~~February 18, 2018~~Â
EMMA GONZALEZ
THE VOICES OF THE YOUNG
In the midst of a terrible mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, young voices are loudly raising to decry the lack of action from GOP politicians, including the ‘so-called president’, who are beholden to the NRA in view of the political campaign donations.
They have been bought and paid by the NRA.
This has to change.
It seems the generation coming up will not accept this!
HortyRex©
Florida school shooting survivor SLAMS Drumpf and Republicans for doing NOTHING to stop mass shootings
đ„ đ„ đ„Â EVERY WORD of this is FIRE đ„ đ„ đ„
“They say that tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS!
They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We call BS!
They say guns are just tools like knives and are as dangerous as cars. We call BS!”
Thanks to Emma GonzĂĄlez for giving this AMAZING speech.
By MATTHEW DESSEM
February 17, 2018
Emma GonzĂĄlez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who survived Wednesdayâs mass shooting, gave a blistering speech at an anti-gun rally on Saturday about the politicians complicit in the murder of her classmates. It was yet another reminder that the teenagers and children who grew up in the shadow of school shootings (and the 150,000 who survived one) are more practical – and less tolerant of empty rhetoric – than the adults who are supposed to protect them.
Gonzålez had no use for crocodile tears from Drumpf, who was in Florida on Friday, February 16, to offer his condolences (and, reportedly, to drop by a Studio 54 theme party at Mar-a-Lago):
If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy, and how it should never have happened, and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, Iâm going to happily ask him how much money
he received from the National Rifle Association.
But hey, you want to know something?
It doesnât matter, because I already know: $30 million.
To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you!
In February of 2017, one year ago, Drumpf repealed an Obama-era regulation that would have made it easier to block the sale of firearms to people with certain mental illnesses.
I donât need to be a psychologist to know that repealing that regulation was a really dumb idea. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa was the sole sponsor of this bill to stop the FBI from performing background checks on people adjudicated to be mentally ill, and now heâs stating for the record, âWell, itâs a shame that the FBI isnât doing background checks on these mentally ill people.â Well, duh: You took that opportunity away last year! The people in government who we voted into power are lying to us. And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and are prepared to call BS.
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