CNN Townhall with Parkland Students, Rubio, NRA and others

[RJKarl]

This is surprising, how?

Devos destroyed public schools in MI.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Assuming this is sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Ugh.

 

[WakeandBake]

Freedom is so freeing!

 

[forensicdeac]

Assuming this is sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Ugh.

not that it matters, but I went to high school with that concerned mother. Never expected to see her on a Wake message board 20 years later.

 

[dot com]

Georgy Porgy, pudding pie, to hide from guns we make a rhyme

 

[Deacon923]

not that it matters, but I went to high school with that concerned mother. Never expected to see her on a Wake message board 20 years later.

not only Wake message board, it's a front page item on CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/health/lockdown-poem-kindergarten-school-trnd/index.html

 

[PhDeac]

[h=1]Adam Putnam’s office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn’t log in[/h] A state investigation found that the lapse covered a period that included the biggest spike in permit applications in Florida history.
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-pol...-checks-for-a-year-because-it-couldnt-log-in/

For more than a year, the state of Florida failed to conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits, potentially allowing drug addicts or people with a mental illness to carry firearms in public.
A previously unreported Office of Inspector General investigation found that in February 2016 the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services stopped using a FBI crime database called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that ensures applicants who want to carry a gun do not have a disqualifying history in other states.
The employee in charge of the background checks could not log into the system, the investigator learned. The problem went unresolved until discovered by another worker in March 2017 — meaning that for more than a year applications got approved without the required background check.

Putnam's ad for governor touts expanding concealed carry as one of his accomplishments.

 

[avalon]

[h=1]Adam Putnam’s office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn’t log in[/h] A state investigation found that the lapse covered a period that included the biggest spike in permit applications in Florida history.
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-pol...-checks-for-a-year-because-it-couldnt-log-in/



Putnam's ad for governor touts expanding concealed carry as one of his accomplishments.

holy shit.

How could one employee basically stop background checks for the entire state? That seems...... important. Did she never go on vacation?

In the year since, there were fewer applications, about 200,000, but 2,000 more denials than the previous year when the federal background check system wasn't accessed.

Fewer applications but 2,000 more denials with the full background check in place.

Yet on Friday, Wilde told the Times she had been working in the mailroom when she was given oversight of the database in 2013.

"I didn't understand why I was put in charge of it."

wtf

 

[avalon]

And Republicans want to pass concealed carry reciprocity that would allow anyone with a concealed carry permit from any state to be able to carry in every state.

 

[PhDeac]

Yet again, Republicans want to cater to the lowest common denominator. Lowest standards wins.

It could crush Putnam's campaign if any of the people who get permits approved during that period were found guilty of any crimes whether they would have gotten one otherwise or not.

 

[Highland Deac]

Yet again, Republicans want to cater to the lowest common denominator. Lowest standards wins.

It could crush Putnam's campaign if any of the people who get permits approved during that period were found guilty of any crimes whether they would have gotten one otherwise or not.

One would hope that Florida Democrats would research and see if that happened, and if so, make sure that it was widely publicized in the fall. We'll see if they actually think of that, or follow their all-too-frequent recent pattern of failing to do what they need to do to actually win.

 

[WFFaithful]

Anyone hear how the nationwide right to bear arms marches went?

 

[avalon]

The Utah Gun Exchange is following the Parkland students around the country to combat their call for more gun laws

This is normal.

Melchior believes his encounters with police in New York and Chicago have been a violation of his civil rights.

“The hostile environment created toward gun advocates in the Northeast is not unlike the hostile environments a black man would have experienced in the South hundreds of years ago,” he said Tuesday.

“It was frustrating because there were a lot of kids, a lot of teenagers. Then there were all of these adult men who had guns. They had an armored vehicle with a gun mounted on it,” Love said. “We were protesting not being able to feel safe in school because of guns. It felt insensitive.”
...

“If they think the best thing to do for their brand and image is to follow a group of teenagers whose schools were shot up,” Love said, “then that’s their decision.”

 

[ConnorEl]

‘merica, fuck yea.




Jesus.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

those kids are going to have to toughen up because the Right doesn't care about anyone but themselves and will fight to oppress using every tool in their asenal

 

[avalon]

March For Our Lives has raised millions and has a D.C. lobbyist. Here’s what’s next.

Two busloads of March for Our Lives activists have been crisscrossing America, sowing the seeds of discontent over current gun laws, and they’re starting to sprout: Scores of loosely affiliated groups that share a name and a political agenda with March for Our Lives have popped up across the nation, even in such scarlet red-states as Arizona.

In Florida and on the road, the students have made one of their central missions encouraging young people to register to vote. In Florida at least, the numbers are encouraging. This past week, an analysis by TargetSmart, a data firm that works on behalf of Democrats, found that the share of newly registered Florida voters between the ages of 18-29 had increased by eight percentage points in the two and a half months after the shooting.

The political acumen of the Parkland students has left even some of their allies agape. “As remarkable as we acknowledge their leadership has been, we’re still not giving them enough credit,” U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, told the Miami Herald.

Their latest tee shirt design has a QR code that can be scanned and takes you to the voter registration section of their website.

 

[WakeandBake]

The Utah Gun Exchange is following the Parkland students around the country to combat their call for more gun laws

This is normal.

look at those douchebags with their toy truck lol. go buy a razor, tool

 

[DeaconSig]

Is Elkman the one with the beard?

 

[ImTheCaptain]

nah, he's the one that looks like he's got a butt plug stuck up his ass

 

[TBDeac]

Is Elkman the one with the beard?

You mean the Garibaldi? If you would characterize that facial hair as just "a beard", clearly you need to educate yourself before you can have a valid opinion on this topic.