Parkland shooting one year on: powerful speeches from the survivors
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- Published on Feb 14, 2019
- Seventeen people were killed on 14 February 2018 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida. After the tragedy Parkland students united and campaigned for change
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Questions? Which means resulting in mass injury, even death,
choice of delivery weaponry, is more desirable, clubbing with a metal baseball
bat, stabbing and slashing with a long sharp machete, or shooting with a high
caliber military style assault rifle?
Yeah Teach That!!😀😎
*17 killed kids*
*14 hurt*
*1 killer*
*and after all this crime...*
*no gun control*
Like it should be.
" he wouldnt have harmed they many students with a knife "
Yeah but its still someones life
jayden gummy bear MSP yea that thot is stupid
Teachers and administrators fail to educate American youth, it's a disgrace; they should be ashamed of themselves for failing the students. They hide behind a smokescreen of "standardized" testing.
Bald chick: 6 minutes have passed and the gunfire has stopped. I’m blended in with students
Crowd: WHOOOOO!!!!
Someone fired a shotgun through her jeans holy hell
i feel like the people that were not in the school have forgotten the shock that they had when this was on the news. remember the terror? has it all faded? the victims however; they never forget
La Goblina!!!!
These young people were so brave. I can't imagine what it is like to see your friends dying right in front of you.
But still many americans don't get it. You talk about your liberty taken away from you with stricter gun laws? Well, I live in Germany and I never had to worry about mass shootings. It Simply doesn't happen here that often. That is it what liberty should feel like and I'm glad to live in a country like that.
why wasnt the background music hope by x
She admitted that she bullied the shooter which was fuel for him shooting the school
emma gonazales...school bully. lets ask all the immigrants feeling from the south American countries to America why they are fleeing.... a better life? of course, because the only people who have real guns in their homeland countries are drug dealers and corrupt governments lol...
Not giving up rights for the acts of madmen or the negligence of sheriff Israels lack of action 29 times the sheriffs dept was at Cruzs house and they failed to act on that ticking time bomb !!!! The 2A is a inalienable right! HOGG was not even there he was caught lying These liberal socialists are truly sick in the head!
COLD DEAD HANDS!!!!!
David Hogg is CIA.
This event was an active shooting drill.
You mean "it was NOT an active shooting drill, right and people DID die, right?"
guns are for cowards
That’s why most are alive
The super majority of gun owners in America have never shot anyone. Why are we criminalized constantly by Democrats?
That bald dude has a girly voice.
Survivors? Mate, you were skipping class and getting high.
Can anyone tell me why the bald girl gets a lot of hate.
Parkland was awful, but too many gun laws/banning certain guns are bad. Law abiding citizens are forced to wait weeks, or even months for their guns while criminals pay a dealer a few hundred dollars in cash and get their guns all Willy nilly. And why are they all saying the 'blood is on Trump's hands'? Obama was in office when many school shootings happened, and he passed much less gun laws than Trump did, why didn't anyone call Obama out? Maybe, just maybe, the media is using ANOTHER tragedy caused by a 1 in 100 nut job to push an anti-trump message! Also, Emma Gonzales doesn't know what she's saying. She contributed to the shooters mental illness, talking about compassion but admitting to bullying him severely. And he wouldn't hurt anyone with a knife? Have you seen Japan. Some people can kill more people with a kitchen knife than the shooters did with a gun!
Well, if there is another mass shooting (god forbid) be sure to hold your "no more guns" sign as a shield 🛡
How can this have twice more dislikes so heartless
@Santiago Colla noooo
Maybe because gun control doesn't make any sense
NAZl PR0PAGANDA! DUH
I wish the World was peaceful
It's the most peaceful time in history.
It is. Governments are not. They prey on our suffering, and profit from staging and creating wars.
These kids were exploited by Hollywood elites and dark money to create that movement. Sorry, but my constitutional rights are not for sale.
Narcissistic shells bent on destroying civilization.
You trump fan boys are so scared of these kids :( aw
Jaden Bickers aw you’re scared your role model President Trump is under attack? :(
You cant be that stupid.
