Posted by mcm0704 on March 25, 2019 |
∞ While most people might be focused on the Mueller Investigation and the results, I want to look at something else making headlines: Sad news from Parkland, Florida, where two young people have committed suicide. On Saturday, a sophomore boy at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, committed suicide, making that the second suicide […]
Tags: #mondayblogs, assault weapons, family, guns, Jacinda Adhern, maryann miller, Never Again, New Zealand, odds and ends, Parkland Florida, PTSD, suicide, sydney aiello
Posted by mcm0704 on February 26, 2018 |
∞ Last week I listened to a Podcast that compared the recent responses to the mass shootings to what happened following the 2012 tragedy in Sandyhook. In both cases, survivors and families of those killed made endless pleas to Congress to ban assault weapons. In both cases, Congress refused. The podcast included clips of the […]
Tags: AR15, assault weapons, Barack Obama, gun control, guns, maryann miller, mass shootings, NRA, Parkland Florida, politics, Sandyhook, The Daily Podcast, the Dallas Morning News, writing
Posted by mcm0704 on February 19, 2018 |
∞ My heart is weighed down with sadness over the horrible loss of lives in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday. So many – too many – young people had their futures taken away in the flash of gunfire by a disturbed gunman who obtained an assault weapon much too easily. I heard on The Daily Podcast Friday […]
Tags: #mondayblogs, AR 15, assault weapons, Cameron Kasky, cats, Emma Gonzales, gun control, gun violence, maryann miller, news, Parkland Florida, politics, school shootings, students speak out, The Daily Podcast
Posted by mcm0704 on October 3, 2017 |
∞ There have been 270 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2017, and now we’ve had another. The latest in Las Vegas is one of the worst in U.S. history where 59 people were killed and hundreds injured. Not much is known about the shooter, or why he did this, but what is increasingly clear is that gun control […]
Tags: assault weapons, gun control, maryann miller, mass shooting, odds and ends, POD Save America, Puerto Rico, racism, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Posted by mcm0704 on June 17, 2016 |
∞ Before we get into the news and other odds and ends, I thought you might enjoy this meme. The caption from Rita Rudner is priceless. In The News This video on Blue Nation Review of Joe Biden responding to the Trumster’s verbal assault on Judge Gonzalo Curiel in the media is worth watching. Judge Curiel is presiding over […]
Tags: assault weapons, gun control, jokes, maryann miller, orlando, trump, Writing Tips
Another Tragedy in Florida
While most people might be focused on the Mueller Investigation and the results, I want to look at something else making headlines: Sad news from Parkland, Florida, where two young people have committed suicide. On Saturday, a sophomore boy at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, committed suicide, making that the second suicide […]
Tags: #mondayblogs, assault weapons, family, guns, Jacinda Adhern, maryann miller, Never Again, New Zealand, odds and ends, Parkland Florida, PTSD, suicide, sydney aiello