“ never mind that literally no other country has this problem on anything close to this scale”

If I owned a gun, I’d already have used it on myself. On my last psych hospitalization, they had me sign a paper acknowledging that I could no longer legally purchase a gun in California...you know kinda like the Obama-era legislation trump struck down. I could probably drive a few hours and buy a gun no problems in…

You’re probably a troll, but fuck it and fuck you. I’m on the second floor of an inside hallway in a school surrounded by heavy wrought iron fence. You think I don’t fucking know we’re sitting ducks? But going outside and being visible is riskier than sitting in a dark classroom behind several doors. What we do is…

Maybe, just maybe, if the kids lead efforts this time it could be different...

I’m a high school teacher. On Thursday we had a scheduled lock-down drill. After this shooting, I took it upon myself to explain to my kids how very real and necessary the lock-down drills are to keeping them safe. I had to coach them on the safest places in the classroom to hide so they wouldn’t be seen from the…

I admire her beyond words, but I can’t be the only one who is afraid of what this spotlight is going to do to her young life. She’s been through so much already, and I shudder to think of the trolls and conspiracy obsessed gun nuts turning their attention on to her - not to mention your fibreglass carpet headed, …

Man... between her and some of her classmates on Twitter burning things down... it is so great. There are some strong people in this upcoming generation and I can’t wait to see them change the world.

The event happened in South Florida who has consistently been blue (which means most likely there parents didn’t vote for Republicans). North Florida is very red and consistently vote republican. Orlando area is the toss up or battleground. Many times South Florida Democratic voting citizenry  can not overcome the…

She was AMAZING.

I’ll be trying to spread the words of these wonderful young students. I don’t have kids in school but I have a sister-in law who has tenure at my local high school. I’ll be seeing her tomorrow at my nephew’s birthday party. I’m going to ask her about the walkout that seems to be gaining some traction, her role as a…

It’s going to be refreshing to watch these kids VOTE from now on. Watch out Marco Rubio, you fraud. And all the rest of the corporate prostitutes in Washington and the state houses. Watch how they take notice who has paid you off.

This generation is going to burn down the NRA and they are going to do it with Social Media.

This will probably languish in the grays, but just wanted to say how grateful I am that these discussions and conversations are here. I don’t comment too often, but I’ve been having the hardest time dealing with the sadness and anger and anxiety from all this today—it’s overwhelming and I can’t get myself to be the…

“Each station, both local and national, censored the cursing of terrified teenagers, too much reality, apparently, for the nightly news.”

Republican in the front, skinhead in the back.

Ha, this is the best thing I’ve read in like a week, and as my nomenclature indicts I read quite a bit so that is saying something!

After taxes my dad got a lot less than 4 million, but still a lot of money. He paid off mine and my sister’s student loans, which were about a 100 grand each and paid off my parent’s house. My family is working class, having that money allowed my parents to not have to worry paycheck to paycheck but my extended family…

Congrats to the Orlando PD who followed up on the lead. Most places would have blown off a warning about harm from Mike Hunt as a crank call.

I don’t have time to read this right now but i suggest listening to “the problem we all live with” from this american life. It shows white women still defending segregation under the guise of safety.

I absolutely agree with you. I often do speak up about my addiction here because I do want people to understand it better. People might be sick of me talking about it, but it’s something I care deeply about, along with our criminal justice system, which is all related in our ridiculous war on drugs.