Scared of what? Their fallacies that if they cry enough we might feel bad enough to give up our Right?
Keep dreaming, transsexual cupcake.
We have a conservative Supreme Court who are already talking about loosening gun control regulations.
But I take pleasure in knowing how much you *fear* inanimate objects.
Look, this shooting was a tragedy but they're missing part of the point. Gun laws only weaken the people of the United States. Why dont we increase school security? Pay more attention to people who may he threats. Because I can guarantee you people who go to Parkland could say " yeah there was something off about they guy who shot us up".
There needs to be better enforcement on civilians with guns. Two the culture in this country needs to do better. The thing that baffles me is I don't hear any thing about the culture in that school. Honestly that school looks like a douchebag rich private school. If the guy was seriously bullied, it is actually cute the media not wanting to look deep into the culture in that school. Lastly, better mental health. People need to see more therapists and there is nothing wrong with seeing one. They deserve more money in general.
Let's see. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel's police department (Who visited Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's home due to over 30 domestic violence calls. But didn't even place him in custody of a mental health hospital for an overnight mental health observation), Nikolas Cruz's guardians (Who were familiar with his mental problems. But let him buy firearms instead of telling him "I am sorry. But due to your mental health problems, you are not allowed to buy firearms as long as you are living under our roof. My house, my rules!"), Nikolas Cruz's high school (Who was so familiar with Cruz's threats of violence that some teachers actually banned him from bringing a backpack to their classes), and the FBI (Whose Washington D.C. office received a tip that Cruz was planning a school shooting a few weeks before it happened. But didn't pass the tip to the Florida office). >:( But hey! Let's continue demonizing the NRA and millions of responsible, law-abiding, American gun owners! (Rolling eyes)
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At least were deporting you Mexican bots. 🤣
I’m hopeful for these young people to make a difference but even on the last election cycle - 18 to 29 year olds, only 1 in 3 voted
misinformed or misguided perhaps, but not dumb like you
Guess you didn't inspire them enough.
Is it just me or do they all seem a lot more afraid of violence n their schools today then we did 30 years ago when there was a much higher rate of violence in schools? For whatever reason, this latest rally to suggest new "common sense " gun laws has culminated in the ultimate suggestion that Trump is somehow responsible for school shootings and should take less vacations. So apparently if Trump takes less vacations then we don't need to change any laws? I'm just trying to make sense of the solutions so clearly presented by these kids. In the last few years of the use of children by the liberal left to further their agenda of disarming Americans which has nothing at all to do with school shootings, I have yet to hear a single solution presented by the left except when one of them slips up and actually states that they are going to try to take all firearms away from all citizens. It has become almost comical (save for the fact they are trying to remove our constitutional rights) to hear them trying so hard NOT to say that and to hear them continually tripping over themselves to say they "are not trying to take away anyone's guns, just the bad ones." "we just want to make it so hard for a law abiding citizen to own a firearm that no one will ever be able to own one again, except criminals." I guess that way when someone is shot to death that did not deserve it, then it must have been a criminal who shot them. not exactly sound reasoning but hay, we don't do anything about your bathtubs and their responsible for more deaths in your home then your guns are if I'm not mistaken? Pharmaceutical drugs? No problem for our youth! driving deaths? you gotta learn how to drive somehow right? If it costs innocent lives in the process then you should become that much better of a driver right? Don't mind the drugs and human trafficking from south America? Just ignore the much bigger problem then school gun violence and blame it all on the one person trying to fix it all for you so you don't actually have to lift a finger trying to make things right yourself by paying closer attention to your friends and families and getting them help when they need it. I know thats asking a lot but it's not like I'm forcing you to do it.
So when poeple stop using guns and start using bombs who real the blame and after 911 why don't blame the aircraft manufacturers and ban aircraft, And let not forget the Oklahoma bombing mass killings will not stop till we do something with people of mental illness if someone want to kill they will find a way even using cars and trucks.
