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Parkland, Florida Shooting Analyzation
Another school shooting has happened, a tragedy that could of easily been avoided, and no, not by enforcing gun control. I want to bring attention to some facts and strange behaviors that are being overlooked, hopefully to enlighten others to a better understanding of what is going on.
Beautiful SurrenderPublished 6 years ago in The SwampMusic, Movies, and Video Games
When something bad happens, we often tend to look towards the easiest target. Or as Occam’s razor says, “the simple solution is often the correct one.”
James HowellPublished 6 years ago in The SwampUnpleasant Facts
Let us begin with facts. Hard, verifiable facts. First there have not been 18 school shootings since January. Not every discharge of a firearm on a campus constitutes a "school shooting." For more details look here:
Michael BauchPublished 6 years ago in The SwampA House Divided
It is not uncommon for there to be two schools of thought in this country on many different topics. I, for one, like to keep my conservative roots alive. Although, it is not uncommon for me to make exceptions to my disagreements based on weather or not the argument is really worth wasting time talking about, I believe that the liberal democrats have made some drastic mistakes. But that is not to say that we republicans haven't made an even bigger mistake by coming back at the liberals with our old-timey values that really have no place in the world today.
Payton BeimsPublished 6 years ago in The SwampBrain Scan
I halted all medical treatments for Attention Deficit Disorder in the year 2000 when I was sixteen years old. My grades had never shown any improvement, and each drug seemed to come with a worse side effect than the last. When I was on Luvox, I couldn’t sleep or have an orgasm for weeks at a time. When I was on Desipramine, I started hating all my friends, hating my favorite foods, and hating the movies I knew I loved. Both my mother and my psychiatrist tried to convince me that this new, miserable version of myself was the real one; that I was seeing the world more clearly as it is and should continue. I was sleeping 16 hours a day. I ended up having to leave home and go live with my dad in order to escape that situation.
You Don't Need a Gun
Just when I thought people with mental health issues were receiving empathy and understanding from society, Mr. Trump declares people should be screened for a mental health illness before gaining a gun license or purchasing a gun.
Lesley Anne ArmourPublished 6 years ago in The SwampGood Guys With Guns
If I could snap my fingers and cause the hundreds of millions of firearms and other weapons in the US and world to simply vanish, I wonder how long it would take for people to manufacture new ones.
Michael ThielmannPublished 6 years ago in The SwampArming Teachers
Enacting legislation that would place stringent controls on access to assault weaponry, to say nothing of actually banning assault weapons, is plainly the kind of stupid idea that bears no further discussion, no matter how many public school students are shot up to the contrary. The problem is not that people have these weapons, but rather a string of irritatingly similar isolated incidents where no actual law was broken until .223 millimeter rounds began ripping through (stupidly) unarmed flesh.
Van WalkerPublished 6 years ago in The SwampMountain Mama Your Children Are Crying
“Almost Heaven, West Virginia…” those words incite a sense of pride in me. The pride that comes with waking up in Morgantown on the dawn of a brisk fall Saturday. The pride that comes with sitting at my great-grandmother’s sick bed and listening to her talk about growing up in a coal camp. It’s watching We Are Marshall on the big screen with my mother, who I was lucky enough to watch graduate with her Master’s Degree in special education from that school. It’s my father recounting stories of his grandfather who died in a coal mining accident, saving two others and risking his life. It’s the way my grandmother pronounces wash with an "r" between the "a" and the "s."
Courtney LynnPublished 6 years ago in The SwampBuying into an Agenda
Mr. Marco Rubio, you were asked by a seventeen year old mass shooting survivor if you would accept any money from the NRA after this. The only answer you could give is that “people buy into my agenda.” You completely deflected the question, which tells me your answer is no. You and your politician friends are the lowest life form on earth. You are beneath scum. Basically, what you told this young man is that the bastards at the NRA support you, they line your pockets with cash, and you continue to do their bidding. This is not an acceptable answer.
James HowellPublished 6 years ago in The SwampOnly You Can Prevent the Trump Man
I wish I could go back to a few weeks before the James Comey memo about the other pointless emails that came out weeks before the 2016 election. I'd like to think that I could just sit back today and still revolve around my liberal bubble of feeling safe and secure. Safe knowing that despite a republican congress, we still had the first Black president to have the final say over policies and legislation. It was a good run while we had him. However, now we are getting a taste of what it's like to not have that safe feeling anymore. I hate saying it but I am in a sensical way glad Trump won. Am I happy and proud of my president? HELL NO. But now that he's president and the way he's performing in office has set an example the country has been watching. He is a couch potato, who spends most of his time watching TV, playing golf and uses the US taxpayers as his personal ATM machine.
The Wheels of Injustice
As the wheels of justice grind to a halt by the powers that be, our society is fast approaching a breaking point. A breaking point from which there is really no return. More children with guns and the willingness to carry out horrific acts of violence have put our way of life in grave jeopardy. Serious questions have to be asked, and yet no one has been asking the right ones. What we should be asking is what has happened to a society which has gone from an era of moralistic virtues where our youth who played with toy guns but respected the danger that real guns posed, to today where our youth are getting hold of semi- and automatic weapons which have no place being available to adults let alone our youth.
Dr. WilliamsPublished 6 years ago in The Swamp