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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, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 20 2021, @10:00PM (12 children)
Self defense is homicide, but self defense is not murder. You have to be truly fucked in the head to say that it is.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Wednesday October 20 2021, @11:30PM (11 children)
Self defense is justifiable homicide. Does it still go on your permanent record?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 20 2021, @11:44PM (10 children)
Records are fungible if you have money.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 21 2021, @08:03AM (9 children)
And since Kyle does not have enough money, murder sympathizing Runaway and friends are perfectly willing to help raise some! Build the Wall!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 21 2021, @08:47AM (8 children)
As a matter of fact, I donated early. The almost spammy followup emails are getting tiresome. Kyle raised enough money for his defense within ~4 or 5 months. He has been commoditized, and the emails soliciting donations keep on coming.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 21 2021, @10:43PM
Sucker you are
(Score: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Friday October 22 2021, @11:20AM (6 children)
How much did you contribute to the Nicholas Cruz defense fund, Runaway? Need to be supportive of second Remberment rights, no matter what the case, right?
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 22 2021, @03:10PM (5 children)
You're an ignorant ass, and so is the person who modded you up. Cruz murdered defenseless people who had never done anything to him. Innocent kids for the most part, who haven't had an opportunity to offend anyone. Innocent people, chosen at random.
The people Kyle killed were rioting, and they assaulted him. The person Kyle wounded was another rioter, who first assaulted Kyle with a deadly weapon.
There is nothing similar about the cases.
Ignant moran. Try to pretend that you're a philosopher, so long as you strut around here wearing that nick.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday October 22 2021, @11:33PM (4 children)
Runaway! You are an ignorant moron, and nothing proves it like your support of teenaged murders! Both of these high school students brought a weapon into a situation looking to kill someone. That proves malum in mens, premeditated malicious intend, which is the defining element of murder. One of them has pled guilty, the other has become a cause célèbre for right-wing death-cult fascists, and idiot donors like yourself.
You can pretend you are an aged American delinquent runaway, strutting around with your nick, but we all know what evil lurks in the heart of covert Trump supporters.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 22 2021, @11:48PM (3 children)
You're an idiot. Every time to offer an opinion regarding Rittenhouse, you only prove yourself a bigger idiot. Rittenhouse killed a pair of convict idiot rioters, each of whom attacked him first. Funny how libruls don't like examining the past history of the rioters. Child molesters, burglars, thieves, con-men, deserters from the military, etc ad nauseum.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday October 23 2021, @12:00AM (2 children)
NO, Runaway! You are the idiot. Murdering murders is still murder. Rittenhauser did not accidently kill, he went out armed with lethal intent. Funny how covert Trump supporters love themselves murderers, con men, wall-building swinders, "Gym" Jordan style pedofile enablers, Oath-braking Arkansas hillbilly ex-truckers, and Hucktser Carlsen. Kyle was of the same sort as Adam, just one of them went to an elementary school. Kyle should swing, or fry, or do some drugs. Fortunately, I am pro-life, and reject capital punishment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 23 2021, @03:50AM (1 child)
So ari, care to share the details of what you allegedly or not did to get a 6+ month mod ban?
(Score: 1, Troll) by Frigatebird on Saturday October 23 2021, @07:13AM
I don't know, but I am pretty sure that aristarchus did not kill multiple people with an AR-15 Insult riffle, in order to get mod-banned. On the other hand, we really know very little of how the Lords of Soylent dispense "justice", so maybe he did. But in any case, the equivalency seems farfetched.
#Freearistarchus!!!!