If some one shot the guy before he got inside we wouldn't be here know would me
moon grazed The “deputy” that was on guard that day could have stopped the shooter.
Agendas R' Us
Republicans don't care about mass shootings.
If Democrats cared they would have done something during Obama's first term when they had both The Senant and Congress.
@Maddock fitzsimmins exterminate the mentally ill and there will be no more school shootings
Well they seem to care enough to want us all to be able to protect ourselves. you may want to take a second loooong hard look at who cares about you in this country. Your going to find a lot of Dems who say they do but act in the most direct opposition to those feelings of yours every day.
Where is David Hogg the puppet.
So 58 people die in Las Vegas more than 800 wounded and this shooting is still being pushed through by the media? Yeah let's take the guns from legally abiding citizens. That way when the criminals who don't care about laws come around itll be easier for them to hurt people.
We should just let high school students write all new federal and state laws
Lmfao that's definitely the most ignorant thing I've heard today, please reassure me and tell me that your joking.
Lol
thats why they elected Cortez. Now a junior high school girl is n congress.
Molon Labe 🇺🇲
Everybody here needs to go on Google and look at pictures of mutilated white babies murdered by black racist monsters in South Africa. Saddest thing I've ever seen. This is your future, United States. Don't let evil black racists win! Fight back! Those could be your innocent babies being murdered by evil black racist monsters!fdg
Six mins twenty ,another child is brain damaged by wifi in schools .Six mins twenty a child is told they are non binary in schools
Lmao...
0:01 not Amber Rose.
0:01 the Last air bender.
0:01 Britney Spears.
0:01 Danny Vinyard.
You can’t take my guns away.
why?
Can the Parkland students united name a gun control law that only affects criminals?
I think it's their "make all gun owners criminals" law that is aimed at that.
Was there any CHANGE demanded by the people from the BREWARD COUNTY COWARDS I mean heroes my bad, not to hide behind cars like little b****s? The ones who met the CREATOR, may GOD truly protect your SOUL.
Boooooo
Who are these lobbyists?
friends of AOC.
These kids have my sympathy... until they try to take away my 2nd Amendment rights. So... f*ck them.
@belly tripper "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
I feel sorry for your mother
If America did something about its stupid gun laws you then may start to save human life.
@terry I agree. Let's end Gun Free Zones.
so true. we need to repeal every one of the stupid gun laws so we can start defending ourselves against the criminal element. Well some of us will, some will cower under their beds cursing Trump for all their woes right up until the end.
Just to keep y’all informed Norway has far more mass shooting per capita than the US, a terrible event cannot and shall not justify the taking away of rights, taking away liberties for perceived increased security is immoral and is against everything this great country stands for
Great information, thank you for sharing! American schools are preaching Ultra liberal ideologies, but failing to educate the students! That's why America statistically performs very poorly in relation to other nations. Educators are failing the kids!
Do u want more
GEWDFERYEW yes and a large majority of those homicides are drug related so don’t do drugs and break the law and you will have an overwhelmingly low chance of being killed by firearms
@GEWDFERYEW
Cherry Picking. You forgot to illustrate the differences of what constitutes a mass shooting.
Norway has 1 out of ~5million people.
Finland has had 3 out of ~5million or 1 per 1.76million.
US from 1982-2019 has had 109 out of ~330million or 1 per 3.03million
So the whole per capita mass shooting number needs to be looked at closer.
Money is money tho right ??
This is why I carry a gun.
@Laszlo Zoltan Disarming law-abiding citizens/Deputies who are willing to risk their lives preventing these tragedies from happening is pure cowardice. If you care so much for these innocent students who don't deserve to go through these heinous massacres, give these teachers/staff members a gun to prevent these tragedies from happening.
@Laszlo Zoltan - "guns are for cowards", please keep preaching that to the liberal base...!
This is why I carry a gun too... ✌
@Laszlo Zoltan So you'd rather school kids be killed than have a deputy be on campus? I mean, I understand not liking guns, but can you put that aside for a second and try and help these people?
....and fools
The tide pod generation 🤦♂️
The dumbing-down of America, you can thank teachers and educators!
