries, including one law enforcement officer, have been reported.

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Many of González's fellow Parkland shooting survivors also responded, with some delivering harsh criticism of politicians.

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Several of the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida have become vocal proponents of the gun-control movement nationwide since the shooting in February that left 17 dead.

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[Wwcd]

1. They've seen & heard them all before.

Politicians looking for a catchy Campaign Ad better check their own record before exploiting these kids.
They are no one's fools.

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[BigmanPigman]

15. David is sharp and he learned about

politics very quickly.

[Cha]

23. David is rightgeously pissed. :(

All their tweets are compelling.. they've been there in February..

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[Wwcd]

25. Shame on the politicians who have pushed aside this American horror

for years.
They kiss the ass of the NRA gun lobby, and wave off the welfare of our children.

Show their voting record & say their names.

[pazzyanne]

2. It breaks my heart,

not only for the students, staff, parents, and community of Santa Fe High School, but also for the Parkland students who have pick up the gauntlet that they had thrown at them. They have been fighting the good fight without much help from the people elected to make our country safer, and unfortunately, the students at Santa Fe High School will be facing the same thing as the communities of all school shootings have faced. Politicians give lip service, thoughts and prayers, and little else to solve the problem. There needs to be a national moratorium held by our Senators, Governors, and Representative to address this atrocity NOW, and without input from the NRA. The NRA is a US sanctioned terrorist group as far as I am concerned. Time for the adults in this country to start acting as adult as the Parkland students are. Stepping down, folding up soap box, and rolling up my sleeves, and I hope there are a lot of others willing to do the same thing!

If you are interested in the US history of school shootings, this website has a good list with explanations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States

[renate]

3. I clicked on cnn.com to look for something soooo trivial

And to see ANOTHER F*CKING SCHOOL MASSACRE was literally like a punch in the gut. Like, physical. I am sick with grief for those students, that teacher, and their families.

It's so far beyond tragic that we all just have to live with the anger and gun culture that the NRA and Fox defend and encourage.

The other day there was a shooter loose in our neighborhood. I had to look out the front door before taking the dogs outside to do their business. And it just seemed so ridiculous, in the middle of the day in suburbia, to think "better check to make sure the shooter isn't coming up the street." This doesn't happen in other civilized countries. And worst of all, in the United States of America, parents send their children to school knowing that there is a tiny but real chance they will not come home.

[Kittycow]

7. Me too.

I left DU for thirty minutes to look up how to write a romance novel for Harlequin and then left that silly light-heartedness only to find out more kids have been massacred.

I know what it's like to lose a child but I'm not looking for sympathy for myself. I just have an inkling--only an inkling since my child wasn't horrifically murdered-- of what those poor bereaved parents are going through and it rips my heart out I feel so helpless.

My only hope lays with the younger generation who can vote pretty soon and get the complicit MFers out of Congress.

[renate]

9. I am so sorry for your loss

You live with it every day, but events like these must be especially traumatic for you. I'm very sorry.

[Kittycow]

11. Thank you for the kind thoughts.

I just passed the seven year mark and I finally got to the end of my tunnel.

We even had a school shooting that affected my family. My nephew's best friend was shot to death a few years ago at school in Oregon.

I imagine that the Parkland parents are reaching out to the newly bereaved parents. I think that would help a lot since you really have to be in those (terrible) shoes to truly understand what they're going through.

[uponit7771]

20. +1

[Sprite]

4. Sprite

Parkland you are our leaders and our rock. You all continue to amaze me with saying it like it is and your never ending love and support to others.

[apnu]

5. Damn! Cameron gives no fucks.

Bring all that and more!

[Yavin4]

6. I so wish that the Parkland students were running the Democratic party.

This is how Democratic leaders should respond.

[HenryWallace]

17. Their Representative has taken NRA Contributions

[lagomorph777]

8. Another NRApublican-sponsored mass murder.

Thanks McTurtle. Thanks Cowardly Ryan. Thanks Donald J. Turd.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. I've been offline for a power outage for 4 days

Another High School shooting? Just awful

[Kittycow]

13. Yeah...

You just turn your back and there's another one!

[bucolic_frolic]

14. I thought Trump was going to Don his Superman outfit and run in and stop all this stuff

He promised, didn't he?

[Kittycow]

16. The media will just say ..

Campaign promises are rhetoric and we have to be realistic that they won't be fulfilled when the candidate reaches the office. Because it's all complicated and stuff.

[DallasNE]

12. The Only Permanent outcome Following Parkland

Was for the NRA to name the un-American Oliver North as their new President.

As long as money is allowed to set the agenda and corrupt the outcome then prepare for more carnage in America and at an ever increasing frequency. Throw in Donald Trump empowering the deplorable and this is the result. Buckle up because more is coming.

[HenryWallace]

18. Once again this is prescient

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[Rhiannon12866]

26. Now that is the Tweet of the day!

[Duppers]

19. I cannot wait until these

Intelligent, brave students hold high public offices and bring the changes. I love them.

[durablend]

21. Please send congresspeople some "Thoughts and prayers"

Maybe they'll wake up but I've pretty much given up...

[Dave Starsky]

27. Here are my thoughts and prayers for our congresspeople.

[Cha]

22. :(

Excellent Tweets from some of the Survivors of Parkland.

[noneof_theabove]

24. You can also send this...

You can download my “zero dollars” for NRA “thoughts & prayers” check to send to all your
congress-critters [local, state, fed] at ibb.co/...

Someone with more “social” status than me, none — anti-social, please get the below rewrite of Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel to the #nevermore and #amarch4life and especially today’s Sante Fe disaster. We all must “hammer” the congress-critters to get this fixed.

By the way, in the 1920’s after Al Capone and crew shot up Chicago and New York, congress out lawed machine guns [tommy gun], so what are they waiting on.

I do have this in the Creative Commons licensing and anyone is welcome to record & send it out, my music skills are worse that social media.

Thanks, wap3.

The Sound of Corruption

Hello, liar our old friend
We've come to vote you out again.
'Cause corruption softly was creeping
Left its seeds while you were dreaming.
And the vision that was planted in your brain
Still remains
With in the halls of corruption.

In restless halls you walked alone
made of polished granite stone
'Neath the halo of a desk lamp
You turned your life to the cold and damp
When your eyes were blinded by the flash of a media light
That split the night
And touched your vision of corruption.

And in the naked light you saw
10 million people, maybe more
Voters talking loudly, protesting
You hear without listening
People writing laws that voters never knew
none of you
Disturb the sound of corruption.

"Fools", said I, "You do not know
corruption like a cancer grows,
Hear our protest we might teach you
Take our petition we might reach you"
But our words, like silent teardrops fell
And echoed in the wells of corruption

And the voters bowed and prayed
To the phony gods they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are
Written in history's walls
And tenement halls
And whispered for defeat of corruption."

[treestar]

28. Survivors of this shooting

are likely to emerge and join them.