The cover of New York Magazine: Parkland Survivor shirtless showing scars and colostomy bag.

[ehrnst]

On the cover is 15 year old Parkland student Anthony Borges who was shot five times Feb. 14 during the school massacre. The photo features him shirtless with his surgical scars exposed while wearing a colostomy bag. This is what high power weapons are designed to do.



Edited to add: You can share it on FB here - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154960667352614&set=a.84359007613&type=3&theater

[PJMcK]

1. I thought those guns were for hunting squirrels? (n/t)

[Bettie]

12. And that in the South you NEED an AR15

because there are huge gangs of feral hogs that attack out of nowhere and your only chance to escape is to kill them all.

[calimary]

16. Must be some other feral hogs then...

The only ones I’ve been noticing are the ones USING the AR-15s.

[Bettie]

22. Nah, they aren't smart enough

to be any brand of pig.

But they are definitely feral. ETA: Feral MAGATs!

[cstanleytech]

30. The hogs bought some used Klingon cloaking devices off ebay thus the need

for the weapons but I heard that everyone might need to upgrade to full automatic bazooks soon because apparently the hogs now bought the plans for the death stars superlaser.

[Iliyah]

2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[BumRushDaShow]

3. THIS is what has to be done

which is essentially what was done when Emmett Till's mother chose to have photos of her son published in an open casket.

[violetpastille]

26. +1

[ck4829]

48. Indeed

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. .

[workinclasszero]

5. Thanks NRA and all republicans!!!!!!!!!

Those racist gun humpin bastards LOVE THIS SHIT!!!!

[erronis]

36. They love it until the weapons are directed upon themselves. Forces of evil will escape.

And will destroy their owners.

[american_ideals]

40. And don't forget the gun company CEOs who fund the NRA; literally receiving blood money

Thread on this
https://www.democraticunderground.com/126212894

[Raster]

44. Smith and Wesson now refers to themselves as...

...American Outdoor Brands Corporation.

[american_ideals]

52. Yup, we shouldn't let them off the hook. They're famous gun maker Smith and Wesson.

[smirkymonkey]

53. Fucking freaks!

How did I know they would look just like THAT.

[lostnfound]

6. Anthony Borges. You brave young man. God BLESS YOU for your new courage and fearless altruism

On the cover, brave. You want this not to happen to other people. You have the courage of a warrior, to do the hard thing for the sake of saving others.

Live long, prosper, and may you thrive as you heal and expand your world.
Blessings.

[Funtatlaguy]

7. Show this to those who can't be bothered to take the time to vote

[Princess Turandot]

8. This is the young man who used his body to hold the door to his classroom closed...

..while the killer was actively firing at it. There were 20 other kids in the room with him.

Courageous once again.

[Honeycombe8]

9. OMG. This poor young man. What a hero. But Repubs won't care: he looks brown!

I swear there will be millions who think that (if they see this pic).

[Submariner]

11. He will be labeled a "Crisis Actor" wearing makeup and a fake colostomy bag

it's what republicans do.

[m-lekktor]

21. exactly. nt

[ck4829]

49. +1

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Such a brave, heroic young man.

[BSdetect]

13. He should get free full medical care for life and other coverage.

[Pobeka]

19. Paid by the NRA!!! n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

32. All victims of random shootings should.

At taxpayers expense, since the taxpayers have decided that our society should have essentially no restrictions on firearms, as a society we should be prepared to pay for the results.

[ck4829]

50. Yep

[hibbing]

14. Damn, that is powerful n/t

[Cousin Dupree]

15. Brave young man! Remember when the daily death tolls were reported during Vietnam?

People got so angry over the number of deaths and public support for the war declined. So the government stopped posting death tolls. We need to see the results of guns on the media every day. Maybe some minds would be changed by the horror.

[calimary]

17. What a sin. All I can think of is how hard his mother worked to build him that beautiful body.

And to have it defiled like this... her beautiful baby...

As a mother, this is so painful to see. My son is 26. And I’ve often reminded him - “you’ll ALWAYS be my baby.”

“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.”

[ChubbyStar]

39. What a beautiful post

Thank you Mary.

[world wide wally]

18. Feel safer now?

[lark]

20. OMG, tearing up for what happened to this wonderful caring young man.

He got these saving his classmates from being killed by a military weapon wielded by a trumper. This is just sick and wrong. The 2nd amendment writers never envisioned how wrong the rw would twist this amendment. It clearly does not say unfettered right to own guns as Russian Repug SCOTUS claims but in this sick upside down twisted world, that's what the idiots are enforcing during these tragic times. WE have got to have sensible people focused, not profit focused, change. That will only happen if we overwhelm their vote suppression and stealing efforts by creating a huge blue wave.

#GOTV
#VOTE
#BLUEWAVE
#RESIST

[SpankMe]

23. And the RW nut-fucks will be calling this a hoax in 3...2...1... n/t

[George II]

24. Doesn't look like a "crisis actor" to me.

[ehrnst]

33. IKR? (nt)

[Blue Owl]

25. This should be the NRA Annual Report cover

n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. GOPers love the NRA money

This is what GOPers, Fox, Limbaugh and TrumPutin trade for NRA money.

[Vinca]

28. OMG - that's so sad.

[SunSeeker]

29. Such a brave kid.

Such horrific injuries.

[FirstLight]

31. I read the article and watched the video

wow, just wow



The sheer NUMBER of just SCHOOL related shootings THHIS year is staggering...

i have no words. Working in an elementary school and also at Boys&Girls Club, we have lockdown drills now & then. It's something I can't even wrap my head around, when I was growing up we had Earthquake and Fire drills...

Horrifying

[wryter2000]

34. He's the hero who saved other kids, isn't he?

He was in the hospital for so long.

[obamanut2012]

45. Yes and Yes

[krakfiend]

35. Wow, that is just so .......

I can't even express how sorrowful that makes me feel for what kids face these days.

[uponit7771]

37. That is shocking, reminds me of the slave pic with the whip scars and I pray it has the same effect

[crosinski]

38. These are kinds of photos America needs to see.

Over and over again until it stops.

Bless him for his courage, soothe him for his pain.

[uponit7771]

51. +1

[lunasun]

41. Needs to be seen

[sheshe2]

42. You are a beautiful boy child.

The haunting look breaks my heart.

[JI7]

43. fucking gun nut assholes

[NurseJackie]

46. Did he lose his arm too? Or is it bent at the elbow?

[ck4829]

47. K&R

[smirkymonkey]

54. Poor kid. Those scars will always be with him.

As will the scars inside that we can't see. Goddamned gun nuts! Where is the sanity?