"This Could Be Big"

General General Discussion
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“This could be big. This could be big.”–quoting Rush Limbaugh on his radio show just now.

He’s talking about a school rally on behalf of a victim of a school shooting. Several students walked out when it turned into a gun control rally.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/09/students-walk-out-school-shooting-vigil-turns-gun-control-rally/

Hundreds of Colorado’s STEM School Highlands Ranch walked out of the vigil for Tuesday’s shooting victims citing gun control politicization.

The Federalist reported:

Colorado students walked out of an event billed as a vigil for Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old killed in a shooting at his school on Tuesday, when prominent speakers attempted to turn it into a rally for gun control. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado) each took a turn calling for gun control at the Douglas County event before students streamed out in protest.

Although the event was advertised as a vigil for Castillo, it was “sponsored by the gun control groups Brady’s Team Enough and March for Our Lives.” USA Today reported that “hundreds of students from the STEM School stormed out.” And while leaving they yelled, “This is not for us,” “Political stunt,” and “We are people, not a statement.”

My take: Somebody call David Hogg. He’d shit a kidney over this.:lol: :jester:

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By all accounts, Hogg wouldn’t amount to a dog turd on the bottom of Kendrick Castillo’s shoe.

Bravo Zulu Kendrick. We wish you fair winds and following seas on your voyage to Valhalla.

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Just when I think the ComDems cannot go any lower, they prove me wrong.

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Seems there might be hope for this generation after all…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/05/09/not-statistic-students-walk-out-colorado-shooting-vigil-condemn-politics-press/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.afc446edb563

‘Not a statistic’: Students walk out of Colorado shooting vigil to condemn politics and press

By Deanna Paul May 9 at 1:15 PM
[i]A vigil commemorating the victims of the STEM school shooting in Colorado ended in protest Wednesday evening after students said they refused to be used as pawns to promote gun control.

Hundreds attended the vigil — students, teachers, activists and elected officials — to honor Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old who was fatally shot Tuesday at the STEM School Highlands Ranch in suburban Denver. But Castillo’s classmates were moved to protest after two invitees, Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.) and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), spoke. Many of the teenagers at the vigil — at the nearby Highlands Ranch High School — perceived the speeches as politicizing their trauma when they wanted their own voices heard.

Students stood and stormed out. Some clapped and united in chants, deriding what they saw as a “political stunt.” The school parking lot quickly filled with teenagers, cursing at the press and holding backlit cellphones in the air.

“What happened at STEM is awful, but it’s not a statistic. We can’t be used for a reason for gun control. We are people, not a statement,” one student wearing a yellow Spartans shirt said in video aired by 9News.

Another teenager voiced similar frustrations, saying: “I thought this was about us, not about politics.”

Earlier Wednesday, in the wake of the STEM shooting, both Colorado politicians posted messages on Twitter endorsing changes to gun laws.

“We must pass common-sense gun violence laws,” Crow wrote.

“Our children deserve to live in a world where they don’t fear going to school,” Bennet tweeted, echoing the sentiment. “ … Something has to change.”

Castillo was killed three days before graduation. A bullet hit the high school senior as he tried to tackle the shooter. Eight other students were injured when two people opened fire. According to police, one of the shooters was 18-year-old Devon Erickson and the other was a younger student who has not been identified, because she is a juvenile.

The gathering at Highlands Ranch High, one of several held Wednesday, was organized by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

“We are here to lift up the voices of victims and survivors,” a statement released by the Brady Center said Wednesday. “We are deeply sorry any part of this vigil did not provide the support, caring and sense of community we sought to foster and facilitate.”

The same students regathered in the school gymnasium later Wednesday evening and completed Castillo’s commemoration.

One student, in a moment captured by 9News, addressed the reconvened crowd and said: “We wanted Kendrick to be mourned. We wanted all of you to join us in that mourning. But that was not allowed here.”

“We’re back now to tell you we love Kendrick and we love all of the survivors,” he said.[/i]

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How do you “lift them up” by standing on their corpses? :mad:

To be fair, I don’t want pro-gun advocates standing on his corpse either. Anything beyond “He is a hero and should receive the highest honors” is too much. No ifs, ands or buts, just that and no mention of your personal or paid professional stance. There’s a time and place for all that and it’s not while speaking of this brave young man. :frowning:

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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/05/09/stem-students-storm-out-chant-mental-health-when-gun-control-activist-politicians-hijack-vigil-for-victims-753054

After walking out on her politicized speech, the students reportedly chanted “mental health,” held their own vigil outside and then later returned to the auditorium to blast Democrats and their allies with Moms Demand Action for disrespecting them.

The “mental health” chants were likely in reference to the indisputable fact that improved mental health services would do far more to stop school shootings than gun laws.

The next morning some in the media rushed to try and defend Moms Demand Action.

