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Nikolas Cruz pleads guilty to murder charges and apologizes for Parkland high school massacre
Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who carried out the massacre of students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018, pleaded guilty in a Florida courtroom Wednesday to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder.
Cruz, 23, faces a minimum of life in prison and maximum of the death penalty, which will be decided by a jury in the upcoming sentencing phase of the trial. The prosecution has said they plan to seek the death penalty.
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Gunman Pleads Guilty in Parkland School Shooting
Nikolas Cruz pleads guilty to all charges in 2018 Parkland massacre
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It is good that the perpetrator of such a crime may be brought to justice.
I remember after the Columbine school shootings when it was promised that this would never be allowed to happen again. Unfortunately, our country strives to make it easy for children to access firearms unsupervised.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., mocked a Florida school shooting survivor as an "idiot" who "only talks when he is scripted" in a 2019 interview with a Georgia gun group, according to a previously unreported video obtained by NBC News.
"He is very trained. He's like a dog. He's completely trained," Greene said of the survivor, David Hogg, now 20, in an interview with Georgia Gun Owners Inc. in April 2019, less than two years before she was elected to Congress.
Videos of Greene, a freshman Republican, berating Hogg in Washington surfaced last week after she was appointed to the House Education and Labor Committee. House Democrats are pushing to bar her from serving on any committees, citing in part her previous statements suggesting that the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, were hoaxes.
How do people like this come to power? Where do they find voters who will vote for such people? Does this only happen in the USA? I feel confident that the good people of her voting district in Georgia will continue to re-elect her.
I like her "Trump Won" mask, now that it is abundantly clear he did not win after many lawsuits and audits later.
It is amazing to live in a time when people will believe the most ridiculous outlandish things without any critical thought. People can no longer tell fact from fantasy. Or facts simply do not matter.
Update: A prediction: Trump will win in 2024. Yes, really.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 22 2021, @08:56PM
Your first link. I don't recognize her, but the senator is blathering about what a good job she and congress is doing? Fair haired boy in the background, "Excuse me senator . . . for 4 days I've been seeing bodies in the streets . . ."
That is exactly what I was talking about. And, it took 4 days to get the message out there. On the 5th day, George told his people to find out WTF was happening.
I'll give you this: My memory of Katrina isn't as sharp as it was in 2005. But, it was quite personal for me. I made a delivery in New Orleans 3 days before Katrina, and I made another on day 8 or 9 after. Went into the city in company with the Colorado National Guard, in fact. When I left New Orleans, I went to Mississippi, where the damage was at least as bad, and probably worse. So, even after 11 years of growing older, I still have a pretty clear memory of the news I was seeing after Katrina.
The word was not going out, loud enough, or soon enough, or long enough.
I thank you for your links - and here's one for you. https://southernspaces.org/2009/x-codes-post-katrina-postscript/ [southernspaces.org]
Just look at the photo for a moment before scrolling down. I can't say whether I saw that particular house when I went back into New Orleans. But, I saw hundreds like it on my first post-Katrina trip, and thousands more in succeeding trips to the city.