This makes the Parkland mass shooting different from others and is why it may effect change on guns

[usmbguest5318]

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 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.

I feel confident that young people like the MSD students are well aware that the GOP is the party that's in power and that it and its Congressional adherents -- variously by outright intransigence and/or repeated "poison pill" procedural tactics/maneuvers -- have constantly and durably confounded efforts to see passed the various legislation and regulation that have been over the past decade been suggested.

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.

 

[Ricky LIbtardo]

These snowflakes are going to get an education in some things they didn't study in high school.

The Constitution and the Supreme Court.

 

[sartre play]

TO much money makes to much influence, like to see some open minded people run for government, like to see some people who can relate to the average working person run for government. we need people who are not pushing a paid for agenda. there just has to be a more level headed approach to Guns. we don't need more laws, we need ones that work.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

So does this mean that the Democrats have stopped loathing the middle class?

 

[DJT for Life]

The only thing different is that the Dems were organized and waiting
for something like this to happen. We'll have the meetings and the demonstrations and then it will eventually go away. Even Soros and his money
will realize that they will be getting nowhere.

The best thing that will come out of this is States and the Fed govt will have
to ante up more money for school security. I'm not talking just guards, but fencing with only one accessible gate once school starts and that puts the visitor in the School Office before they can go anywhere else.

That and much tougher school discipline. You put the adults back in charge
rather than the kids.

 

[usmbguest5318]

TO much money makes to much influence, like to see some open minded people run for government, like to see some people who can relate to the average working person run for government. we need people who are not pushing a paid for agenda. there just has to be a more level headed approach to Guns. we don't need more laws, we need ones that work.

we need people who are not pushing a paid for agenda.

Insofar as there is money funding any and all political agendas, one will not find individuals who advance and advocate for agendas that are not "paid for" (funded by someone).