Oh I’m SO SORRY we have exasperated you.

We aren’t all toting guns. Lots of us don’t own guns nor do we ever want to use guns. The gun owners I know are responsible and are as horrified as the rest of us over the increasing school shootings.

Gee, so you go on sites invented by Americans and based in America and get pissed at the American content? What a shock!

>I cannot go on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, any news site, TV >channels, Jez, etc. etc. without being confronted with American media >and American news. It’s inescapable.

The best way to describe what I feel is like... having a friend complain over and over and over again about something, but then doing abso-fucking-lutely nothing about it, only to come back and complain about it some more.

It’d be nice if there were some kind of standard permission and reimbursement framework for images and videos posted to twitter during major events like this so news stations wouldn’t have to ask for rebroadcast and usage rights; they’d just use it and pony up later, or something, I don’t know.

Hot take. Just go somewhere else, your viewpoint isn’t helpful.

So the people who are horrified and trying to do something about it are supposed to...just pretend it’s not happening until the country as a whole magically reaches a consensus? That doesn’t sound like a solution.

Thanks to gerrymandering, there’s honestly not a lot half the country can do about it. We voted for Hillary over Trump; Trump gets elected. I’m in a red state, and we vote in our local elections, but somehow the Republicans just keep winning (because of gerrymandering). A lot of us would love to do something, but…

Not to mention, there are police, board members, a whole host of adult professionals whose job is to interact with members of the media in these situations. It’s completely inappropriate to turn to students; if you desperately want a witness account, turn to a teacher or administrator, or literally ANY ACTUAL ADULT…

“You know what we need in this situation instead of reformed veteran care - more guns, and shittier, low paying jobs at the school budget’s expense.”

‘I was busy with projects and homework. I’m a student, not a president.’

Really amazed at Aidan’s self-awareness and composure for a 14 year old, considering he nearly died this morning and now his life is under intense media pressure and exposure.

The only way I can think of is to prevent the kid from ever getting his hands on a gun in the first place.

This school has them and has drills. But at the end of the day if someone comes in with a gun and starts shooting...what can you do? The guy who planned it had it figured out. He pulled the fire alarm. As the students filed out...he picked them off.

Sadly, I think they already are commonplace in most schools.

Only a matter of time till shooting drills are added to school routine just like fire drills.

As much as I like to shit on teenagers on this site, the kids are alright. It’s the adults that are failing us.

Journalists do important work. But anyone hounding a child (because teenagers are still children) after such a traumatic experience for comment or an interview or image permissions is a piece of shit. Anyone doing this while the event is actively continuing needs to take a real look at their life and wonder how they…

Do not know if this is true, but I read yesterday, that kids from Marjory Stoneman High were tweeting as the shooting and lock down was going on. And kids from other high schools with past shootings were replying to them telling them what to do - telling them places they had hid to survive, how they got out of their…