"Peter’s parents, who do not speak English fluently, struggled to keep up with those conversations, or to take the kind of action that might have given them an outlet for their grief."
and this by the state that acquitted the nazi who killed #TrayvonMartin and the same state that did NOTHING after one of the largest school massacres in the United States, #Parkland
A family home on #ProspectLake adjacent to a park has been #donated to the District of #Saanich to ensure the site is preserved as #parkland in $perpetuity.
It borders South Prospect Lake Park to the northwest, while to the east, it borders land leased by #PowerToBe, a #nonprofit devoted to getting people out into nature.
OK people in #Scotland. I'm looking for a few days holiday in the East of Scotland next summer - either #Perth, #Angus or #Fife areas.
Want a pet-friendly hotel with easy access to #woodland or #parkland to exercise dog. Happy to pay a bit extra for dog - but not the £50 per day some are asking. Want a hotel that also serves evening meal.
Socialism—Government subsidies, but only for the manufacturer of AR-15 bullets— in rural Missouri, of course.. [Gifted article, no paywall]: NYTimes: Army Ammunition Plant Is Tied to Mass Shootings Across the U.S.
The site was built for the military, but commercial sales are booming with little public accountability. Rounds have been bought by murderers, antigovernment groups and others. By Ben Dooley
💔We’ve had thousands of people die of gun violence and we’ve basically done nothing at the federal level to substantially address it💔
-- David Hogg
As members of the youth-led gun control movement born out of the country’s deadliest high school mass shooting – the 2018 shooting in which 17 people were killed in #Parkland, Florida – #Hogg and #Bosley represent thousands of young Americans demanding change.
“What’s happened is obviously heartbreaking, but at the same time, extremely frustrating,” 23-year-old Hogg said.
In 2018, Hogg survived the Parkland shooting and went on to co-lead the pro-gun control 🙏🏻March for Our Lives 🙏🏻rally, one of the largest youth-led demonstrations since the Vietnam war.
“We had one person, a couple decades ago, try to bomb a plane with a shoe bomb and ever since, we’ve had to take our shoes off,” said Hogg, referring to Richard Reid, the 2001 “shoe bomber”. “We’ve had thousands of people die of gun violence and we’ve basically done nothing at the federal level to substantially address it,” he said.
Responding to Maine’s Democratic congressman #Jared#Golden, who reversed his opposition to assault rifle bans after the shooting, Hogg said: “Far too often, we see politicians after these shootings on the left and right only come around to actually caring or saying ‘I should have done more’ after members of their own community have been killed.”
“What happened in Maine is horrible, but what happened in Maine in the form of individual shootings happens 🔸every day 🔸in this country and even more with the total number of people that were killed,” said Hogg.
“There are other Democrats out there who are in a similar position right now. 👉I would urge that representative to go and push those other Democrats to be better on the issue before this happens in their community,” he added.
#Jury reaches verdict in the case against former school security officer Scot Peterson, who is accused of failing to confront the gunman who killed 17 people in #Parkland, #Florida, in 2018
Via Cathy Russon:
NOT GUILTY on all counts - The jury in the #ParklandSchoolCopTrial returned a verdict of not guilty after 19.5 hours of deliberations. #ScotPeterson