Ahh yes, great words from The Vaping Polisher.
Can we start calling boomers the pollution generation?
The US could have the introduce the strongest gun laws ever; there’s just one major issue: criminals don’t follow laws!
You could have contributed to make it less likely for this massacre to ever happen again, but instead you chose say: "What about this or that," standing up for nothing. No change. Just waiting for a next massacre to come.
An AR-15 shouldn't have gone into the hands of a 19-year-old kid nor into the hands of any civilian, don't you think? The same thing with grenades. You don't need them for self-protection. What is this weapon for if not for killing people en masse? It shouldn't even be manufactured.
Or do you consider it an infringment on your freedom that you can't buy grenades?
You say: "Criminals have guns." Don't you think it would have been much harder for N. Cruz to get an AR-15 on the black market? None of this would have happened then.
Why not make it harder for people to get these weapons? Is it just because the gun lobby is more important here? Money? Really? That's what you care for?
No system will be perfect, all I'm asking is: "Try to make it better!"
And to Santiago Colla, this is beyond left or right. Or how many of these 17 lives (+ N. Cruz's and many other's broken ones) were left and how many right? Wake up! You already have gun control, just make it work better.
Everybody, isn't it also time to think about the causes of this? Why was there so much hate in him? Why the guns? Was he just mentally ill, or did media and social atmosphere play part? Why is there so much hatred in American culture (media, entertainment, politics etc.)? I'm asking just in case you want to tell me something nasty. Don't hate.
Common sense lefties don't understand.
So much emotion so little logic.
Teachers and administrators suck the logic and critical thinking out of these kids and replace it with ultra liberal ideology
Barack Hussein Obama let me see when this happens to you and you’ll be there acting all calm. Think before you speak Klingon these people have lost their loved ones
Hans That’s pathos for you... Only use logos
hopefully, when it happens to you you can demonstrate your cool
Hans how
Another person with a gun could have stopped those deaths
Just saying
Live Free or Die USA they want them gay tranny and fucked up coming out.
They are undermining America why I won’t send my children to public school
ChilledIce then you would have murder crimes for big guys crime would increase robbing people in possession of guns. Do you think laws fix this?
The real question is, why aren't teachers giving America's youth a good education
An armed officer was near the school when the shooting started, he didn't go in, he walked around to scared to take action. Good guy with gun lets bad guy with gun kill people. Your proposition in action.
Paid for and approved by Dummycrats.
The real question is, why aren't teachers giving America's youth a good education
@D W Will you please shut up! Sandy Hook was not at all fake! You are debunking information that has been debunked several times, and you still believe it to be a government staged masonry capstone fakeass hoax six years later!
@Shak - thanks for admitting that Hogg is an "it". We've all suspected.
@D W and where is it?
Wait, this is still a thing? I haven’t heard about them for 10 months. Agree with the first comment also. You’re in America, at least have the American flag somewhere on you.
Gun freaks keep forgetting about the "organized militia" part.
"keep forgetting about the "organized militia" part"
Gun control freaks keep forgetting the comma, and that the right of the people (not the militia) to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". The comma is their to connote that one is an example and the other is the actual right. If this right was solely for militias, it would have said the right of the militia.
Uneducated liberals keep forgetting the *fact* that Second Amendment is a *individual right* that is completely *unconnected to service in a militia* .
Supreme Court > Leftist opinions
"An organized militia" not "The organized militia." Indicating a non specific militia not one dictated by the government which would be "The organized militia"
The founding fathers weren't dumb. Try finding other parts that these hacks supposedly screwed up.
@David F. V. Silva He sounds like he likes freedom. Hard to blame...
@Maddock fitzsimmins you sound like the kind of person who shouldn't have a gun.
They're still getting paid?
And where's your proof?
Nick Cruz was unconscious when he was apprehended. There is ZERO evidence he was even there. This is the work of generational LIARS. Disarm the public and you can easily dispose of those who dont agree with you. THAT is what this is about, we have history to show how this ends, 260 Million human beings killed by their own governments in the 20th century alone.
