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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) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 22 2021, @11:22PM (4 children)
Anderson Cooper, on day 4, embarrassed a senator. That's day 4. The other two videos you offer are reminiscences, long after the fact.
I do not recall any news network doing 24/7 coverage from downtown New Orleans during that first week after Katrina landed. I think that CNN did a better job than the others, but still, CNN news crews weren't hounding officials at FEMA, or at the National Guard headquarters, or at the White House.
Day four, our Fair Haired boy, whom you have identified as Anderson Cooper, brought a senator to bay, and hit her with some unsettling facts. Why weren't there 50 other news hounds at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. demanding answers on day two?
I'm having a problem with the thrust of your posts. Are you implying that Bush was the only person in the nation who had any responsibility in that fiasco?
Once again - the mayor didn't reach out through official channels. I've allowed that maybe he has a half-assed excuse. The governor didn't reach out. The Civil Service didn't reach out. (Parenthetically, I had a run-in with one of those fine Civil Sercice badge-carrying assholes, in New Orleans - a completely ignorant fuck.) National Guard, Corps of Engineers, State Police, none of them contacted the outside world.
Day four. One embarrassed senator being mauled by a reporter got results, the following day.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 23 2021, @12:01AM (3 children)
What they are "reminiscing" about is their coverage of the Katrina story which they were doing from Day 1, you blithering tool!!!
No, I'm implying that he and a certain few others in his administration were not paying attention to what was going on and being covered live 24/7 on the news. They were oblivious while a city on US soil was literally drowning.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 24 2021, @03:37AM (2 children)
Didn't you catch the memo? "The buck stops here," is now "the buck stops here, unless you are a Republican."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 24 2021, @04:35PM (1 child)
"The Buck Stops Here" - Truman
"The Buck Will Stop With You" - Obama
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 27 2021, @12:26AM
"I'll put the bucks in my pocket. Anything else, you're on your own." - Trump