“I feel terrible. They did not feel represented. I get it,” The Daily Beast, a radically far-left outlet, quoted Reeves as saying. “This was put together in such a short time. I know they did their best. Emotions are raw and sad. They are grieving. They need to express their feelings. They need to be together. I am hoping their school can help facilitate that conversation beyond this week.”

The Daily Beast’s piece didn’t contain a single from quote the students themselves …

Also note her lack of an apology.

Team Enough, the Brady Campaign branch that reportedly organized the event, did at least take the time to issue a formal apology: “We are deeply sorry any part of this vigil did not provide the support, caring & sense of community we sought to foster and facilitate,” the group said.

And just to make this interesting:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/one-of-the-two-suspects-in-the-colorado-school-shooting-was-female-reportedly-transgender

One of the two suspects in the Colorado school shooting is female, reportedly transgender

https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/colorado-shooting-suspect-shared-anti-trump-post-on-facebook/

The 18-year-old accused in the fatal shooting at a Colorado charter school shared social media posts that were critical of President Trump and Christians, but heaped praise on former President Barack Obama.

My take: How come the shooters always seem to be lefty loons but conservatives get the blame?

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Two Satanist tranny’s shoot up a school, and the dems go after the gun laws.

Serves them right. Not saying the kids are GOP or NRA, but they are totally correct to go after the pols for their hijacking the rally for a true fallen hero.

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I hope this bullshit is burned in memories forever and they vote accordingly.

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If my kids corpse was barely room temperature and a buncha faggots started parading his corpse at some vain attempt at a political point; they would be demanding “Fist Control” most ricky rick.

People can have their opinions but you are dealing with kids and the dead. Not cool. Not tolerated. Do it on your own time and do it away from me.

Guns and death aren’t going away any time soon. And like it’s things like this that reveal Heathers to have been way ahead of its time in the whole sensationalism of tragedy.
Bored?
Pissed?
Want instant national attention?
Want to be MTV’s Cause of the Week?

Go shoot up a school.

That’s the message being sent and it is being sent intentionally.

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Maybe the answer is to start placing fire axes in the fire extinguisher cases with the extinguishers. First time one of these losers gets his head lopped off or split open like a dugout canoe…

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Pretty sad when the high schoolers had to put a stop to the bullshit because their parents are pussies and the administration was too busy fawning over the anti-gun “celebrities”

Andy

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My Son is in his early twenties, he informed me that there is a resurgence in conservative values in his age group and a lot of his friends voted for and will vote again for Trump.

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The boomer hate is real. These fatasses spent years talking about alternative lifestyles and sportfcking and now young folks are like “you know, having a home, a wife you actually like who hasn’t been with a million dudes, not being in eternal debt and not sucking is actually the cool thing to do”

A real conservatism not this “Republican” bullsheeeeyit. I honestly hate Republicans as much as if not more than Democrats because I am sick of people playing deal a meal with my tax money and individual liberties. I’m too old to care about the little pygmies in New Guinea and saving the whales and too young for AARP and Socialist Security. I’m not alone.

Who is speaking for me? Not Republicans and certainly not Democrats.

An excellent influx of uninoculated illiterates who refuse to speak English or fix their own countries isn’t doing me any favors. No immigration is not patriotic it’s BS. Screw these people.

I sometimes think Mormons have it right. Live in the middle of nowhere with harems, lotsa guns, breeding above replacement level, and being kinda exclusive and shunning the outside world.

Either close the borders or legalize reverse hordes and crucifixions.

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I have no artistic skills, but someone needs to draw a political cartoon of Bennett and Crow standing on the fallen, bloody body of Castillo. Even bettter, fighting for the microphone.

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Extended version of what happened.

I want to know who sent the STEM students out.

//youtu.be/hgFyqTab8_4

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Eek. That is scary. You are saying that these rallies are encouraging more school shootings because it brings attention to the shooters’ exploits. I want to disagree with you. I NEED to disagree with you. Trouble is…YOU’RE RIGHT.

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Pretty much exactly what he said.

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This was not your “normal” high school, it was a charter STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) school. Kudo’s to the students for having critical thinking skills, to bad the majority of schools in the country are now commie propaganda/brainwashing mills.

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Having Brady host the vigil would be like having the NRA host it. The adults should have known better. Brady has been known as an outspoken political lobby for decades, not an institution for grieving and comfort.

Someone in that admin wanted the political push and allowed these clowns to come. He/she should be identified as the one who also let the students down.

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I wouldn’t say that these vigils are leading to more shootings. Upholding the heroic actions of a student is far different than some pity party mixed with anti-gun rhetoric. Now maybe that is what it ended up being, but it was to honor Castillio.

Coolest Castillo since Miami Vice episode with Capt. Castillo and that huge revolver.

Going to look to see if Bennet or Crow have any events this weekend that I can show up with my kids and a banner that Reads “Go home, no dead kids to stand on here.”