Florida School Shooting

[rogue06]

I still like you even though you're wrong 97%* of the time.



*87.2% of all statistics are totally made up

Actually, it's 83.42%

From an impeachable source

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[Cow Poke]

The poor kid making the "it's all about me" speech at the press conference....

[Cow Poke]

Meanwhile...

Parkland shooter always in trouble, never expelled. Could school system have done more?



A "free and appropriate" education at a public school near him, regardless of his danger to others?

[Sparko]

Meanwhile...

Parkland shooter always in trouble, never expelled. Could school system have done more?



A "free and appropriate" education at a public school near him, regardless of his danger to others?

Don't they offer GED courses in mental hospitals and prison? He probably should have been sent to Juvenile for his violations, or committed.

[carpedm9587]

Meanwhile...

Parkland shooter always in trouble, never expelled. Could school system have done more?



A "free and appropriate" education at a public school near him, regardless of his danger to others?

Everyone can Monday-morning quarterback. It's easy. You just look backwards at all the "signs" and then the subsequent tragedy and wonder "how did no one know?"

It's a lot harder BEFORE the trajedy, when you have a troubled kid, and you're trying to figure out how best to help her/him. If nothing s/he is doing crosses the line to "illegal," then what exactly do you do? Lock them up in case they might do something? Exile them from the education system because "it looks like you might someday do something to hurt someone?"

Perhaps a little less Monday-morning quarterbacking and a little more time spent looking at how a child, with his clear mental issues, managed to get his hands on firearms?

Or...of course... we can just continue to pontificate on how everyone else failed and second guess the whole thing. What the heck - while we're at it, why don't we join the chorus of claims that the kids speaking out about the situation are professional "crisis actors" bused in because they have good stage skills... sheesh...

[Cow Poke]

Perhaps a little less Monday-morning quarterbacking and a little more time spent looking at how a child, with his clear mental issues, managed to get his hands on firearms?

A CHILD?!?!?!?! SERIOUSLY!?!?!?

[Sparko]

Everyone can Monday-morning quarterback. It's easy. You just look backwards at all the "signs" and then the subsequent tragedy and wonder "how did no one know?"

And yet it is just fine for liberals to scream "gun control?"

It's a lot harder BEFORE the trajedy, when you have a troubled kid, and you're trying to figure out how best to help her/him. If nothing s/he is doing crosses the line to "illegal," then what exactly do you do? Lock them up in case they might do something? Exile them from the education system because "it looks like you might someday do something to hurt someone?"

Perhaps a little less Monday-morning quarterbacking and a little more time spent looking at how a child, with his clear mental issues, managed to get his hands on firearms?

Or...of course... we can just continue to pontificate on how everyone else failed and second guess the whole thing. What the heck - while we're at it, why don't we join the chorus of claims that the kids speaking out about the situation are professional "crisis actors" bused in because they have good stage skills... sheesh...

Thank you saint Carpe for your wise quarterbacking.

[carpedm9587]

And yet it is just fine for liberals to scream "gun control?"

Yes And not only liberals - us moderates too. Indeed, 64% of Americans, including 83% of Democrats, 58% of Independents, and 49% of Republicans want better/more gun control, as of 2017. As those numbers continue to increase, eventually, the stranglehold the NRA and the gunb lobby have on our politicians will be overwhelmed.

And it cannot happen soon enough for me.

Thank you saint Carpe for your wise quarterbacking.

You're welcome...

[carpedm9587]

A CHILD?!?!?!?! SERIOUSLY!?!?!?

Yes. A 19-year old is a man-child at best. They're a teenager, for pity's sake. The adolescent brain doesn't finish forming until mid-twenties, and the frontal cortex is notably delayed in developing. If their childhood has been troubled, as it appears was the case here, then they most likely are more child than man.

That does not excuse anything this young man did. It simply highlights the difficulty of predicting outcomes, and the ridiculous ease of "Monday Morning Quarterbacking."

[Cow Poke]

Yes. A 19-year old is a man-child at best.

Wow - so they're of legal age to drink, they can go to war and fight, but they're a "child" when they murder people in cold blood, absolving them of personal responsibility. That's just sick.

[Adrift]

Wow - so they're of legal age to drink, they can go to war and fight, but they're a "child" when they murder people in cold blood, absolving them of personal responsibility. That's just sick.

Wait what? Where are you getting that he's absolving them of personal responsibility? I think you're getting a little carried away.

[Cow Poke]

Wait what? Where are you getting that he's absolving them of personal responsibility? I think you're getting a little carried away.

Perhaps, but a CHILD?!!!?!?!? You honestly buy that?

[carpedm9587]

Wow - so they're of legal age to drink, they can go to war and fight, but they're a "child" when they murder people in cold blood, absolving them of personal responsibility. That's just sick.

I hate to break it to you - but they are a child for all of those other things too. We send children to war - they are the most pliable and amenable to the training - and least likely to question authority.

And nobody absolved anyone of personal responsibility. The young man/child, or young man, or child (whatever you want to call him), killed multiple people and deserves the full weight of the law (and then some) thrown at him.

Understanding the flow of human development does not absolve people.

[Darth Executor]

Yes And not only liberals - us moderates too

plz stop falsely labeling yourself as a moderate when you are a far left loon

[Adrift]

Perhaps, but a CHILD?!!!?!?!? You honestly buy that?

He's a kid. I'd've called him a kid. He's not a little baby who needs his hand held, nor is he blameless for his crimes, and I don't think that was really what carpe was getting at.