https://www.thedailybeast.com/cops-teacher-in-custody-after-shots-fired-at-dalton-georgia-high-school

News is still unfolding....
Dalton Police Department Tweet:
New update:
UPDATE: The teacher involved in this morning’s incident is Jesse Randall Davidson, 53, social studies teacher. Also serves as play by play voice of the Dalton football team.

UPDATE: The subject is IN CUSTODY
UPDATE: Students are being taken to the Nw GA Trade and Convention Center. Parents should rendezvous with their students there.
Dalton Police officers are on scene at Dalton High School responding a report of shots fired. At the time, there is a barricaded subject in a classroom. Investigators believe it is a teacher. NO CHILDREN. HAVE BEEN INJURED. NO CHILDREN ARE IN DANGER. The area inside the school has been evacuated and there are no students believed to be in the school at this time. The school is locked down. DPD and Georgia State Patrol are responding.
PARENTS DO NOT COME TO DALTON HIGH. Students will be taken to the Northwest Georgia Trade Center. Parents should go there.

Turned on the news to see they are covering the funeral of Billy Graham - I noticed that Trumpy, Pence, McConnell, Sessions and Paul Ryan are all there together in one room. Amazing it didn't just burst into flames from all the evil. It was enough to make me shudder.

I guess this move will buy his silence as to exactly what he & trump team did with the Russians during the last campaign. Although Pascale insists that "I am unaware of any Russian involvement in the digital and data operations of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign." (Read more)


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/27/trump-names-campaign-manager-for-2020-reelection-bid.html

Trump campaign uses image of Fla. shooting survivor Maddy Wilford (17) in email asking for donations. President Trump’s reelection campaign on Saturday used an image of a survivor of the recent Florida school shooting in an email asking for donations from its supporters. (Read more)
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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/375535-trump-campaign-uses-image-of-florida-shooting-survivor-in-email-asking-for

She writes in today's New York Times:

"So you’d think that the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, would be a natural fit. It once was. But on Saturday, after speaking to this year’s gathering, I had to be escorted from the premises by several guards who seemed genuinely concerned for my safety.

What happened to me at CPAC is the perfect illustration of the collective experience of a whole swath of conservatives since Donald Trump became the Republican nominee. We built and organized this party — but now we’re made to feel like interlopers.

I’d been dreading it for days, but when it came, I almost welcomed it. There is nothing more freeing than telling the truth. And it must be done, again and again, by those of us who refuse to be absorbed into this brainless, sinister, clownish thing called Trumpism, by those of us who refuse to overlook the fools, frauds and fascists attempting to glide along in his slipstream into respectability."
(Read more)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/opinion/im-glad-i-got-booed-at-cpac.html

"The NRA partners with dozens of businesses to spread its pro-gun message and provide discounts to its members, who number 5 million, according to the group. But this week, some companies have begun to jump ship. The following companies, however, have not indicated that they plan to sever ties with the gun-rights group" (read more)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/companies-sticking-by-the-nra_us_5a903e4be4b01e9e56bb57af

His tweet to the students:

"Young people have helped lead all our great movements. How inspiring to see it again in so many smart, fearless students standing up for their right to be safe; marching and organizing to remake the world as it should be. We've been waiting for you. And we've got your backs."

Wow. Now, that's a real president.

"I am normally interested in compromise. Not this time. I cannot imagine a bill that would make a difference that the NRA supports. We don't need to cut a deal with them, we need to beat them!"

I agree with him. The NRA has drawn a line and there is no compromise anywhere, so evident at CPAC

"You are such a psychopath that you have to make even the death of 17 children about you. America will regret the day you were ever born."
Arizona representative Ruben Gallego says this to trump and more...

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/you-are-such-a-psychopath-1164577347680
(This is from a few days ago, not sure how I missed it)

Very sad, all these funerals and memorials today across the county for the MSD students in Parkland. The campus is closed for classes today but there are so many people there along the fence with flowers...

The local news interviewed a rep from the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence (Robert Bowers Disney) who said "Every group of victims handle it differently and I am just so proud of what these kids are doing, I mean they are picking up and leading where our generation has failed, so for the first time in a very long time, I feel like we might actually get somewhere."

I hope with everything in my heart, that he is right - that this time we might actually get somewhere.