Up until this article, I didn’t know about the massacre that happened in Tulsa. How is it that I a black man living in the south didn’t know of this... then I remembered... they owned the schools... they owned the media... they owned the history... as a child we are not taught the full truth of the plight of African…

Well written. That’s a fascinating choice by Joe.

CPR can actually accelerate the blood loss if someone has a massive head or chest or abdomen wound. Maybe Santorum just wants them all dead?

I can’t believe it either. A lot of these students (and survivors of previous shootings) saw their friends and teachers die horribly in front of their eyes, but the GOP don’t believe the students would want gun control so others don’t go through this??

Not exactly related but: I hail from the middle of the USA and recently started working in customer service in NYC, and the difference is staggering. My whole training week I could not get over how rude my coworkers (and boss!) were allowed to be to customers; it was amazing. Back in the Midwest I had to essentially…

The Guardian just updated its original report with evidence of the incident in question.

Every time we think we’ve seen the absolute worst of these conservatives, they find new ways to be horrific. They’re attacking teenagers who survived a mass murder. I can’t even comprehend it. They are attacking teenagers who survived a mass murder. It’s breathtaking. They have no God damned souls. Their voters are…

It’s infuriatingly telling that he regards American citizens lobbying their elected representatives to enact laws on behalf of their constituency as “looking to someone else solve their problem.” That’s literally the entire point of having elected representatives.

Very true. I’d say it’s more important to learn how to aid someone who’s choking than how to do CPR, as the one has a lot higher success rate than the other. Beyond that, we need more accessible defibrillators, because when’s someone heart is stopped, THAT is what you need, not CPR. Some years back, a patron at the…

To be clear, you can perform CPR on children, you just have to be a little gentler about it with small ones. That said, in shootings like the Parkland shooting, the injuries you worry about are massive internal and external bleeding and major damage to organs, and you’re absolutely correct that CPR won’t do jackshit…

Exactly.

Get out of here with your logic and reasoning.

Also, who is going to stop and perform CPR on a bleeding person when THEY ARE ALSO RUNNING FROM A GUNMAN?

I think I’d start with the thoughts and prayers first. Several minutes of thoughts and prayers. Maybe an hour or so, even.

It’s absolutely his fault. We all get the face we deserve by the time we’re around 50 or so. Santorum’s had almost 60 years of being a condescending, self-serving prick. He wasn’t born with that face—he’s spent a lifetime cultivating it.

I gotta go along with retired Supreme Court Justice Stevens. The 2nd amendment was written and implemented into law hundreds of years ago and is no longer relevant. Instead, the NRA has made it into something that it was never meant to be. Time to amend. These poor kids. They are the bravest young adults I have ever…

CPR isn’t even super effective. And even I, a non-medical professional, knew that. Because I read sometimes. Rick Santorum is an intellectually incurious dolt.

It’s not his fault, really, but Rick Santorum is the smarmiest-looking dude this side of Joel Osteen. He could be the intellectual love child of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Pope Francis and I’d still want to cold-cock him just for looking the way he does.