PARKLAND, Fla. – The Florida chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and a member of the Everytown Survivor Network, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety, responded to a shooting today at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. While details are still unfolding, reports indicate numerous fatalities and injuries.
According to Everytown research, this was at least the 18th school shooting nationwide in 2018, and at least the 291st since January 2013. Everytown and Moms Demand Action have kept an index of school shootings in America since 2013 – recording anytime a firearm is discharged inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds, including: injuries, fatalities, suicides and unintentional discharges. Any time a gun is discharged on school grounds, it is a tragedy.
STATEMENT FROM COLIN GODDARD, A MEMBER OF THE EVERYTOWN SURVIVOR NETWORK WHO WAS SHOT AND INJURED IN THE MASS SHOOTING AT VIRGINIA TECH ON APRIL 16, 2007:
“The moment that gunshots rang out in my classroom at Virginia Tech, my eyes opened to the reality that students sitting in class – in the right place, at the right time – can become victims of gun violence. Too many students and families in Parkland, Florida, are now suffering because they understand it too. Every day a student goes to school, they deserve to come home. We have to get this right. We must fight for safer gun laws to put an end to the gun violence crisis that plagues our nation.”
STATEMENT FROM SHANNON WATTS, FOUNDER OF MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA:
“As a mom of five children, I’m outraged that yet another community has been traumatized by gun violence. This is at least the 18th school shooting this year alone, which is difficult to fathom. And yet, it’s our current reality in America. Kids and educators deserve to be safe, and parents shouldn’t worry that their children will be shot at school. We know stronger gun laws reduce gun violence. Every American must commit to taking action to end gun violence – we must demand more than ‘thoughts and prayers’ from our lawmakers, and they must find the courage to be part of the solution and finally put a stop to this.”
STATEMENT FROM KATHRYN REEVE, A FORT LAUDERDALE-BASED VOLUNTEER WITH THE FLORIDA CHAPTER OF MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA:
“Today’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is a nightmare for any parent. While watching police and paramedics respond on the news, thousands of parents are waiting to find out if their child is ok, if they will come home for dinner tonight, or if they are even alive. Some parents may never see their children again. This simply is not the world we want to live in — and anyone who says we must accept this as normal is wrong. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. But thoughts and prayers aren’t enough, which is why Moms Demand Action volunteers will not rest until we pass strong legislation to keep guns out the hands of people with dangerous intentions. We can and must demand our elected leaders do more to keep our communities safe from gun violence.”
We protect our banks and money with people with guns…we protect our politicians and other notable celebrities with people with guns…we protect our government facilities with people with guns…we protect our children with “gun-free zones” and signs…Isn’t it time to take a realistic approach and protect our children the same way we protect our money, politicians, and government facilities??
And the sun also rises.
Home school folks. It’s the only way for your child to get a good education instead of an indoctrination and everyone can carry a gun!
The problem is one of how we as citizens either live in freedom with the risk that there will always be some who violate our rights by misusing their freedoms, or do we live in a police state where each risk is taken care of by legal restrictions. While I hate to see innocent children killed by a crazy student, I don’t think you can stop crazy people with restrictions on the tools they use.
The tragedy may be that a parent was careless with storage of firearms or that a parent did not care to see that this was coming. Look at many of these tragedies and you can see that many know that the actors needed help and some form of restraint, but did not act.
I have two safes full of firearms and ALL of my firearms and ammunition are locked up, before my grandkid comes over, I make sure they are all safe. He is a safe and well trained, but better to be safe.
Restrictions on what you can own, universal background checks will NOT stop these killers, only action by those who can bring them to the courts will help.
Regards
Rick Bunn
This vermin was a legal adult with no criminal history. (Thanks to the bleeding heart liberals not reporting the threats that caused his expulsion to the police and pressing charges.) Only in Demokkkrat hellholes can you threaten a school full of children, post threatening pictures of yourself with weapons along with ISIS propaganda and NOT wind up in jail. Well… so long as your skin is the right color, anyway.
So MDA’s recommendation is to do what exactly?
Another tragic event that could’ve been avoided if this country had just listened to the civilized world and Americans that are sick of this nonsense.
These attacks don’t happen on a constant daily basis in the rest of the civilized world.
How’s the “thoughts and prayers” helping?
If gun laws were passed after an NRA nutter attacked a school in 2012. None of these shootings would’ve never happened.
So where is JamesDThePharmD on here that gloated about the EXTREMELY RARE stabbing spree in china were only 1 person died and dozens wounded. He needs to look at this and explain to me how getting stabbed and walking away alive worse than getting shot?
This is now the 30th mass shooting that has happened at the beginning of this year.
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting
You people talk big about your outdated archaic freedom to kill; But you love to ignore your “right” has violated the freedoms of innocent people who are possibly dead or dying. I’m sure you can explain to their families why your “right” trumps the lives of their children to live and go to school without fear.
And the NRA, TTAG and it’s supporters won’t care because they covet their guns more than lives. They will come up with all kinds of excuses but in the end they support murder.
Keep denying that your “Right” isn’t a problem to anyone.
