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Parkland students to march on Florida Capitol
Posted by FLTech on 2/19/18 at 11:53 am10
I guess my question is how in the world can High School Students afford to go to Washington DC to Protest?
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TALLAHASSEE — A hundred students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland will travel to Tallahassee for a march on the state Capitol Wednesday in the first organized protest of their #NeverAgain movement.
Their demand: that Florida legislators use the remaining three weeks of their annual session to revise state mental health and gun laws to forestall a repeat of the Parkland school shooting that killed 17 students and staff.
“It really needs to be recognized that they need to stop fighting each other and starting working together,? said Jaclyn Corin, 17, junior class president and a survivor of the shooting, who conceived the idea for the two-day trip. “This has to be the last school this happens to.”
The students and about 15 parent chaperones will travel to Tallahassee by bus Tuesday in advance of small-group meetings with legislators that are planned Wednesday, and then return later that day. They leave after the Tuesday morning funeral of Carmen Schentrup, 16, who was killed when their former classmate, Nikolas Cruz, killed students and teachers with an AR-15 last Wednesday.
Corin said she and her classmates want the state to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. They also want to make it more difficult for those with histories of mental illness to legally access weapons.
“We emphasize the need for more attention to mental health. We know a lot of people, and politicians, would prefer that over gun control, but we want to emphasize both,? Corin said. “We don’t want to take away people’s gun rights. This movement understands that people have that right under the Second Amendment, but we just want alterations and restriction.”
Corin said students will start by asking legislators to review gun laws in other countries and reject the National Rifle Association’s logic.
“The NRA brainwashes us to think these rules and laws can’t work here,? Corin said. “We think they can. In what world would a civilian need an assault rifle? There’s no common sense reason.”
To sportsmen and those who say they need the weapons for self defense, Corin says: “There’s so many other guns they could use. We don’t need guns in our community that can fire off 100 bullets in a matter of 10 minutes.”
Cameron Kasky, another Douglas high student who started the #NeverAgain movement, announced Sunday that on March 24, students are organizing rallies across the country to demand that lawmakers reject money from the NRA and say “never again.”
“My message for people in office is: you’re either with us or against us. We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around,” Kasky on CNN’s “State of the Union. “We don’t need you. On March 24, you are going to be seeing students in every single major city. We have our lives on the line here.”
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by The Pirate King on 2/19/18 at 11:54 am to FLTech
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I guess my question is how in the world can High School Students afford to go to Washington DC to Protest?
Donations from gofundme or wealthy benefactors like Soros
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by LSU Patrick on 2/19/18 at 11:55 am to The Pirate King
Probably getting a little under the table money too.
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by SCLibertarian on 2/19/18 at 11:58 am to FLTech
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We don’t want to take away people’s gun rights. This movement understands that people have that right under the Second Amendment, but we just want alterations and restriction.
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by GeneralLee on 2/19/18 at 11:59 am to FLTech
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To sportsmen and those who say they need the weapons for self defense, Corin says: “There’s so many other guns they could use. We don’t need guns in our community that can fire off 100 bullets in a matter of 10 minutes.”
Haha. I could pull off that rate of fire with my Henry lever action rifle (19th century technology). Shows these kids have no idea about the underlying weapons and rights they are trying to take away from law abiding citizens.
This post was edited on 2/19 at 12:01 pm
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“My message for people in office is: you’re either with us or against us. We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around,” Kasky on CNN’s “State of the Union.
Standard leftist tactic of pitting sides and painting one in a can't win position from the start.
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I'm definitely not with those fascist pieces of shite that want to disarm citizens.
A few years after Venezuelans were disarmed, an actual dictator was installed and Venezuelans are eating their own pets to survive.
Added: just 13 Russian trolls motivated almost a million libs to take to the streets and march, across multiple cities. So our population is just as fricked up as the population of Venezuela that demanded their guns be taken away.. before they marched for socialism. So the shite that happened there, can just as easily happen here.
A few years after Venezuelans were disarmed, an actual dictator was installed and Venezuelans are eating their own pets to survive.
Added: just 13 Russian trolls motivated almost a million libs to take to the streets and march, across multiple cities. So our population is just as fricked up as the population of Venezuela that demanded their guns be taken away.. before they marched for socialism. So the shite that happened there, can just as easily happen here.
This post was edited on 2/19 at 12:10 pm
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by JEAUXBLEAUX on 2/19/18 at 12:10 pm to themunch
The yoith shall teach the adults. No more guns
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by themunch on 2/19/18 at 12:10 pm to SCLibertarian
They do not want to infringe but they want to infringe.
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by TigersSEC2010 on 2/19/18 at 12:11 pm to FLTech
Who is a bigger bogeyman in liberal loony world: the NRA or the KKK?
Liberals would make you think that both are a quietly ruining America.
Liberals would make you think that both are a quietly ruining America.
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by Tiger Prawn on 2/19/18 at 12:13 pm to FLTech
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We don’t need guns in our community that can fire off 100 bullets in a matter of 10 minutes.
This statement shows how little these kids actually understand about guns.
You can have a bolt action rifle with magazines that only hold 4-5 rounds and still manage to get off a lot more than 10 rounds per minute if you had enough magazines.
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by TigersSEC2010 on 2/19/18 at 12:16 pm to FLTech
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“There’s so many other guns they could use. We don’t need guns in our community that can fire off 100 bullets in a matter of 10 minutes.”
I can fire off 100 bullets in 10 minutes with a fricking single shot BB gun. These kids are fricking idiots.
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by Bayou_Tiger_225 on 2/19/18 at 12:19 pm to Tiger Prawn
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We don’t need guns in our community that can fire off 100 bullets in a matter of 10 minutes.”
I own 18 guns that are a wide variety of makes, models, and actions. The only gun I couldn't put 100 rounds through in 10 minutes is my muzzleloader.
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by choupiquesushi on 2/19/18 at 12:20 pm to GeneralLee
somebody needs to tell them the deadliest school shooter used a handgun....
re: Parkland students to march on Florida CapitolPosted by artisticsavant on 2/19/18 at 12:22 pm to FLTech
Does that mean that school vacations can be done away with with all the marching and protesting taking kids out of class?
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