[17 Dead] Numerous Fatalities at Douglas High School, Parkland, FL

[AuH20]

Nugent just posted this.

 

[AuH20]

My favorite link to taunt the anti-gunners. Rhetorical gold.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/micha...re-deadly-than-assault-weapons/article/706722

 

[AZJoe]

[video=youtube;STo3hwN--5E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=215&v=STo3hwN--5E[/video]

 

[Jan2017]

There is no such thing as a "private" dealer, legally anyway.

This is just a way to get everybody into the NICS database.

They are looking to bring private sales from a collection between two individuals, under government control.

I say - as a Freedom of Information Act request - that any interested party/media journalists get the NCIS Transaction Number -
and any Florida transaction number if that is where the sale originated or was transferred under -
it might be a transaction public record available, at least to a party with an interest, as in say - a lawsuit.

 

[dannno]

https://www.independent.com/news/2018/apr/04/raising-first-person-shooter/

Raising a First-Person Shooter
‘Fortnite’ Video Game Blowing Holes in My Anti-Gun Policy


Wednesday, April 4, 2018
by STARSHINE ROSHELL


The hypocrisy of my life is corroding my insides, and confession is the only cure. Outwardly — in dinner conversations, on social media, at girls’ nights — I go all frothy-mouthed about gun control, all soapbox-y on the nefarious NRA, all high-horsey over our nation’s sick obsession with firearms.


But in a dimly lit corner of my home, probably even as you read this, my sweet 12-year-old son who still orders off the kids’ menu is entertaining himself by assassinating animated strangers with a digital assault rifle — the very weapon now dominating public debate.


He’s playing Fortnite, the viral video game that 45+ million people are currently obsessed with. It’s a Hunger Games–style scenario: You drop into a dystopian landscape with 99 other players and try to be the last player alive at the end. An AR, a shotgun, and a sniper rifle help you accomplish this goal.


I’ve never allowed shooting games in my house before. “It’s not a shooting game,” my son insists. “It’s a survival game.” Well … you survive by shooting people.


So why now? Why suddenly relax my strict anti-violence entertainment standards? Mostly because this game is collaborative and he can play in real time with his equally obsessed and beloved brother, who’s at college 2,000 miles away. Apparently, the family that kills together chills together. When I ask said older brother why we should allow his baby bro to execute people on our flat screen when our nation is suffering so acutely from too-many-damned-people-shooting-each-other, he assures me, “It’s not one of those games where the object is to mow down as many people as you can indiscriminately.” I’m supposed to feel relief. “I mean, you let him watch Looney Tunes when he was 5, where cartoon characters were beating the crap out of each other.” Well, yeah, but … come on, that’s … All right; point taken.


Recent studies find no links between violent video games and violent real-life behavior. But in a country where nearly 100 people are shot to death daily, why in Glock’s name would we give children rifles as toys? Why teach them via repetitive motion as their brains are quite literally developing that snuffing out other humans is satisfying — and bloodless? (Did I mention that you get more points in this game for a head shot than a body shot? And you can kill foes with your ax if you’d rather not waste bullets.)


I tell my kid to go outside and play with real friends. He visits a buddy’s house — where they shoot BB guns in the backyard before retiring indoors. To play Fortnite. I urge him to play a nice, old-fashioned board game instead. He and his snowflake Dad opt for Risk: “I’m attacking with cavalry. You’re all gonna die.” What is it with dudes and weapons of war?


I struggle to know whether the better parent defies the mob mentality and trusts her own pacifist instincts — or keeps her paranoia in check and instead trusts the instincts of her otherwise sage and moderately kind children. I struggle to know whether I truly fear for my son’s emotional development — or am just loath to watch my youngest slip out of innocent childhood and into toughened adolescence. (Fortnite is rated T for teen; my boy isn’t a teen. Goddamn it, not yet.)


I watch him play the game. I explain that taking things from abandoned houses — even to use as shields from flying bullets — is looting, and that looting is stealing. I ask how he could possibly carry all the tools he’s stealing in that tiny backpack. I inform him that “fortnight” means two weeks’ time. Turns out I’m not especially fun to have around when you’re playing a survival video game.


