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hueymahl

(2,415 posts)
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 04:29 PM Feb 2018

Deputies respond to active shooter at Florida high school

Source: NYPost

CBS 4 Miami texted with a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland — near Fort Lauderdale — who said they’re hiding in the closet.

“All of a sudden there was a really loud noise… people are crying in the closet,” the student wrote to CBS 4.

The outlet reported a number of people could be seen from their newscopter being loaded into ambulances on a stretcher.

Coral Springs police advised students and teachers in the locked-down school should remain barricaded until officers reach them.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/02/14/deputies-respond-to-reports-of-active-shooter-at-high-school/



There were 14 school shootings in January, 2018 (https://www.madisondodgeronline.com/opinion/2018/02/09/fourteen-school-shootings-have-happened-as-of-february-1st-2018/). I do not know how many have happened so far in February.

NRA: "But now is not the time to talk about school shootings" (said after every school shooting).
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Deputies respond to active shooter at Florida high school (Original Post) hueymahl Feb 2018 OP
Until we flipped the House and Senate djacq Feb 2018 #1
My friend's kids go to Parkland High School leftynyc Feb 2018 #2
YEah...southwest of Boca. titaniumsalute Feb 2018 #3
What would be said to be a perfect leftynyc Feb 2018 #7
I agree. I always loved driving through there to get to Coral Springs. titaniumsalute Feb 2018 #28
I was down there once leftynyc Feb 2018 #29
I have Facebook friends posting pictures of their friends deceased children titaniumsalute Feb 2018 #30
I'm not a parent and can't even leftynyc Feb 2018 #31
I don't allow fear to overwhelm me titaniumsalute Feb 2018 #32
I don't think acknowledging leftynyc Feb 2018 #33
School shootings - uniquely American crisis. Can we at least say that? Nope. Can't talk about it. Turn CO Blue Feb 2018 #4
As sad as it is... forgotmylogin Feb 2018 #6
20 to 50 orangecrush Feb 2018 #5
Broward County police responded with a TANK. . . Mazeltov Cocktail Feb 2018 #8
Pretty soon there'll be tanks at every school Wednesdays Feb 2018 #27
NOBODY PANIC. forgotmylogin Feb 2018 #9
they even cancelled the afternoon presser..... getagrip_already Feb 2018 #12
A normal President would welcome the quick opportunity... forgotmylogin Feb 2018 #13
executive time - he can't get away...... getagrip_already Feb 2018 #14
Gruh. forgotmylogin Feb 2018 #16
correction - a part time hourly employee.... getagrip_already Feb 2018 #18
bastard tweeted Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #20
and he probably couldn't be bothered to do it himself..... getagrip_already Feb 2018 #23
Where is a good old fashioned MontanaMama Feb 2018 #26
OT: ghost guns Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #10
UPDATE: Suspect in custody, one death brooklynite Feb 2018 #11
We can assume at least one thing here... durablend Feb 2018 #15
Cell phone video from inside the school...(warning: graphic audio) brooklynite Feb 2018 #17
damn, that is a lot of shots....... getagrip_already Feb 2018 #19
Oh my god those poor kids. Beaverhausen Feb 2018 #21
Welcome to the new normal Orange Free State Feb 2018 #22
POTUS and Congress will give thoughts and prayers Blue_Tires Feb 2018 #24
Call your CongressCritters noneof_theabove Feb 2018 #25
 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
2. My friend's kids go to Parkland High School
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 04:40 PM
Feb 2018

Just spoke to the mom and hers are find but other parent's are not able to reach their kids. Please keep them in your thoughts. As an aside, Parkland is much closer to Boca than Lauderdale.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
29. I was down there once
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:23 AM
Feb 2018

(I really don't care for Florida so I just wait until my friends come to NY) and we walked to that school from her house just as part of a long walk. I last heard from my friend last night around 8:30 when she texted and told me he daughter, although safe, was "wigging out".

