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CNN Townhall with Parkland Students, Rubio, NRA and others

Police pensions are ludicrous. Nothing even remotely compares to them, certainly no qualified plans. Police and municipalities in general don't have to adhere to qualification rules. Some members, like fire fighters, have pension provisions that are very good, but nothing compares to cops' plans. Addressing how overly generous these plans are is a 3rd rail that will get you branded as not supporting the police if the subject is ever broached.
 
Police and fire pensions are not like many other public sector plans in that they are paid after twenty years rather than longer periods of employment. Further, people often start working in PDs and FDs at younger ages than they do in office jobs. Police and fire pensions are often paid starting at age 50 or younger.

In a lot of departments, you get paid a percentage of your total earnings not just salary. There are often massive amounts of overtime included.

Cops and members of the FD have incredibly important and tough jobs, but their pensions are huge and often paid for decades.
 
Ts & Ps locked, loaded, ready for action.
 
Have we heard this before? Kid shoots up a school with guns taken from a legal "responsible gun owner."

http://www.startribune.com/the-latest-officials-some-injured-in-texas-school-shooting/483040301/

2:20 p.m.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the school shooting suspect used a shotgun and .38-revolver he obtained from his father.
At a news conference on Friday, Abbott said both weapons were owned legally by the suspect's father. But it's not clear whether the father knew his son had taken them.
 
Have we heard this before? Kid shoots up a school with guns taken from a legal "responsible gun owner."

http://www.startribune.com/the-latest-officials-some-injured-in-texas-school-shooting/483040301/

2:20 p.m.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the school shooting suspect used a shotgun and .38-revolver he obtained from his father.
At a news conference on Friday, Abbott said both weapons were owned legally by the suspect's father. But it's not clear whether the father knew his son had taken them.

Well, the father did something wrong. If we jail him, the victims come back to life.
 
According to the organizers of the Families vs. Assault Rifles PAC, the goal behind putting up money against candidates who receive funding from the NRA is to elect candidates to Congress who endorse a bill to ban assault weapons.

"The ultimate goal is to amend the National Firearms Act of 1934 by adding just a paragraph or two or whatever it takes to ban assault weapons and also ban the more dangerous accessories of assault weapons, such as high capacity magazines and bump stocks," said Jeff Kasky, the father of two Parkland students who survived the massacre and who is part of the group behind the PAC. "But we know to get to that very simple goal, we have to take the NRA out of our politics."


"Most Americans agree that there needs to be some common-sense gun reform. Why don't we have it?" Kasky said. "The party in power is being controlled by the NRA."
The PAC was registered earlier this month, and without yet engaging in a publicity effort, Kasky said, it is already receiving thousands of inquiries from people who want to chip in or help the cause.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/30/politics/parkland-parents-super-pac/index.html
 
Parkland students to make bus tour to register voters

The March For Our Lives organizers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland are taking their advocacy on the road this summer in two tours to register young voters and promote gun law changes.

The two-month tours announced Monday morning at the Parkland Amphitheater with about two dozen students in attendance will be called "March for Our Lives: Road to Change."

The tour will launch June 15 in Chicago.
 
Home of teen activist David Hogg pranked with false SWAT call

PARKLAND, FLA. (WSVN) - Members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office SWAT team responded to the home of activist David Hogg after someone made a prank hostage call.

According to BSO, deputies received a call at around 8:30 a.m., saying someone broke into Hogg’s home with an AR-15 rifle and was holding the family hostage.

Deputies determined that no one was home at the time and that the call was unfounded.
 
The person stupid enough to do that is stupid enough to be caught, fined and hopefully put in jail.
 

Well, DeVos did say at her confirmation hearings last year that guns were needed in schools to protect students from Grizzly Bears, so maybe that's what she'll have the federal school safety commission investigate. There's just been too many grizzly attacks on helpless students over the past few years, so - moar guns!
 
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