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| Mass shooting at a high school in suburban Charlotte, North Carolina. |
In about eight days, we will see if Americans adhere to the words of the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association. We will see if the issues of guns become a rally cry for their base.
I mean how many school shootings since Parkland?
What will Congress do to change this?
I expect the word vomit of "thoughts and prayers" and "my heart goes out to" in every presser. The phony sympathy from Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence, Gov. Roy Cooper, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) will be at the forefront with their statements on this shooting.
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| The victim Bobby McKeithen was well love by family and friends. |
Instead of giving American corporations tax breaks why don't we pass sensible gun reform.
We just had one of the worst mass shootings towards a religion. A terrorist managed to kill 11 innocent parishioners at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The Tree of Life massacre is the worst mass shooting to happen upon the Jewish faith.
We shouldn't have to go through mass shooting drills. We shouldn't have to go through school shooting drills and school lockdowns.
A suspect managed to slip past school security.
Another school shooting in the United States. This was inside a school in the Charlotte metro area. The suspect was caught. Who actually takes the blame
The terrorist is a fellow student. A North Carolina high school freshman was charged with first-degree murder after he fatally shot a fellow student, police said Monday. The terrorist is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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| Terrorist was charged with first degree murder. |
"And as fear took over, a young person bought a gun to solve the problems," Wilcox said.
The shooting happened just before the final bell rang for students to go into their classrooms, according to Tyrrell.
He said a school resource officer was in the cafeteria area when he and school security officers heard a commotion in an adjoining hallway at 7:14 a.m. They ran to the hallway and started giving the victim first aid within 15 to 20 seconds, Tyrrell said.
The school immediately went into a lockdown, Tyrrell said.
Two other police officers, including a school resource officer directing traffic in front of the school, entered the school within minutes, according to Tyrrell.
About five to seven minutes after the shooting, authorities learned from a teacher that she was with the suspected shooter, Tyrrell said. The suspect admitted to the shooting and, around 7:25 a.m., said he wanted to surrender, Tyrrell said.
No one else was injured in the shooting.
"This event actually began days before this morning. So what took place this morning was something that built up," Tyrrell said.
He said several people knew there was a chance of an altercation on Monday morning.
"And we just didn't have that information until after it happened," he said.
Wilcox said the schools don't have metal detectors and students aren't searched when they enter the building.
"Some have asked me, how could someone, especially a student, come on to one of our campus(es) with a loaded gun," Wilcox said. "And I wish I had an answer to that. There really is no easy answer."
The superintendent said the school will be closed on Tuesday.
Matthews is located about 22 miles southeast of Charlotte.
This one will not be covered by the junk food media. It's not a school shooting. It's not a missing white girl. It's not an issue where the agitators can blame Muslims or white extremists. It's the right wing playbook.
Black On Black Crime.
The right constantly reminds their supporters that it's the fault of Barack Obama, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Eric Holder and Black Lives Matter. Even though they have no control over how a person would commit criminal acts, they're fingered because they're the only Black people the right seems to often target in their word vomit.
The state allowed individuals shoot and kill unarmed citizens because the individual wanted to "stand their ground."
The state allowed mass shooters into our schools and libraries. The only way for us to prevent gun violence is "thoughts and prayers" and "my heart going out to" cliches.
I am tired of "thoughts and prayers." They won't heal the wounded. They won't bring back the dead.
I am tired of politicians telling us that "now isn't the time to talk about gun violence."
I am tired of politicians and media agitators on the right acting condescending around Black people. I don't think it's their place to tell me how to raise my child or how to live my life. I thought they were all about "freedom."
Had enough right?
Are you going to vote?
VOTE EARLY.
VOTE ABSENTEE BALLOT.
VOTE NOVEMBER 6, 2018.
Restore sanity to the country. Under Trump, people of color are suffering. With white people calling the law on Black people minding their business, it appears infuriating that we allow our lawmakers to continue to justify this.
The Republicans are using the same old tired playbook given to them by Rush Limbaugh, Sean "Softball" Hannity, The Drudge Report, Fox News and Breitbart. They are fully engaged in the culture war.
The Republicans are going to win on the culture war. We can stop them if we get off our asses and vote this Midterm election.
Remember.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
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