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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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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, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday October 20 2021, @05:11PM (8 children)
Who made that promise and why did you take it seriously enough to mention it? What's sad is that anyone could have made that promise. It could have been a pro-firearm supporter or opponent.
I think this illustrates two of the great flaws of US society (as well as other democracies). First, placing more importance on promises than on action/history. Present day budget deficits are in large part due to voters taking promises more seriously than budget trends.
Second, is a myopic attitude towards risk. Harming the freedom of hundreds of millions of people for the sake of a few hypothetical lives is insane. But it's a typical risk-oriented decision in today's society with several examples discussed in recent days (such as bailing out businesses).
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 20 2021, @05:20PM (5 children)
Amazing how khallow is so consistently able to get things wrong while still somewhat accurately describing the situation. Then again, he stated that his main purpose here is to argue. Only slighy better than being a troll, not by much and in some ways much worse.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 20 2021, @06:06PM (1 child)
He's only being correct, which is the ultimate troll. Shall not be infringed, fucker.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday October 20 2021, @06:59PM
Hey, you have a right to travel. But not necessarily to operate a motor vehicle. Similarly, you can still be armed even if you individually are one of a very few who should not have a firearm.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 20 2021, @09:58PM (2 children)
Amazing how so many of you come here just to complain and bellyache about people who post. Seriously, khallow may or may not have contributed something to this discussion - but you have contributed nothing at all.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 21 2021, @12:44AM (1 child)
Contributing nothing is better than being a net drain like you and your ilk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 21 2021, @01:58AM
Ha! So true.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday October 20 2021, @05:32PM
The Party cannot win any other way, in fact, they wouldn't even get a place on the ballot.
Present day deficits are due to the Wall Street bailouts, and the interest on your national "debt". That money could fulfill the politicians promises a few times over
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 21 2021, @07:47AM
Oh, quite so. Do you know what this is? It is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun made. So tell me, khallow punk, do you feel "lucky"? Well, do ya, punk?
(We all await khallow's risk distributed answer that would maximize freedom at the risk of only one or two khallows being "accidently" killed by rogue cops. )