animlzrule
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Threads like this make people want to buy more guns.
What a sickening commentary on the caliber of citizens in our country. SMH. It should be the exact opposite.
Threads like this make people want to buy more guns.
Threads like this make people want to buy more guns.
What a sickening commentary on the caliber of citizens in our country. SMH. It should be the exact opposite.
I was glad to see some of the students being afforded the opportunity to speak out via the media today as well. It's easy to sit back and be complacent when it's not happening to you or your loved ones.
This text message exchange is heartbreaking: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/us/sisters-texts-florida-school-shooting-trnd/index.html
In his Instagram pic of a similar gun he was considering buying, it was $200 + for gun alone. I asked a ways back, where he got the money. He had more guns than just this one.
President Trump, in a pro-forma public statement on the Parkland, Fla., shooting, ordered flags on government buildings to be flown at half-mast through Monday, but didn't call for any reconsideration of the nation's inexcusably lax gun laws. Last February, he scrapped an Obama-era regulation making it tougher for people with mental illnesses to buy a gun.
Perhaps Trump doesn't want to risk disturbing the NRA, which spent more than $30 million in 2016 to support him and defeat his opponent, Hillary Clinton. (These figures come from the Center for Responsive Politics.)
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-nra-politicians-20180215-story.html
My company just got bought out. My old insurance had full-blown benefits for therapy, which I utilized in full for one of my dependents. My new insurance has suck for mental health benefits. Very frustrating! I can pay $800 a month for weekly counseling or find affordable options such as student interns, which is looking like the best option for us at this point.Yes, it is hard to find help for these kids. Sometimes you'll find it, but then insurance will stop paying for the facility. Or the child starts a treatment plan and does well for 6 months...then quits taking medicine/stops therapy. It's a difficult path.
Graduation Rates- I am in charge of graduation rates for a district and am not sure how a district could fake the stats. They start tracking this in 9th grade. If a student leaves your high school, and you can't provide proof that they enrolled in another school (in state or out of state) or left to homeschool, then that student counts against your stats if they do not graduate. It also counts against a school when students drop out and get a GED. In my state, I'm not sure how you could cheat the stats with computerized enrollment programs.
I also worked many years as a school counselor and can contest that many schools work very diligently to get help for troubled students. I have been involved with families that we took to court to have a judge force them to get their child mental health counseling or to continue medication for severe issues like schizophrenia or schizoaffective. I've called Child Protective services and LE and have worked hand-in-hand with both to get help for students. I had a Licensed Therapist on site who provided therapy students, but a parent had to give permission and be involved in the therapy. It is extremely frustrating if you don't have a parent who is willing to get help for their child. And you would be shocked at parents who do not cooperate. Some parents had their own mental health issues. Others didn't like the school's involvement and moved away...and I would pick up the phone and contact the next school to give them info. Sorry for the rant, but I promise some schools work very hard to get help for troubled students. And schools cannot tell other parents what all they have done to get help for a student.
It sounds like the shooter did have previous mental health services. But at 19, as an adult, he could make his own choices about getting help or taking meds.
I read the shooter was FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome), but I wonder if he was RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder) too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5396665/Florida-shooter-19-fetal-alcohol-syndrome.html
Inheritance? Life insurance from his mom passing? He also did have a job. even if minimum wage, if he’s not paying rent, it’s not hard to acquire $200. JMO
New video Cnn short
Dressing appropriately is difficult with this population
Neighbor filming
he is in underwear with giant military boots ( that is the wrong order) shoes without pants over ones underwear
who puts on lace up black boots black socks while wearing underwear outside
red cap
as the video starts he is walking in
apparently he had a compulsion to shoot his BB gun a couple of times and goes back in
as it relates to the shooting
At some level plans the events
afterwards in a purple polo shirt decides he is a dash thirsty
while cop cars are screeching all over the city
calls dad to say he is a bit confused if he might have done something bad insight is non existent
then apparently decides he is in the mood in his notable purple polo for a quarter pounder
clear indicators of a brain incapable of processing the world around him
cops called to the house 30 times
moo
classic developmental delay issues
re read above and make if as if a three year old did some of this
different world huh ??
My company just got bought out. My old insurance had full-blown benefits for therapy, which I utilized in full for one of my dependents. My new insurance has suck for mental health benefits. Very frustrating! I can pay $800 a month for weekly counseling or find affordable options such as student interns, which is looking like the best option for us at this point.
As long as the US perioritizes gun rights over mental health, I see no change coming. Ever.
Don't get me wrong, we have numerous guns locked in a rather sophisticated 500-lb gun safe, and they will stay essentially inaccessible until we are empty nesters again. That is not even open for discussion. I am mama bear, hear me roar.
She's grieving. She is a survivor. She has direct experience of this horror. It was hard to watch for sure, but anger and grief that fuel change are surely better than the usual platitudes. And some, if not all, of the systemic failures she highlights are within the control of the President, and certainly of legislators broadly considered.
What? Her child is dead because another person decided to cause harm to them. I am not going to discuss NRA or anythingredients dealing with them because it's not supposed to be on this thread. There were several chances to stop this tragedy but no one took the reigns and did. The warning signs were there, no one acted
At the very least, the age to purchase a semi automatic needs to be upped to 21 or 25. If that were the case, most of these “school shooters” would not have been able to obtain one so easily.
Ok, please link to where President Trump signed anything that directly caused this? He signed what?
Threads like this make people want to buy more guns.
Then they'll rent a box truck and ram it into a group of people