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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLil' Beauregard takes a time-out from his war on weed to explain what just happened in Florida.
Jeff Sessions Just Tried to Blame Florida School Shooting on Gang Violence
Too bad Parkland, Florida, has been rated one of the countrys safest cities.
Jackie Flynn MogensenFeb. 15, 2018 2:38 PM
In response to Wednesdays school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Attorney General Jeff Sessions implied, in a speech to a sheriffs convention in Washington on Thursday, that cracking down on gang violence could prevent school shootings.
When parents once again go to sleep fearful that their kids will not be safe, even when they go to schoolparents have told me in gang-infested neighborhoods that children can no longer stand at the bus stop by themselves, they take turns, parents do, of being out there every morning and afternoon, he said. So weve gotta confront the problem. Theres not doubt about it.
The problem with the statement is that in this case, the shooter had no known gang ties (though some have reported he was linked to a white supremacist group, Republic of Florida). Whats more, Parkland was just named Floridas safest city in 2017, according to an analysis by the Washington-based National Council for Home Safety and Security. Located just outside the Florida everglades, and about an hour out of Miami, the city is an affluent one thats intentionally designed to mimic a park, according to the councils website.
Sessions also said that effective enforcement of current gun laws, and focusing on criminals and dangerous people, mentally ill people could reduce gun violence. It is not good if we got gun laws that say criminals cant carry guns and they never get enforced. So we intend to enforce our laws, he said.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/jeff-sessions-just-tried-to-blame-florida-school-shooting-on-gang-violence/
Too bad Parkland, Florida, has been rated one of the countrys safest cities.
Jackie Flynn MogensenFeb. 15, 2018 2:38 PM
In response to Wednesdays school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Attorney General Jeff Sessions implied, in a speech to a sheriffs convention in Washington on Thursday, that cracking down on gang violence could prevent school shootings.
When parents once again go to sleep fearful that their kids will not be safe, even when they go to schoolparents have told me in gang-infested neighborhoods that children can no longer stand at the bus stop by themselves, they take turns, parents do, of being out there every morning and afternoon, he said. So weve gotta confront the problem. Theres not doubt about it.
The problem with the statement is that in this case, the shooter had no known gang ties (though some have reported he was linked to a white supremacist group, Republic of Florida). Whats more, Parkland was just named Floridas safest city in 2017, according to an analysis by the Washington-based National Council for Home Safety and Security. Located just outside the Florida everglades, and about an hour out of Miami, the city is an affluent one thats intentionally designed to mimic a park, according to the councils website.
Sessions also said that effective enforcement of current gun laws, and focusing on criminals and dangerous people, mentally ill people could reduce gun violence. It is not good if we got gun laws that say criminals cant carry guns and they never get enforced. So we intend to enforce our laws, he said.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/jeff-sessions-just-tried-to-blame-florida-school-shooting-on-gang-violence/
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Lil' Beauregard takes a time-out from his war on weed to explain what just happened in Florida. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Feb 2018
OP
If The Killer Smoked Pot, Sessions Would Blame The Killings On That For Sure nt
SoCalMusicLover
Feb 2018
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)1. Where are your "anglo" sheriffs now, asshole!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. Effective enforcement of gun laws, Jefferson?
Didn't your president repeal one of those last year? The law that tried to keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill folks who exhibited murderous tendencies? Why don't you go down to Florida and have a little chat with the parents at Douglas High about their gangs and their drug dealing and their hippity hop music?
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)3. If The Killer Smoked Pot, Sessions Would Blame The Killings On That For Sure nt
suffragette
(12,232 posts)4. Even if he didn't smoke pot. Anything to not
Examine real linkages like the white supremicist one and to keep from enacting any meaningful legislation.
Initech
(100,080 posts)5. Well if the "gang" in question happens to be a white nationalist militia...
Then he is correct in that regard.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)6. Sessions is a wannabe ventriloquist... He talks out of his ass