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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStudent who survived shooting rips Florida GOP: Your prayers do nothing
In the wake of the nations third-deadliest school shooting in modern history, Trumps immediate reaction was to hide from the press, and then blame the students of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School for letting the shooting happen.
Other Republican politicians, however, like Floridas Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Rick Scott, have stuck to their simple and time-honored script: expressing sadness, praising law enforcement, and sending thoughts and prayers to the victims.
One person who is sick of the endless cycle of Republican empty words is 17-year-old Cameron Kasky, who was in the hallway with his brother when the shooter first pulled the fire alarm and began the attack. After making it home alive, Holden recounted his experience in a viral Facebook post.
Stoneman Douglas is an amazing school and I couldnt be luckier to go there, he wrote. We have seriously prepared for this type of event and on many occasions. Without our amazing faculty, there is a good chance many more would have been killed.
He added that those lost will never be forgotten and the entire community will come together and remember just how lucky we are to have what we have.
But when it came to his Republican governor and senator, he had only contempt.
Rubio and Scott are about to send their thoughts and prayers, he said. Those guys are garbage and if you voted for them, go to hell. Youre just as bad as they are. - Shareblue
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Student who survived shooting rips Florida GOP: Your prayers do nothing (Original Post)
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Feb 2018
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ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)2. Smart kid.........
Seeing what took place, there is no way any Republican, even Steve Scalise, can just send thoughts and prayers. Doing nothing is their way of complying with the NRA and doing their bidding for the blood money they have given to Republicans and Democrats in Congress. THAT is where the problem lies.......with the NRA.
Gothmog
(145,243 posts)4. Great response by this student
msongs
(67,406 posts)5. youth says what adult democratic policiticians will not say (for various reasons, none good)
Those guys are garbage and if you voted for them, go to hell. Youre just as bad as they are.
gademocrat7
(10,658 posts)6. Excellent response.