When he aims and fires at another player, who vanishes neatly from the screen, I ask how it feels. “I know he’s not actually dead. He’s going back to the beginning, and he’ll play again,” my son says. But he volunteers that he doesn’t like the way it sounds when he hears himself say, “I killed that guy.” You and me both, kid.


You and me both.

 

[Swordsmyth]

https://www.independent.com/news/2018/apr/04/raising-first-person-shooter/

Raising a First-Person Shooter
‘Fortnite’ Video Game Blowing Holes in My Anti-Gun Policy


Wednesday, April 4, 2018
by STARSHINE ROSHELL


The hypocrisy of my life is corroding my insides, and confession is the only cure. Outwardly — in dinner conversations, on social media, at girls’ nights — I go all frothy-mouthed about gun control, all soapbox-y on the nefarious NRA, all high-horsey over our nation’s sick obsession with firearms.


But in a dimly lit corner of my home, probably even as you read this, my sweet 12-year-old son who still orders off the kids’ menu is entertaining himself by assassinating animated strangers with a digital assault rifle — the very weapon now dominating public debate.


He’s playing Fortnite, the viral video game that 45+ million people are currently obsessed with. It’s a Hunger Games–style scenario: You drop into a dystopian landscape with 99 other players and try to be the last player alive at the end. An AR, a shotgun, and a sniper rifle help you accomplish this goal.


I’ve never allowed shooting games in my house before. “It’s not a shooting game,” my son insists. “It’s a survival game.” Well … you survive by shooting people.


So why now? Why suddenly relax my strict anti-violence entertainment standards? Mostly because this game is collaborative and he can play in real time with his equally obsessed and beloved brother, who’s at college 2,000 miles away. Apparently, the family that kills together chills together. When I ask said older brother why we should allow his baby bro to execute people on our flat screen when our nation is suffering so acutely from too-many-damned-people-shooting-each-other, he assures me, “It’s not one of those games where the object is to mow down as many people as you can indiscriminately.” I’m supposed to feel relief. “I mean, you let him watch Looney Tunes when he was 5, where cartoon characters were beating the crap out of each other.” Well, yeah, but … come on, that’s … All right; point taken.


Recent studies find no links between violent video games and violent real-life behavior. But in a country where nearly 100 people are shot to death daily, why in Glock’s name would we give children rifles as toys? Why teach them via repetitive motion as their brains are quite literally developing that snuffing out other humans is satisfying — and bloodless? (Did I mention that you get more points in this game for a head shot than a body shot? And you can kill foes with your ax if you’d rather not waste bullets.)


I tell my kid to go outside and play with real friends. He visits a buddy’s house — where they shoot BB guns in the backyard before retiring indoors. To play Fortnite. I urge him to play a nice, old-fashioned board game instead. He and his snowflake Dad opt for Risk: “I’m attacking with cavalry. You’re all gonna die.” What is it with dudes and weapons of war?


I struggle to know whether the better parent defies the mob mentality and trusts her own pacifist instincts — or keeps her paranoia in check and instead trusts the instincts of her otherwise sage and moderately kind children. I struggle to know whether I truly fear for my son’s emotional development — or am just loath to watch my youngest slip out of innocent childhood and into toughened adolescence. (Fortnite is rated T for teen; my boy isn’t a teen. Goddamn it, not yet.)


I watch him play the game. I explain that taking things from abandoned houses — even to use as shields from flying bullets — is looting, and that looting is stealing. I ask how he could possibly carry all the tools he’s stealing in that tiny backpack. I inform him that “fortnight” means two weeks’ time. Turns out I’m not especially fun to have around when you’re playing a survival video game.


When he aims and fires at another player, who vanishes neatly from the screen, I ask how it feels. “I know he’s not actually dead. He’s going back to the beginning, and he’ll play again,” my son says. But he volunteers that he doesn’t like the way it sounds when he hears himself say, “I killed that guy.” You and me both, kid.


You and me both.

Struggling for dominance is fun, video games allow us to do so without hurting anyone, they also allow us to release built up aggression and anger/frustration harmlessly, they might just save lives.

 

[Zippyjuan]

45+ million people are currently obsessed with

Of that 45 million playing, how many actually shot somebody in real life (besides veterans)?

Recent studies find no links between violent video games and violent real-life behavior.