All I’ve seen is gun reich supporters saying that the guns aren’t the problem. It’s a complete and total lie and every single one of you who falls back on NRA jargon and the tired 2nd amendment spiel are complicit in every single one of these incidents. Countries that have very strict gun laws do not have these problems. Ever.
As you bathe in the blood of the innocent who died from a tragedy that could’ve been prevent. I will go out to mourn for the victims and go help my community.
You can go waste your time being slaves to your archaic outdated “right” and stock up on more useless armaments while complaining about how “communists” in your sick minds are trying to take your rights away while hiding in your makeshift mancave shelters stroking your assault rifles and listening to kooks like alex jones and your russian puppet trump.
Continue to be slaves to your “right” and Live in fear.
I an american that loves this country and the rights & princples it stands for will not.
Hitler, is that you? Not dead I see.
I love how you keep telling mass shootings never happen in your beloved “civilized” countries when they do. How many shot and killed in Mexico and the rest of Central and South America today? Or the recent shooting in Spain? So what are you ignorant or a liar?
In 2013 the CDC established there are 500,000 to 3,000,000 cases of legal self-defense with a gun in a year. That outweighs all gun deaths, injuries, and violent crimes committed with a gun combined. When it comes to interpersonal violence guns save 50-300 times more lives than take. The argument that gun ownership is such a negative force in the US is nonsense.
As long as we’re talking stabbings, on March 2, 2014, a mass stabbing in China left 29 dead and 130 injured.
Then there’s gasoline –
Since 2009 there have been at least 6 suicide/terrorist firebomb attacks on Chinese buses and train stations, killing at least 200 people.
I won’t even get into how many deaths Mao and his followers have been responsible for over the decades!
DrDKW
Now now, everyone, this person wants to stand on a soap box and lecture us on our misguided ways, let’s hear him out. Please, tell us, oh wise one, how would our lives be better without the primary means to protect ourselves and our families from harm?
Keep in mind we have rules to abide by. Please link us to sites and stats that aren’t funded by Left wing billionaires. I would like to see proper, unaltered data and graphs. Ones that count all countries in their data. Facts and data that doesn’t omit variables that would vastly sway the end conclusion.
Show me how a bad guy can be reliably stopped by something other than a gun. Show me the methods used to fend off someone, or several people, hell bent on beating your brains out, that doesn’t involve a force multiplier like a gun. How many police officers would be saved, or lost, if all guns were banned? Please account for all violence, not just the illegal use of firearms. Finally, please remember, that gun violence doesn’t include justified or self defense shootings.
Don’t just spew emotions, back them up with hard data that has credible sources. Do this, and I might consider your argument.
Until then, I’ll stick to my guns.
Can we try arming teachers? Please? SMH this is awful.
The number of school shootings that is now taken as fact (19) is horseshit.
It includes ND by a cop, accidental discharge by students, gang drive-by, and, apparently, a round fired from *somewhere* that hit a school.
Just… what a monstrous group of people to lie about what is a genuine tragedy.
https://everytownresearch.org/school-shootings/
I just haste makes waste isn’t in the FMDA lexicon?
Wait, I heard one report that ‘first responders’ caught the turd a mile away, an hour after he left the school. So much for first responders stopping anything…
NONE of these racist gun control psychos cared one bit about “the children” during the 80s and 90s when it was poor inner city children who were (and still are!) being victimized. Same thing with the drug problem, none of these people cared when it was in the urban areas. As soon as suburbia got hit, though, watch out!
Guns don’t kill people. People use guns as an implement of murder to kill people. It is the American culture of hate instead of goodness that is the cause. The sooner we start encouraging people to treat one another as they would want to be treated, the sooner this abhorrent behavior will start to subside. America is great because its people are good. Time to promote principals of respect and good character in our children again.
We are taking God out of our culture, in effect, turning away from God. This needs to be reversed.
We are one nation UNDER GOD. Time to actively recognize that fact. Otherwise more of this shit will be in the news.
America does NOT have a “culture of hate”. Americans by-and-large are loving, God-fearing people who have put up too long with the hateful sub-cultures and sub-humans in our midsts! I’ll bet dollars to donuts that in addition to this poor soul’s other troubles he was on meds and/or drugs.
“Notice that no one’s moving away from the angle of attack or hiding or, well, anything.”
Yeah, most kids (hell, most adults) sitting in class aren’t going to be able to assess a situation like this. You really expect 14 year old Timmy to do a mental run down here? “What is the angle of attack? Is this cover or concealment? Will this plastic desk or chair stop a pistol round? Is the gunman that is actively trying to kill me even using a pistol, or is it a rifle? Does he have a buddy with him that is also trying to kill me?”
Well, it is ash Wednesday. Maybe he hates Catholics and BMW guy had some ash cross on his forehead. Or maybe the dude in the BMW is Muslim and Camero guy lost it over that. Or maybe BMW guy had a “COEXIST” bumper sticker and Camero guy hates atheists. Who knows…. In any event, if a primary motivating factor in using violence is based on religion, sexual orentation, race, blah, blah, blah… then “hate crime”.
I can’t subscribe to comments, so I won’t be responding to any responses.
