Authorities also said students and teachers should remain barricaded in the school until they could be reached by police Dispatch at the Broward Sheriff’s Office confirmed the school was on lockdown and police were on location. According to WSVN, the Margate Fire Rescue team described the scene as a mass casualty incident, which reportedly means at least 20 people were injured.
Berserker wrote: » Jesus wept. It's a massive country, not some dot like Ireland that you can drive round in a few hours. You could spend the rest of your life in the USA and never see a gun.
pilly wrote: » And what do these lovely people say when children are killed because of them defending their right to bear arms? Are the children just an acceptable sacrifice?
pilly wrote: » Hang on one second, you were the one talking about people you met on the "range" for a start, why didn't you answer that question for starters?
BillyBobBS wrote: » Here's a great idea America, vote in a democrat who will change all of the gun laws like say i dunno Obama or Clinton. Oh wait a minut....
Panjandrums wrote: » It's easy to attack gun ownership when you have never experienced it. Let's ban people cycling on the roads because people are dying from bicycles, at the end of the day cycling and guns are used for leisure and sport and 1 person out of 320 million shouldn't stop that.
valoren wrote: » I think the problem is never going to go away and thus policy needs to change from the deluded idea that this can be prevented and must focus completely on containment i.e. reducing the potential number of fatalities.
141_Oscar_Mike wrote: » Most common question i'm seeing on Twitter this morning "What did Obama do in 8 years?" Trumpies are just on another level of thick.
Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: » Here's the suspecthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/nick-cruz-parkland-florida-shooting-stoneman-douglas-high-school
yermandan wrote: » “Most kids ignored him at school. They pushed him off to the side as if he was garbage.” “He was definitely not accepted at our school socially. People saw him as someone who was different than the normal people at our school,” ‘’Douglas High has a place students call “the Emo Gazebo,” he said. “That’s where all the kids that are considered weird or not accepted sat. Kids at the Emo Gazebo didn’t even accept him there. He was just an outcast...He didn’t have any friends.” “I could tell he tried to be social at times but there was something off about him,” she said. “I never really saw him with many people. Girls thought he was creepy and weird. He was pretty pale with red hair. I didn’t talk to him that much, but from what I could tell he wasn’t a nice kid. He wore a lot of black and was always alone’’
BorneTobyWilde wrote: » No way to stop it, probably measures that could be taken to offer some warning to schools though. Someone saw him before he entered grounds of school, before he was even in the area. Someone saw him on grounds, someone saw him enter school,someone saw him in the school.
Berserker wrote: » It's not just "trumphies". Lots of Americans ask the same question. I know that Obama is a much loved character in this part of the world but plenty of people in the USA think that he was a massive disappointment. He talked the talk and a lot of that talk was of a socialist nature, which just doesn't wash with a lot of folk in the USA. He's part of the reason why Trump is in power now!
The Backwards Man wrote: » Someone sold him a semi automatic rifle.
everlast75 wrote: » big picture
ThinkProgress wrote: » Yep, he was a disappointment overall... His main legacy will be "the first ever black US president" - but unfortunately not much more than that! Just like Hilary would very likely have gone down in history, as the "first ever female US president" and not much more either! Our own Leo is playing out a similar role in this country... This is what you get, when you hire unexceptional candidates into roles, for the wrong reasons... disappointment... not really surprising tbh.
FatherTed wrote: » That's your opinion. Mine is different. I think he was a great president and accomplished a lot considering what he had to put up with the Republicans in congress. Day 1 of Obama's presidency Mitch McConnell actually said their sole purpose was to make him fail and be a one term president. It didn't matter that the US economy crashed a few months before such was their hate for him. Anyways he was a lot better than the stooge before him and the treasonous racist we have now.
