Remembering Parkland today.

[FM123]

I live in Broward county, about a half hour from MSD high school where this tragedy happened. I am still sad and angry and still can't believe sometimes that it actually happened, and that it has been a year...

From Sun Sentinel:

"It’s been a year since Broward’s worst nightmare set foot on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and unleashed a hell we can never, ever forget.

Kids shot while sitting at their desks. Kids shot while trying to run or hide. Kids shot so many times they couldn’t be identified for hours. Not just kids, either, but a teacher trying to let kids into his classroom, an athletic director trying to lead kids to safety and a coach trying to intervene.

The toll didn’t end with 17 people shot dead, either. Seventeen other people were shot and survived, forever scarred. Plus, thousands of students, teachers, parents and neighbors were forever traumatized.

It hard to believe it’s been a year since 2/14, which is what survivors call the day. The name is appropriate, given how Valentine’s Day devolved into Broward’s 9/11.

Don’t call today the first anniversary, either. Those still surviving the horror day-by-day will tell you today is no celebration. Call it a commemoration."

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-op-edit-stoneman-douglas-parkland-20190213-story.html

[Danmel]

1. I know the mother of Scott Beigel, the teacher killed

While protecting his students.
She has endured tragedy beyond our imagination and has become a fierce advocate for stronger gun control.

I work for a local elected official and we worked with her and her husband and Moms Demand Action, to pass gun reform here in NY where she lives and where her son grew up.

I will never be able to wrap my brain around people who love their guns more than they love their children.
And arming teachers is one of the stupidest things i've ever heard. The day before yesterday, an NYPD officer was killed in the line of duty by friendly fire. If trained officers are disoriented and frantic , how do we think a teacher in a room full of students would be.
What is tragic is that we just seem forced to Iive with the knowledge that at any time, anywhere, someone can just randomly blow us to smithereens.

[democrank]

2. Remembering Parkland....