Parkland Shooting ~ One Year Later
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. Sadly, here in the U.S., today is also the first anniversary of the mass shooting at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, that resulted in the deaths of fourteen high school students and three school faculty members.
While an initial sense of hopelessness descended upon our nation, for those of us who believe in common sense gun reform, that’s slowly given way to cautious optimism. The students who survived that horrifying massacre have created a movement for change that for the first time has outlasted the initial news cycle. In 2018, at least 67 new gun laws were enacted in in Florida and 26 other states, as well as the District of Columbia. In Washington, 17 newly elected House members are supporters of stricter gun laws and more than two dozen House members who were backed by the National Rifle Association were defeated…
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Posted on 02/14/2019, in Gun Control, Holiday, Uncategorized and tagged gun control, mass shooting, Parkland high school, valentine day. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
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Thanks for sharing this Xena.
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From: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/14-children-died-in-the-parkland-shooting-nearly-1200-have-died-from-guns-since/ar-BBTySWs
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Time has flown by so fast how that was a little over a year ago. I hope the families of the victims find healing ever still.
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Time has flown. I’m hopeful that the families will deal with their grief in a positive way as time goes on. Grief is the price we pay for loving.
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Of course and I wish the same for those families.
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I love these children, perhaps they can do what we have failed to do, protect them from being killed at school
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Mindmyme,
They are certainly having an impact.
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