Changing gun laws isn’t going to change how people treat each other. When you change how you treat each other, you will change how people think.
Not exactly. Gun laws are different in every state. So why do people still treat people the same? The real people kill eachother isn’t because guns are legal or easy to get. They kill people because they hate them. Taking away guns doesn’t get rid of hateful people.
Maybe if we change gun laws we'll change how people treat eachother with guns
"Get your resumes ready".... ooh i like it, this is going to be one hell of a David vs Goliath story for the 21st century... Damn boy!!!
more like Simple Jack vs the rational thinker.
Take guns from
Chicago THUGS👈🇺🇸👍
Teachers and administrators are failing America's youth!
@Sarah Tolerant liberal
@Sarah The police and the FBI failed on their jobs. Also, a .223 ( don't know do a google search) is EXTREMELY WEAK ( I own the 2 AR-15 platforms; one is .50 beowolf the other is .223) and other types of firearms like bolt actions and more. To be honest the 17 killed where BLEEDING OUT because of the poor response time ( HORRIBLE, PAINFUL and SLOW DEATH ).
@Sarah Somebody
needs a HUG 👈😁🇺🇸
EAGLE SHIELD hope u get killed
We haven’t gotten a huge massacre this year 2019. Hopefully no more but reality there will be another one. Hopefully those people say I love you to every person they care about before it’s over for them. 🙏🏻.
Maddock fitzsimmins 🛀🏻
do you say that to everyone before you leave the house every morning? must not bathe, bathtubs take a lot of lives before breakfast.
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!!
Teachers and administrators fail to educate American youth, it's a disgrace; they focus on ultra-liberal indoctrination.
Just stop, bro. We have a right to live, and that shall not be infringed by your need to own guns. 20-30% have one or more guns in our country. That's it.
@Owen ProffittIt's still an extremely slow and brutal death to die from.
@Chris Jovy That is correct, the FBI and the police did fail. And according to the articles that I reviewed, the.223 does seem to be weak compared to other calibers. And I'm not sure about the victims dying a slow death considering how we don't have too much information about their death, plus some of them were shot multiple times.
More people are killed in car wrecks then by gunfire every year you gonna take the cars away 🤔nope didn’t think so
@Juan Montilla
Says the moron who doesn't know that a period goes at the end of sentence?
Did you get your shitty education in Mexico?
wait till one of these slightly off their rocker kids realizes what a car can do to a group of people. only a matter of time. I remember talking with my mother about gun control and the terrorists shooting and stabbing people in Europe and I told her "wait until one of these muslims realizes what a truck can do." It wasn't two weeks later that one did realize what a weapon a vehicle can be. once that happens the first time there will likely be others and then where will they be on gun control? lets all face one fact, just as we build our buildings to withstand natural disasters, we must build to prevent these disasters as well. you cant predict when someone will snap every time just as you cant predict an earth quake or tornado. we don't ban air to reduce tornadoes do we? "but there is only one reason for guns" thats correct, guns are the great equalizer. they give strength to the weak so they may defend themselves from those who would take what is theirs by right. If you can think of any other tool that can do that then we have a place to start talking but remember, no law has ever protected anyone from violence at any point in history. No hopes or dreams of strong feelings will stop a knife or a bullet or a car or a sharp stick.
Fish Staink Logical Fallacies 101 comparing accidents with Acts committed intentionally! Thats why we need affordable higher education 😂
Feminist scum
Look at all the indoctrinated children doing the dirty work for the socialist.
@Live Free or Die and where's your proof of that?
@Shak - Great question! The schools (teachers and administrators) are failing to educate our children, yet they have plenty of time to spend preaching ultra-liberal ideologies. More...
@Live Free or Die why you blaming teachers?