 

[Swordsmyth]

[h=1]Marjory Stoneman Douglas teacher charged after leaving gun in public restroom[/h]https://www.yahoo.com/gma/marjory-stoneman-douglas-teacher-charged-leaving-gun-public-082807758--abc-news-topstories.html




I'm sure this wasn't staged.

 

[PRB]

Nowhere in the video are they claiming the drills were from schools in Florida

wrong

1. video title says "florida H S"
2. footer of the video says "parkland"

 

[Danke]

wrong

1. video title says "florida H S"
2. footer of the video says "parkland"

Heee's back

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Heee's back

I always thought Little Red Stick was the best troll here. Sure, Chief Big Red Stick gets all the attention, but Little Red was actually more innovative, imaginative, and much sharper. He took the template and really made it his own by playing extreme libertarian devil's advocate.

Little Red to Big Chief is like Gehrig to Ruth. Or Pippin to Jordan. Too bad he hardly posts now. I think I miss my old nemesis.

 

[dannno]

Little Red to Big Chief is like Gehrig to Ruth. Or Pippin to Jordan.

Or Stockton to Malone

 

[AZJoe]

 

[Valli6]

LIVE STREAM: Kyle Kashuv countering walk-out - 'Walk UP - not out"

LIVE STREAM: Kyle Kashuv & supporters of 2nd amendment

"prominent speakers, one every 15 minutes, go live on Facebook at 10:00 AM-11:00 AM on Friday, to discuss ways to save lives without infringing on 2A and the importance of mental health and not bullying. "

Walk UP - not out

Or watch HERE - https://www.pscp.tv/w/1djxXdngoDVxZ

List of some speakers:
[MENTION=23166]Kurt[/MENTION]Schlichter [MENTION=11927]scar[/MENTION]amucci [MENTION=12764]AndrewP[/MENTION]ollackFL
Robert B. Charles
@WalshFreedom
Alan Gottlieb
@SebGorka [MENTION=34561]KEL[/MENTION]liwardaz
Dave Hardy (lawyer who SCOTUS has cited) [MENTION=68777]real[/MENTION]DickHeller
@AWRHawkins
@heytana

 

[Valli6]

Deputies' Union has scheduled a no-confidence vote for Sheriff Scott Israel

The Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association is their union.

Broward County Deputies Schedule No-Confidence Vote For Sheriff Scott Israel
Christian Datoc
04/20/2018

The Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association has scheduled a no-confidence vote for Sheriff Scott Israel over his behavior during the lead-up to and aftermath of the Parkland school shooting, union president Deputy Jeff Bell announced Friday.

The union is accusing Israel of “many instances of suspected malfeasance, misfeasance, failure to maintain fiduciary responsibility by the sheriff, failure to properly investigate possible criminal conduct by members of his senior command staff and the lack of leadership that has crushed morale throughout the agency.”

Israel’s stock skyrocketed in the initial aftermath of the shooting, highlighted by his appearance at CNN’s town hall with students and family from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, yet as more information became public about his department’s response, a clear pattern of at-the-least negligence on his part became clear.

The sheriff has resisted calls from nearly 100 Florida lawmakers to resign, and he refused to participate in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the shooting in March.

more: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/20/broward-county-deputies-no-confidence-vote-sheriff-scott-israel/

 

[Swordsmyth]

The National Rifle Association’s political arm had a record spike in donations in March, even as students took part in demonstrations in Washington and around the country calling for stronger gun control.
The NRA Political Victory Fund raised $2.4 million, up from $779,063 in February, according to its latest filing with the Federal Election Commission.
That was more than it had raised in any month since at least 2000, a review of FEC records showed. In 2016, when the NRA spent $31 million either attacking Hillary Clinton or supporting the campaign of Donald Trump, its political action committee collected a little less than $1.5 million in its best fundraising month. The Political Victory Fund ended March with $5.8 million in the bank.

More at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...a-s-political-action-committee-surge-in-march

 

[Swordsmyth]

Parkland school shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv says he was aggressively interrogated by police after social media posts showed he visited a gun range.
On Friday, Kashuv – who does not prescribe to the anti-gun rhetoric of his fellow anti-Second Amendment #NeverAgain peers – wrote he was learning to fire a gun for the first time.

