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(3,515 posts)rarely if ever make the news.
Thanks for posting this.
It's students like those that make me love my country so much.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)My tear dam broke
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)Yes, there is a lot of good in this world.
There's a lot more of us than them. That's why we need to work harder in the next 4-6 years to get good people to vote and help others vote. Harder than ever.
Docreed2003
(16,863 posts)Sam McGee
(347 posts)That must be it.
calimary
(81,314 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,627 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Worthy of countless and .
Oh, and a side rant:
Guess what, Orange Shitgibbon - this is exactly the kind of thing that MAKES AMERICA GREAT ALREADY!
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)snacker
(3,619 posts)This made me cry.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)Silver Gaia
(4,544 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)TNNurse
(6,927 posts)My God, these kids are giving me a little hope.
dchill
(38,503 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)TNNurse
(6,927 posts)Those assholes who are attacking the survivors of the shooting, need to face the fact that there are strong and decent humans and some of them are still in high school.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)but I still sit in stunned disbelief that the FL GOP had the audacity to pass nonsensical legislation about pornography on the same day they voted down even having hearings on gun control IN FRONT OF THE PARKLAND STUDENTS...
The youth of today are already pissed, but once they start paying attention and see exactly how fucked up the world we are leaving to them really is...man are they gonna lose it completely. The last 3 generations (Boomers, X, and Y) have left a steaming pile of turds for the future, with no mitigation planned and no lifeboats left behind.
America was once a beacon, we have become a lighthouse. No longer welcoming or inviting but now a warning and a tale of woe and what to avoid...
denbot
(9,900 posts)K&R
icymist
(15,888 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Almost lost it.
Hope it goes viral.
rainin
(3,011 posts)I'm hopeful this time as people are calling out the true criminals -- the NRA and the Republicans.
Demand a F rating for any future representative.
Demand the end of the NRA.
Point out every congressman who voted to defund Planned Parenthood because they claimed to care about unborn babies but now won't call out the NRA.
Demand divestiture or a boycott of every advertiser on any NRA radio show or magazine. SHUT THEM DOWN!!!
We need to organize to go after the NRA and every elected official who has taken money from them. They must LOSE THEIR JOB!
It's a new day. These kids are our future.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)These kids
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts).... btw I got something in my eye. "If anything happens, we are going to carry you."
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)At that age they are so sweet and kind and even if it took all 24 of them to lift me, they would do it.
ananda
(28,866 posts)This is what our country had come down to.
Words fail.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)I retired from teaching 3 years ago and it was constantly in my mind, What would I do if a shooter invaded our school? This is an absurd thought in peacetime America. We are putting millions of Americans through this same absurd exercise so a few people can have their fun at the shooting range? They all say that is all they want. Or else they want to pretend that they will save America from some mythical tyrant with their little peashooters against the armed forces.
Why do any of us buy into this absurdity?
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Encourage local city councils to past reasonable gun legislation. (I know that won't work in Florida, where it would be illegal.) Pass reasonable campaign donation laws. Then work to elect state legislators who will work to do the same. Go to town halls, organize parents to talk about sensible and reasonable gun laws to local legislators and state legislators.
And by GOD, work to get the ones that would rather get rich off the NRA than listen to voters fired! Remember, no matter how much money someone running for office gets for their campaign, it still comes down to the VOTERS!!!
Vote the NRA puppets OUT OF OFFICE! If you belong to the NRA, resign and tell them why! There are organizations for sportsmen you can join if you want to. You don't need to belong to an organization that cares only for making money for arms merchants!
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)On one side - teens that are brave enough and caring enough to risk their life for othes
And on the other side - scared, cowards that are afraid to be without their guns
TomSlick
(11,100 posts)I'm a cynical old bastard, I don't touch easily. Seems the last week, I cry every night.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)I have read this several times today, and am at a loss for words for how moving this is.
K&R