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twinjinn · 1 year

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February 14th is tomorrow.

It’s been on my mind all week. Flashbacks of where I was when I heard the sirens and when I heard of what was happening. I hope they find peace.

#stoneman douglas #parkland #school shooting

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joeisamess · 2 years

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6/6/22 Journal: It's Past Time to Be Proactive About the Gun Problem

6/6/22 Journal: It’s Past Time to Be Proactive About the Gun Problem

I’ve decided to become proactive about gun rights. It happened right after Uvalde. Why now? Why not after Columbine? Why not after Sandy Hook? Why not after Pulse Nightclub or Parkland or Las Vegas? I don’t know. Maybe it’s finally hit me that the idiots we depend on to fix problems are incapable of doing so. Maybe it’s because I was always telling myself these were ‘one-time tragic events’. Or…

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#Demonstrations #gun license #gun rights #mass shootings #Parkland #Pulse #Sandy Hook #Stoneman Douglas #Uvalde

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socialjusticeinamerica · 6 months

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Filthy MAGA animal.

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#gop #republican hypocrisy #gun control #republican party #gun violence #marjory stoneman douglas high school #Republican domestic terrorist #MAGA cult #2nd amendment douche bag #the nra is a terrorist organization #fuck the nra

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 2 years

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"The soul is a fiction of mankind, because mankind hates the idea of death. It wants to think that something goes on after, I don't think that it does, and I don't think we have souls. I think death is the end. A lot of people can't bear that idea, but I find it a little restful, really."

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#Marjory Stoneman Douglas #myth of the soul #soul #myth of an afterlife #afterlife #religious arrogance #religion #religion is a mental illness

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whenweallvote · 3 months

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Today marks six years since the tragic mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

As we honor the 17 Parkland victims and send love to their families today, we also mourn for all lives lost and forever changed by gun violence since — including everyone impacted by the shooting at the SuperBowl Parade JUST a few hours ago.

Don't let ANYONE tell you there's nothing to be done about gun violence. It’s up to the politicians WE elect to propose and enact critical gun safety measures, and other bills to protect our children and communities.

Our Vote is Our Voice. Make sure you, your friends, and your family members are all registered to vote today at weall.vote/register.

#gun violence #msdstrong #marjory stoneman douglas #msd high school #parkland florida #vote #register to vote #mass shooting #superbowl parade

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thequeenofsastiel · 1 year

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Please reblog I'm very curious

#politics #my polls #gun violence #the united states #Nashville #sandy hook #uvalde #Virginia tech #marjory stoneman douglas high school #Santa fe high #umpqua #red lake senior #oitos #west nickel mines

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a bill on Friday allowing juries to recommend the death penalty in capital cases on an 8-4 vote, a move spurred by the less-than-unanimous vote that led to the Parkland school shooter being sentenced to life in prison.

The state's Republican-led House of Representatives approved the measure with an 80-30 vote on Thursday, following the Republican-controlled state Senate's approval in March.

If the Republican Governor signs the bill into law, Florida prosecutors trying capital felony cases would need to convince only two-thirds of the 12-member jury that someone who is convicted deserves the death penalty, rather than a unanimous decision by a jury.

The change only affects the penalty phase of capital trials. It would have no effect on the requirement for a jury's unanimous vote to convict a defendant.

DeSantis has pushed for the legislation since October when he said he was "very disappointed" after a jury could not come to a unanimous decision on giving a death sentence to Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018.

Three jurors voted to spare Cruz, and by default his sentence was life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

If the bill becomes law, Florida would join Alabama as the only states where a unanimous jury decision is not required, the center noted.

Tony Montalto, whose daughter Gina was killed in the Parkland shooting, has been pushing for Florida lawmakers to change the jury requirement.

"Because of the jury's incorrect decision ... the victims, my beautiful daughter, her 13 classmates and her three teachers did not get the justice that they deserve," Montalto said during an interview on WPLG, an ABC affiliate in South Florida, in March.

DeSantis, widely thought to be weighing a 2024 presidential campaign, has accelerated efforts to build his national profile, especially around crime and justice issues. In February, he traveled to New York, Chicago and Philadelphia to speak to law enforcement groups on criminal justice matters.

Legal and ethical questions have swirled around capital punishment in the United States in recent years as states have found it difficult to procure drugs to carry out the death penalty through lethal injections. Several executions have been botched in recent years.

In 2017, Florida passed a law that required death penalties to be imposed only after a unanimous recommendation by a jury.

The law came after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an earlier state law, saying it unconstitutionally let judges determine the facts that would lead to a death sentence, rather than juries.

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actual-sleeping-beauty · 1 year

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i would love to never see that gifset of carlos with the guns again. sorry like. perhaps i am simply too traumatized by the gun violence that has haunted my literal entire existence on this earth but. no.

