Youth reaction

Indeed, Ana.

Your child should not be allowed to ridicule a U.S. Senator, but your child should be allowed to buy an automatic weapon and shoot up a school.

I knew there would be people pushing back against the teens protesting lack of action on gun control, but I'm still surprised at the volume and the visciousness of it.  This one is pale, but no less problematic: respect is demanded, not earned.

A union.  They'll be getting the slings and arrows for sure.

The "solutions" of  "what we need is more people with guns" and "put armed forces (or drones, as I've seen recommended) in the schools" is beyond insane.  No wonder the kids are taking to the streets.  Their "respectable" elders have gone off the deep end.

In the end, I suspect they might get some mild concessions (although the Florida legislature wouldn't even allow a vote on the matter) meant to hush their voices rather than stop the mass killing.

“If the coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at this guy — that coach was very brave, saved a lot of lives I suspect — but if he had a firearm, he wouldn’t have had to run, he would have shot and that would have been the end of it,” Trump said.

“Gun-free zone, to a maniac — because they’re all cowards — a gun-free zone is ‘Let’s go in and let’s attack, because bullets aren’t coming back at us,” Trump said, wondering aloud about arming “20 percent of your teaching force.”

“You can’t have 100 security guards in Stoneman Douglas, that’s a big school,” he said. “It’s a massive school with a lot of acreage to cover, a lot of floor area, so that would be certainly a situation that is being discussed a lot by a lot of people.”

“You’d have a lot of people that’d be armed, that’d be ready, they are professionals, they may be Marines that left the Marines, left the Army, left the Air Force, and they are very adept at doing that. You’d have a lot of them and they would be spread evenly through the school.”

The President said he believed “that if these cowards knew that the school was well-guarded from the standpoint of having pretty much professionals with great training, I think they wouldn’t go into the school to start off with.”

  TPM

Jesus, Joseph and Mary.