usmbguest5318
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Wel, one that that makes it very different from many places in which mass shootings happen is this: its victims come from relatively affluent families. Parkland is a very solidly upper middle class town.
The combination of the above noted factors may mark the MSD shooting as the turning point in the movement to effect materially effective legislation and policies, at state and federal levels, that produces admirable results in the fray to curtail gun violence in general and mass shootings in particular.
- The median income in the ~Parkland, FL (pop. ~30K) was in 2010 ~$277K.
- Stoneman Douglas (MSD) is good school that does a decent job of educating its students. Just listening to the aplomb with which kids from MSD discuss the shooting and express themselves, one sees immediately that they are more articulately literate than is the POTUS to whom they direct their pleas.
- Some share of the MSD kids, along with myriad perspicacious high school seniors like them, will be able to vote this fall, and one can be sure that they are not going to eschew the polls as they have in years past.
- I don't know how deeply they'll research the matter of gun violence. I do know that young people really, really don't at all like Donald Trump.
The combination of the above noted factors may mark the MSD shooting as the turning point in the movement to effect materially effective legislation and policies, at state and federal levels, that produces admirable results in the fray to curtail gun violence in general and mass shootings in particular.