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Gun violence is gun violence...whether it's at a school in Florida or on the streets of Chicago. Ask the gun violence victims in Chicago how gun laws are helping protect them. Fact is, taking down the NRA, violating the Constitution by enacting more gun laws won't save a single life.
But what COULD have prevented the deaths of those children in Florida was citizens in Broward County opposing the policies of their school board and Sheriff that allowed the murderer to avoid a criminal record that would have prevented him from buying a firearm. No laws were needed...just applying existing laws.
Those media darlings aren't talking about their own County. They are wasting their time snarking about state and national politicians and the NRA.
The post is challenging to stoop to meet given its reckless and sweeping claims and its standard rightwing fare of throwing in the Chicago kitchen sink as often and as frequently as possible in whatever the thread topic. It could seem the post wrote itself.
So you'd have to provide the specifics of any Broward County policies (or programs) that allowed or enabled the massacre to occur. Your reference to violating the Constitution is NRA OTT. Indeed, citizens who can't read are the last people to listen to about the Constitution. Further, the statement "those media darlings aren't talking about their own country" ignores the numerous school shooting massacres in the United States over the past 20 years and more. I'd ask what country the rightwhinge has been in during this time but never mind, at least for the moment. And worst of all, it is the grotesque likelihood we haven't yet had the last school shooting massacre to include the remaining months of 2018 that lie immediately before us as a nation.