#also i'm not kidding #i am younger than columbine #i was in the fifth grade when twenty elementary schoolers were killed at sandy hook #when i was a sophomore in high school two kids were killed by a fifteen year old in marshall county kentucky #the shooter called his mom and said there was a shooting and he was scared #he murdered his classmates with a poorly stored gun he brought from home #a month later 17 kids were murdered at marjory stoneman douglas high school #the shooter pulled a fire alarm #a couple months later an unscheduled fire alarm went off at my school #all of us sat there on the third floor of a possibly on fire building for a full forty seconds before evacuating #eventually the front office came over the intercom to tell us to evacuate #so forgive me for not thinking that carlos shooting a guy is cool or hot #tw gun violence #tw school shooting #just to be safe #y'all feel free to interact with this post but i'm turning reblogs off because i am not trying to start shit

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jazsparklez · 10 months

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Hey everyone, I’ve been away from tumblr for a really long time and have decided I will not be posting anything on here very often however I will still be active and replying to any messages you would like to send me :) I’m a member of the TCC and would be super happy to talk about it with anybody who is also interested <3

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."

[Clyde Butcher Photography]

#Pine Flats #the Everglades #Marjory Stoneman Douglas #Clyde Butcher Photography

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brockachu · 2 years

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the sedins and luongo are being inducted into the hhof on their first year of eligibility. first ballot. i’m in tears i’m not kidding. i’ve been down fucking Bad with covid for the past 4 days and today on the first day i can fucking breathe and stay conscious for more than 4 hours at a time the sedins and lu are going into the hhof i’m laughing and crying in my lil armchair i’m So Happy

#i just. i’m alive and i’ve been writing and i’ve been thinking about these fucking dudes for weeks #i’m just like really fucking happy to be alive and enjoying it like idk how to say this without sounding fucking ridiculous #i have a fucking chronic cough i was so worried this would make it flare up or actually make it worse #i’ve been sick in bed filled with dread and catastrophizing for four fucking days #my dog has been crying outside my door for three days bc i can’t let him sleep in here in case he carries it to my housemates #i couldn’t listen to music for the past 3 days bc the migraines got so bad and i basically live with music on usually #at its worst with my cough i literally can’t laugh without hyperventilating. it’s so depressing.#i just like 2 months ago finally shook of a really bad depressive episode paired with the Worst seasonal depression in years #i have survived this past 9mos by transmuting my feelings through hockey #the sedins & lu in hhof is so gratifying. so important. one day maybe i’ll have the words for it in poem #god do i need to write a sedins poem & a lu poem. they’re just. so important. so good.#did y’all know lu was the only nhler to speak in support of the marjorie stoneman douglas kids? yeah #i just told someone on twitter about the sedins & bc children’s hospital #i’m fucking happily sobbing listening to muna & bad bunny & rina sawayama #i am So Grateful to be alive and mostly healthy and for my brain to not be fighting me as much and god yeah #i’m not even mad i missed pride this weekend! 😂 the sun is shining and so is motherfucking aily #aily talks #canucks lb

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noturmuse · 1 year

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Last night I saw a video of “how to survive an active shooter” and it was so terrifying, I was sobbing the entire time. That video says so much about this country. I mean the fact they even had to make it! Instead of outlawing assault rifles (I wish guns didn’t exist at all), they give the public a video. We shouldn’t have to know what to do during a lockdown since the age of 5, we shouldn’t have to survive an active shooter at our malls, our schools, our hospitals, our churches…it’s absolutely insane and the fact that every day there is another shooting in this country makes me sick to my stomach

#outlaw guns for the love of god #why do we need them today???#I’m so angry and in shock every time I see another shooting has happened #and nothing has changed!!#I remember sandy hook and margery stoneman douglas #I remember one Christmas I was at the mall and ppl thought there was an active shooter and everyone freaked #it was a false alarm but I thought I would die that day #children as young as 3 do lockdown drills here #I’m so sick of this #thoughts

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kp777 · 1 year

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By Mychael Schnell

The Hill

May 8, 2023

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) asked Monday that a congressional field hearing focused on red flag laws be held in Parkland, Fla., where such provisions were enacted in 2018 after the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The request — made to House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — came days after a gunman fatally shot eight people at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas.

“Guns have become the #1 killer of children. Parents worry as they send their kids to school, to the mall, or the movies. It’s a fear all parents live with. Public places once considered safe are now targets for gun violence,” Moskowitz, a member of the Oversight Committee, wrote in a letter to Comer and Jordan.

“I request that the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and House Judiciary Committee hold a field hearing in Parkland, Florida, to learn about the success of ‘red flag laws,’” he added.

In March 2018, the Florida legislature passed and then-Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a gun control bill into law that, among other provisions, instituted so-called “red flag laws,” which authorized law enforcement officers to request a “risk protection order.” The order would “prevent persons who are at high risk of harming themselves or others from accessing firearms or ammunition.”

The law also raised the minimum age to buy a firearm from 18 to 21, imposed a three-day waiting period for most long gun purchases, allowed certain trained school employees to have concealed handguns on them while on school campuses, and established new programs focused on mental health for schools.

The GOP-led Florida legislature approved the measure less than two months after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in which 17 students and staff members were killed. Moskowitz — who is an alum of the school — was serving in the Florida state legislature when the gun control bill passed.

The Republican legislators and governor backed the measure despite strong opposition from the National Rifle Association.