The Parkland Playbook Doesn't Work In Santa Fe

[oberliner]

Shortly after Friday’s massacre at Santa Fe High School in Texas, senior Bree Butler, 18, called out Sen. Ted Cruz and President Trump on Twitter. “As a [Santa Fe High School] student, all i can ask you to do is vote for gun reform,” she wrote. “you have the power to help prevent these things. thank you for your prayers, but we need action as well.”

Butler soon received a DM from Matt Dietsch, the chief strategist behind March for Our Lives and an alumnus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. She learned that a few other friends who fired off similar tweets were also talking to other nationally recognized MFOL leaders.

So her friend Kennedy Rodriguez, a Santa Fe High senior, turned it into a group chat with two other Santa Fe teens and Parkland leaders David Hogg, Emma González, Cameron Kasky, Jaclyn Corin, and Dietsch.

“She was my hero,” Butler told BuzzFeed News about González. “It’s insane she called me ‘my love’ today.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amberjamieson/santa-fe-shooting-parkland-emma-gonzalez?utm_term=.ooplJZjEA#.ra4kVDXze

[pangaia]

1. Republicanism is a disease. I just hope these poor kids learn it in time...

And the handful of Santa Fe students who are working with MFOL are doing so relatively quietly, out of respect for a town that values faith, community strength, and responsible firearm ownership — not demanding political action.

Oh, spare me, will ya.....

“I just hope everything goes back to normal,” Michael Valentin, 17, a Santa Fe senior, told BuzzFeed News after a church service on Sunday. “I don’t believe we need a lot of change.”

These kids need to get out of Texas once in a while.

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And Tyler Martin, a senior, 18, didn’t think any policy could stop a school shooting. “I’ve thought about this a lot even before Friday,” he told BuzzFeed News after a service at Arcadia First Baptist Church. “There’s nothing you can do to prevent it.”

Wanna bet?

Martin was particularly cautious about anything that might limit gun access. “You can’t blame the guns — it’s people who pull the trigger,” he said. “It falls back onto parents and keeping guns locked in a safe.” The shooter behind Friday's massacre obtained the guns from his father, who owned them legally.

Now WHERE have I heard that before?

[JI7]

3. I wonder what their thoughts on immigration is

[JI7]

2. What doesn't work ? They were able to prevent the shooting ?

[oberliner]

4. Did you read the article?

[kimbutgar]

5. It's Tex ass what do you expect?

[oberliner]

6. Texas could be going blue shortly

[kimbutgar]

7. I certainly hope so

I met Ann Richards in Texas once in the 90’s a guy I knew was on her staff. Texas had a great educational system, things were getting done to help people. The bush got in and messed up the state and turned it red. My friend was horrified how awful the state got in 3 years. I hope the good decent people get out and vote the Neanderthal rethugs out.