Teachers and administrators fail to educate American youth, it's a disgrace; they focus on ultra-liberal indoctrination.
tougher laws will only hurt the law abiding citizens, criminals will always find ways to have guns and now will be able to hurt those who cant have one to protect them selves because you put more laws in place, Think the big picture and not in the moment
@ImTrying your a liberal
Why can no one understand that gun control means putting more control on who can get a gun so that an AR-15 doesn't fall into the hands of a 19 year old "law abiding citizen" (he legally bought the gun). Gun control doesn't have anything to do with abolishing guns, it's not even in the name. It's about security so that we can ensure that the only people who are getting guns are the ones who should have them (aka adults after proper background check and training). Also, it is controlling the types of guns available to the common man, no person needs an AR-15 even if just for self-defense.
"Criminals will always find ways to have guns", so we're just going to give them free right to it? How is that any better. By that same logic, we might as well legalize prostitution and cocaine, right? If you are a law abiding citizen then you shouldn't worry about the laws that are directed towards criminals who abuse weapons.
There have been more school shootings now than ever, and your solution is to make guns MORE accessible? It's simple math, less guns = less killing by use of guns. Also, statistics show over and over again that most households guns get used for murder or suicide, NOT self-defense.
Old news
These kids are all” we demand you take all of our rights!!!!”
@Santiago Colla Your point? Guns can kill must faster. Let's solve one problem at a time.
@ChilledIce a knife can kill dozens of people per minute
@That One Country That Everyone Loves. A gun. What else would I be talking about?
ChilledIce What mythical weapon are you talking about?
Working in the gun trade ? There will be karma when you earn a living killing ANYONES children. 🙇♀️ PEACE TO THE PARENTS, SURVIVE TO TEACH, N'OBLIEZ JAMAIS 🙇♀️
So do you blame Ford when someone is killed by their trucks? Simpleton.
6 minutes and 20 seconds= 20+ abortions in the United States ❤️
18,000 abortions every week in the USA, teachers are indoctrinating American Youth to believe this is acceptable.
Way to wreck-it Ralph! Award for most non-sequitur of the day! Also, ending with a heart? Not sure what you're trying to say there??
@Thomas Brady All Americans are welfare babies.
Oh well, Americans are overrated.
So when they start using bombs instead of guns who well they blame.
How come the worst mass shooting in US history the 2017 Las Vegas shooting by Stephen Paddock has just disappeared from the media's collective consciousness? It's never been uttered again by the likes of the Guardian...
Because schools are failing to educate our kids and indoctrinating them with ultra liberal ideologies... so the kids are on the news babbling stupidity
The police and the FBI failed on their jobs. Also, a .223 ( don't know do a google search) is EXTREMELY WEAK ( I own the 2 AR-15 platforms; one is .50 beowolf the other is .223) and other types of firearms like bolt actions and more. To be honest the 17 killed where BLEEDING OUT because of the poor response time ( HORRIBLE, PAINFUL and SLOW DEATH ).
The Parkland shooting happened at a high school and young guys my age were killed
Likely because the guy was a Democrat and the shooter certainly wasn't using a AR-15 with a bump stock.
Because he's a progressive
If someone can walk in the front door of a school and roam the halls of a school, you have a waiting problem. If anyone can carry in anything, you have a waiting problem.
I never knew any of the victims in the shooting. But I hope your are all resting peacefully in heaven!
@Maddock fitzsimmins America needs more guns
@dark lord nothing to say? maybe stay silent then.
It was a good shooting for America
This was a horrible crime but, these young people are not helping....
Teachers and administrators fail to educate American youth, it's a disgrace; they focus on ultra-liberal indoctrination.
@Demetrius Pierce - Same thing. This is a first step to gun confiscation. It is 'infringe'...
Perla Valladares we are fighting for gun control not to take them away
@Michael Skillern - Very simple. rather than allow themselves to be used by the political left as a tool to take gun ownership away from law abiding citizens which has now embroiled them in a war with gun owners, they should have lobbied for what can be done and will work. Something that almost everyone would support. Secure school campuses with a national / state coop School Security Service that includes barrier fencing, secure check point entry and armed guards. This should have already been done but, instead we now have an endless confrontation between gun grabbers and 2nd amendment supporters...
How so? Should they just shut up and live with it. What's your solution?