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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 01:24 PM Feb 2018

Florida Shooting Survivor Calls for Action: Were Children. You Guys Are the Adults.

Source: nytimes



Niraj Chokshi Feb 15, 2018


..............................Mr. Hogg said that he was in an Advanced Placement environmental science class at the school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., when students in the classroom heard a gunshot and alerted a teacher, who closed the door. Soon after, he said, a fire alarm began sounding and the students evacuated the classroom.

Outside, Mr. Hogg encountered a mass of running students, which he joined. A janitor stopped and redirected the crowd, saving them from heading in the direction of the shooter, and the group eventually found safety in a culinary classroom.

“Students are dying trying to get an education,” Mr. Hogg said. “That’s not OK. That’s not acceptable.”

Mr. Hogg, whose younger sister lost two friends in the shooting, called on politicians to act.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/us/david-hogg-florida-shooting.html?mabReward=ART_TS4&recid=10azfKUYhYe1J6iwpAJZ4t06qJV&recp=1



Please pass this tweet to your Senators and Reps.






Kelsey Friend and David Hogg, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., appeared on CNN on Thursday. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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Florida Shooting Survivor Calls for Action: Were Children. You Guys Are the Adults. (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2018 OP
janitor Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #1
That young man is brilliant. Freedomofspeech Feb 2018 #2
Will Freepers claim this is a false flag set up by liberals? IronLionZion Feb 2018 #3
They already are jmowreader Feb 2018 #4

IronLionZion

(45,450 posts)
3. Will Freepers claim this is a false flag set up by liberals?
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 01:45 PM
Feb 2018

Florida has very loose gun laws, GOP control of their state government, and brave Floridians. Why didn't some good Floridian with a gun save the day like the hero every Republican fantasizes about?

Whoa, I just read that the asshole was reported to the feds back in September for making online threats to do exactly this. This is on the Trump administration and Jeff Sessions.

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