You have nothing to blame except the DemoCRAPic Liberals and their social engineering projects with our public schools. THEY have created these problems as a result of THEIR experimentation with the general public…And the end result of these projects is to convince Americans to surrender their RIGHTS, or allow Big Government to grow bigger by overstepping THEIR constitutional authority to interfere in the “Regulation of constitutional liberties within the Bill of Right’s”
just another filthy, fckn HOAX
youse Yanks just ain’t “getting” it are youse?
AUssies are well acquainted with these BS, false flags … having been totally ‘duped’ by the totally bogus Port Arthur massacre ….. but…never again!
yr NRA is SHITTING on youse by accepting the BS media accounts of these BS “incidents” even before the cops have concluded their investigation(s) …
are youse fckn BRAIN DEAD or wtf?
or…are they over-flouridating yr drinking water?
or…are youse on too many, BS psycho drugs or WTF?
fair fckn DINKUM!
uh….here’s how TF its supposed to work…
i/the media reports that something happened….it may have been a shooting;
(as in: it is reported that….. etc)
ii/the cops investigate;
iii/after gathering and collating evidence including interviewing any eye-witnesses and DOUBLE/TRIPLE checking their stories, a case is ‘made out’ against either living or dead perps’ … or…… maybe no-one….if it was an ‘accident’….
iv/charges are either preferred or not preferred;
v/a ‘brief of evidence’ is presented to an investigating Coroner who, usually, conducts an independent inquiry as to what actually occurred or didn’t occur;
vi/if necessary, a person or persons is sent to trial/”indicted”;
if there are no living persons, a Coronial Finding is handed down;
vii/a trial occurs where witnesses are X-examined on OATH;
viii/if a defendant(s) is convicted, s/(he)/them is/are sentenced;
ix/if necessary: an appeals process occurs….
not until point n°s 8 or 9 can you categorically, unequivocally say what did or didn’t actually occur … not until ALL the evidence has been thoroughly investigated and tested…..
can you actually fckn well under-stand that or are youse too effin’ stoopid, eh?!?
Just so we are clear, the French bought a Speer Gold Dot, is that right? And by “bought a Gold Dot”, I mean, they bought a single cartridge. Because it’s no secret that the French will NEVER use it in any situation. Heck, they are still selling their WW2 weaponry NIB.
Go to google, type in French military victories, click I’m feeling lucky. Enjoy.
Post Gen3 Glocks add largely unnecessary or harmful features like the double recoil spring intended to make Glocks softer shooting, but this is not needed on the 9mm Glock 19 or Glock 17 and makes them more prone to stoppages than the single recoil spring in Gen3 and earlier generations of these Glocks if environmental contaminants like dust, sand, dirt or mud get inside the pistol. This helps explain why the US Navy SEALs adopted the Gen3 Glock 19 in 2015. The largely useless back straps weaken the frame. Need I go on? Perhaps I should mention that gen4 and Gen5 Glocks do not have full parts compatibility with Gen3 and earlier generations of Glocks for no good reason, while the new nDLC finish on the Gen5 is less durable than the Tenifer finish on earlier generations, while Gen5 pistols can be difficult to reassemble. You can find out more about the Glock 19 by reading the PDF info sheet about them on the Action page of the MIS website (www.militia.info).
I want one like the feds used on the branch davidian, anything else doesn’t kill children quite as well, I mean you just can’t use napalm and it would have took to long build an oven
I can totally see how a parent of one of the slain would tremendously hate guns, I can not blame them. They must lash out at something, the gun s what killed their child, not the nut behind it, but the gun was the instrument in their eyes. They would hate, knives, base ball bats, cars, or flying fish if it killed their child.,,,Banning or restrictions won’t work at this time in America’s history, there are to many firearms. To get what the government would need to stop gun violence the cost of prosecutions and incarnation would be prohibitive. I vaguely know how these parents feel, I’m truly sorry this happens. I have no practical solutions.
I used spell check…lol .incarnations???? Aaaeeeeiiii the curse of the Ford Escape’ with baby Groot wearing ear phones and a Sig sticker
Because of your inability to think logically, you should not be allowed to vote.
18? NO.
Even the left wing Mother Jones knows better.
Exactly ONE school shooting this year and only TWO mass shootings.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/
The Mommies are inflating the numbers by using ANY shot fired within 1000 feet of a school and don’t care if there were no injuries or deaths.
The FBI knew that this guy posted “I am going to be a school shooter” online 5 MONTHS ago.
Somebody dropped the ball big time. But hey, let’s just ban the guns and go home feeling good about it. Until the next freak (sorry, mentally disturbed promising young man) rents a truck and barrels through the school field day. Then what Shannon Watts? Ban trucks? Hey, if it works for guns….. Just ask lifetime NRA member and ARMY Marksman medal recipient Timothy McVeigh.
apparently he had a facebook comment sent to the FBI back in September where he said he wanted to be a professional school shooter
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/nikolas-cruz-reported-fbi-potential-school-shooter-september-screenshot-threat/
Maybe they took him up on it…
/conspiracy
I say keep the guns, get rid of schools.
The Sig P938 SAS is an awesome gun.