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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: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Wednesday October 20 2021, @09:16PM (4 children)
What made CNN the go to news source was because they had gotten reporters in the hotel on the night that the bombing began. They had battery operated satellite phones and were able to report along with some actual video. No other network news organization had this. I remember other channels, such as NBC, saying things like: "CNN is reporting blah blah blah". That is because the only facts they could get is that it was a fact that CNN was reporting some specific thing -- whether it was true or not.
The first gulf war is what made CNN popular. It had already existed as a 24/7 news channel. It became very popular because it was in the right times and places in the gulf war.
It's not about "truthful". It's about reporting simple facts and nothing more. This is what many news organizations did back in 1990. It was a different time. Journalism was still taken seriously. You may not be old enough to remember.
Other print news organizations got reporters in and reported similar facts. I remember reading things like Time, Newsweek, and others at the time. All of the news painted a coherent picture, consistent with what the Republican administration was itself publicly reporting.
You just cannot accept that news organizations may once have been something different and better than they are today.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 20 2021, @09:32PM
That would require actual critical thinking and would interfere with their political narrative.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday October 20 2021, @10:18PM (2 children)
Well, yeah, if they are the only ones there, you go to them, you go to anybody with a mic and camera. Doesn't make them any "better" or more credible. It's just serendipity... The magic worked. Like I said in the other post, only their tone changed, nothing is said without an opinion. I tuned out for the same reason, it's impossible to listen to.
And please, 1990 was hardly a different time (though your comment is amusing). We could still see people like Trump a mile away moving up the ranks, Bill Clinton, for instance, joined at the hips, helped Newt Gingrich (you remember him, don't you?) become speaker of the house a few years later. The far bigger change until they gave it up for Trump was in '68, lit the fuse... made Trump inevitable, a natural progression from Nixon and Reagan Gingrich, et al and all the democrats that assisted, like evolution itself. You may not be old enough to remember. I do, watched it live, Mayor Daley sure showed them...
Wait, what? being consistent the administration is "better"? And what was "coherent" about it? Yeah, okay, they finally came around and criticized Vietnam and made a small stink about the CIA (but that was well before 1990), but basically they remain the same mouthpiece as always. What has changed is their presentation, the story line hasn't.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 21 2021, @02:10AM
That sure took you a while to come up with, pretty lame for all that effort. Of course it was super simple for a sigma brain like you, sorry to insinuate you had to tax your grey matter!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 21 2021, @06:57AM
I used to like Canada's Naked News. It was probably more objective than most other news networks because the news was mostly incidental to the reason people watched it.