Zonkerbl wrote:cammac wrote:Hopefully out of the bravery of the survivors and the fallen at the Stoneman Douglas High School significant changes can be made in gun control. Two brave young men and one young woman gave up there lives protecting other students.
"The kids, the students at Stoneman Douglas, have been terrific," said Rospierski. "Not just the kids that you've had a chance to hear speak. But I personally witnessed one of my kids, his name is Peter Wang, holding the door pushing kids through the door while bullets are coming at him. I don't know many adults who could have done that, let alone a 14-year-old boy."
Wang, a JROTC student, was one of those killed.
I'm sure Nate won't acknowledge they are trues hero's since they don't meet his concept of being "American" but maybe SD20 can give them his blessing. But then he is bust defending General Bone Spurs.
The U.S. Army is awarding its Medal of Heroism to three Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) cadets killed in last week's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, an Army spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. Alaina Petty, Peter Wang and Martin Duque were all students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where the deadly attack unfolded.
The Army awards the Medal of Heroism to JROTC cadets who perform "acts of heroism."
"The achievement must be an accomplishment so exceptional and outstanding that it clearly sets the individual apart from fellow students or from other persons in similar circumstances," the Army said in a statement. "The performance must have involved the acceptance of danger and extraordinary responsibilities, exemplifying praiseworthy fortitude and courage."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/20/1743168/-West-Point-posthumously-admits-JROTC-teen-who-gave-his-life-protecting-his-peers-in-FL-mass-shooting
Well, I wish them well in getting legislation passed. Hopefully after the assault rifle ban and another half-dozen mass shootings at schools happen we'll all realize the problem can only be solved by more drastic action than Soviet-style command and control regulations - you can manufacture this but you can't manufacture that! The sooner we get around to discussing a tax on all guns that we gradually crank up until the shootings stop, the less innocent children will die.
I think A good chunk of this issue should easily be bipartisan.
Bump stocks , and fully automatic weapons should be fully and completely banned. And that goes for all police and swat teams as well. Only the US military should have that kind of weapon.
In addition and perhaps more importantly we need to not allow troubled human beings or children younger than 21 years old to have access to any type of gun. Where children younger than 21 can only access guns with the supervision of parent. And I’m more than happy bumping that age to 23. In fact, if the legal age For gun ownership is 23 so should drinking, voting And military service. Who’s with me?
But the most important factor is clearly some type of safety and mental health screening. The civil libertarians won’t like it but children need to be profiled and put in databases from the time they’re in third or fourth grade all the way through college.
In addition to profiling children we need to hold any and all accomplices to the letter of the law. No different then a 30-year-old man committing armed robbery...anybody he spoke to about that Robbery can be charged and found guilty of conspiring to commit armed robbery. We need the same for these mass shootings no matter how young. If a 15-year-old dumb **** snot nose kid tells some other dumb **** that he’s going to go to school and shoot up the school, the person he told needs to be held accountable until parents get the full message: that they must communicate with their children and have better relationships with their children so their children will tell them the truth. If this kind of thing happens it must be reported to authorities. Because in all honesty...that’s the only way we’re going to stop these kinds of tragedies. By charging any and all accomplices to the fullest extent of the law. that’s the only magic bullet we got. everything else is window dressing. Children talk. They always talk. They are compelled to talk. They just can’t help themselves. This particular kid was telling people on social media of all places.
That’s why am always perturbed when I hear Shaw and the dumbasses on TBS with this snitches get stitches bull crap. Snitches are hero’s!!
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like I said, Manfort has a huge pot of gold waiting for him when this is over. Manafort is not flipping so the offer must be really astonishing.
