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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: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday October 20 2021, @10:36PM (2 children)
They read government press releases in front the camera, sometimes even when under fire. That's all they did for Trump too, in a funny kind of way... How long has that been standard practice? [courier-journal.com]
Where did I ever say that isn't so? What does that have to do with the press? You see some kind of substantive change where there is none, and I have already acknowledged the change in style that makes them so repulsive, and even that is driven by ratings... what was the question again?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday October 21 2021, @02:15PM (1 child)
There is a substantive change.
Once upon a time CNN was about journalism and reporting facts.
Now CNN is about politics, opinion, talking heads, and spreading a certain narrative. Just like Fox News.
I remember when CNN closed all of their foreign bureaus. At that time I thought "how are they going to report foreign news?"
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday October 21 2021, @07:27PM
All of mass media is following the same format. There is nobody to single out. Even NPR went Hollywood during the Lewinsky thing, had to wait all day to get regular news. Obviously they know more than you and I do about getting ratings
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..