It was great learning about our inalienable right of #2A and how to properly use a gun. This was my first time ever touching a gun and it made me appreciate the #Constitution even more. My instructor was very informative; I learnt a lot. #2A is important and we need 2 preserve 2A pic.twitter.com/4rcOZbpl88
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
​

“It was great learning about our inalienable right of #2A and how to properly use a gun. This was my first time ever touching a gun and it made me appreciate the #Constitution even more,” he tweeted, indicating in other posts he was there with his father. “My instructor was very informative; I learnt a lot. #2A is important and we need 2 preserve 2A”.
Other posts showed Kashuv firing an AR-15 and an instructor teaching him how to fire.

pic.twitter.com/NH5HkjPll2
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
​

Facts matter. I wish the facts of guns were more known. We need to educate the public and show them why they NEED the 2A. pic.twitter.com/HzjEx9LH2r
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
​

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." pic.twitter.com/mfVRATZ4DT
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
​

When he returned to school Monday he was ordered to the principal’s office, where he was informed that other students “had been upset by his posts,” according to The Daily Wire.
In a statement to The Wire, Kashuv described meeting with the armed campus resource officer, being questioned aggressively by a member of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and said police repeatedly referred to him as “the pro-Second Amendment kid.”

More at: https://www.infowars.com/cops-accost-pro-2nd-amendment-parkland-survivor-over-gun-range-photos/

 

[phill4paul]

Parkland school shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv says he was aggressively interrogated by police after social media posts showed he visited a gun range.
On Friday, Kashuv – who does not prescribe to the anti-gun rhetoric of his fellow anti-Second Amendment #NeverAgain peers – wrote he was learning to fire a gun for the first time.

It was great learning about our inalienable right of #2A and how to properly use a gun. This was my first time ever touching a gun and it made me appreciate the #Constitution even more. My instructor was very informative; I learnt a lot. #2A is important and we need 2 preserve 2A pic.twitter.com/4rcOZbpl88
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
​

“It was great learning about our inalienable right of #2A and how to properly use a gun. This was my first time ever touching a gun and it made me appreciate the #Constitution even more,” he tweeted, indicating in other posts he was there with his father. “My instructor was very informative; I learnt a lot. #2A is important and we need 2 preserve 2A”.
Other posts showed Kashuv firing an AR-15 and an instructor teaching him how to fire.

pic.twitter.com/NH5HkjPll2
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
​

Facts matter. I wish the facts of guns were more known. We need to educate the public and show them why they NEED the 2A. pic.twitter.com/HzjEx9LH2r
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
​

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." pic.twitter.com/mfVRATZ4DT
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
​

When he returned to school Monday he was ordered to the principal’s office, where he was informed that other students “had been upset by his posts,” according to The Daily Wire.
In a statement to The Wire, Kashuv described meeting with the armed campus resource officer, being questioned aggressively by a member of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and said police repeatedly referred to him as “the pro-Second Amendment kid.”

More at: https://www.infowars.com/cops-accost-pro-2nd-amendment-parkland-survivor-over-gun-range-photos/

NOW they are gonna do some investigatin'!!!

 

[timosman]

 

[Swordsmyth]

The father of a student slain in a Florida high school shooting is suing the armed Broward County deputy who ducked behind a building while people were massacred inside.
Meadow Pollack was one of the 17 killed during the Valentine's Day shooting in a freshman building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Her father, Andrew Pollack, is placing blame on former Broward County sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson - the high school's armed resource officer who was trained to confront an active shooter.

CCTV footage from the incident showed Broward County Sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson, 54, drive up to the high school building as a gunman massacred 17 students and staff members - only to hop off, unholster his gun, and run behind a concrete wall.

"He let my daughter get shot nine times at point-blank range," Pollack told the Miami Herald. "He had the opportunity to go in and instead, let all those people get murdered."

#BREAKING: Broward County Sheriff's Office releases security video showing Deputy Scot Peterson's actions during the February 14 shooting. pic.twitter.com/gs9kAbfgRq
— Ryan Saavedra ���� (@RealSaavedra) March 15, 2018​

Pollack's lawsuit also names the self-confessed shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz; the estate of Cruz's mother - who died in November; and Cruz's temporary foster family, James and Kimberly Snead, who took Cruz in after his mother died. Three behavioral and mental health facilities which evaluated Cruz prior to the shooting are also named.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...parkland-student-sues-deputy-who-ran-shooting