Monday, February 19, 2018

GUNS IN AMERICA - Florida School Shootings


"School shootings like the one in Florida are no longer rare.  Are schools more prepared?" PBS NewsHour 2/14/2018

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SUMMARY:  Police swarmed a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon where a gunman shot and killed multiple people.  The suspect was arrested later off campus and was identified as a former student.  Judy Woodruff learns more from Terence Shepherd of WLRN News, Ronald Stephens of the National School Safety Center, and Broward County commissioner Michael Udine.




"Florida school grieves deadly shooting by teen suspect with troubled past" PBS NewsHour 2/15/2018

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SUMMARY:  A routine day turned into terror at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday.  Authorities say 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz has confessed to killing 17 people, and charged him with premeditated murder, as a clearer picture emerged of the deeply troubled young man and his motive.  Special correspondent Steve Mort of Feature Story News joins Judy Woodruff for an update.




"Shootings are terrorizing America.  There are real ways to stop them" PBS NewsHour 2/15/2018

I can not remain silent, the NRA's solution is to put MORE guns in schools. #StandAgainstNRA

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SUMMARY:  There have been so many deadly mass shootings in America that one could easily feel powerless in stopping them.  What is the way forward?  Judy Woodruff talks to Kristina Anderson of the Koshka Foundation for Safe Schools, Robert Draper of The New York Times Magazine, Daniel Webster of Johns Hopkins University, and Katherine Newman of the University of Massachusetts.




"The Florida school shooting, in students’ own words" PBS NewsHour 2/15/2018

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SUMMARY:  As Parkland, Florida, mourns a school shooting that left 17 dead, we listen to the voices of those who experienced the tragedy firsthand.




"The lives we lost in Parkland, Florida" PBS NewsHour 2/16/2018

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SUMMARY:  Funeral services began Friday for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.  We remember each of the 17 people killed on Wednesday, including the teachers who helped save students’ lives.

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