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
30. I have Facebook friends posting pictures of their friends deceased children
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:28 AM
Feb 2018

As just can't look at them. My wife is a teacher. I have an 8th grader I just put on the bus. Ugg. This is s fucked up.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
31. I'm not a parent and can't even
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:31 AM
Feb 2018

imagine the fear you must have. Needless to say, things like this just didn't happen (at least I don't remember it happening) when I was in high school (mid 70s). I'm sure my parents never gave one thought to the scenario that happened yesterday, and 17 times before that just this year. And your wife - teachers shouldn't ever have to have "live shooter drills" - it's simply madness.

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
32. I don't allow fear to overwhelm me
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 08:40 AM
Feb 2018

But it is always a thought at this point. I was sitting in a rather cramped venue recently at an orchestra concert. In the middle of the set I had a random thought that someone could easily just walk in and start blowing people away. That had never happened before. I smashed the thought and moved on. But we have to think about this stuff I guess.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
33. I don't think acknowledging
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 11:09 AM
Feb 2018

the reality that we have a real problem with school shootings is allowing fear to overwhelm. It's just today's reality. Every year a friend and I to the Christmas tree at Lincoln Center thing in NYC, always a HUGE crowd there as well as the blocks leading up to it. It's not like you have to go through any security to walk our city streets so frankly, I'm surprised that we just take a deep breath and continue to do it. Then all the stuff going on at Madison Square Garden and all the other sports/concert arenas in the area. We can't stop living our lives but should fight with every breath we have that people don't ever consider this "normal".

forgotmylogin

(7,496 posts)
6. As sad as it is...
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 04:49 PM
Feb 2018

school shootings are 'Murican as the NRA. We need to just get used to it. Ain't nothin' nobody gonna do about it.

forgotmylogin

(7,496 posts)
9. NOBODY PANIC.
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 04:58 PM
Feb 2018

I just overheard from the TV in the other room that the President has sprung into action to offer his "thoughts and prayers".

He's on his knees that this buys them a few hours of non-Stormy Daniels coverage.

getagrip_already

(14,237 posts)
12. they even cancelled the afternoon presser.....
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 05:14 PM
Feb 2018

Cowards. They don't want to answer any more questions on kelly and porter, so they used this as an excuse.

What could possibly be so urgent at the white house over this shooting that the press sec'y couldn't be bothered to hold the briefing?

forgotmylogin

(7,496 posts)
13. A normal President would welcome the quick opportunity...
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 05:17 PM
Feb 2018

to say a few words live instead of via Twitter.

That's one of the President's jobs.

forgotmylogin

(7,496 posts)
16. Gruh.
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 05:22 PM
Feb 2018

We've got a fucking President who's an hourly employee...

Don't we get to fire those when there are too many notes-to-file?

getagrip_already

(14,237 posts)
18. correction - a part time hourly employee....
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 05:25 PM
Feb 2018

He doesn't clock in until 11:00 am, then he takes an hour for lunch at noon. He has executive time at 2:00 pm, and is done with his day by 4:00.

So that looks like a 3-4 hour day to me.

getagrip_already

(14,237 posts)
23. and he probably couldn't be bothered to do it himself.....
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 06:18 PM
Feb 2018

lots of these tweets come from social media guy, or from hick/sanders. He rarely tweets about anything not involving himself.

MontanaMama

(23,238 posts)
26. Where is a good old fashioned
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 08:01 PM
Feb 2018

lightening strike when you need one? The Dotard lying about praying ought to attract a little bolt from the heavens.

brooklynite

(93,846 posts)
11. UPDATE: Suspect in custody, one death
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 05:12 PM
Feb 2018

PARKLAND, Fla. - Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said the suspect in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is in custody.

BSO spokeswoman Keyla Concepcion said the SWAT team was called to a shooting at the school on Pine Island Road in Parkland.

Concepcion said there are reports of victims, but she didn't say how many.

Coral Springs Commissioner Dan Daley said he was told that at least one person is dead.

https://www.local10.com/news/crime/shooting-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school

Orange Free State

(611 posts)
22. Welcome to the new normal
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 06:13 PM
Feb 2018

It’s so common now I don’t even turn the TV on to watch the special report. How messed up is that?

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
24. POTUS and Congress will give thoughts and prayers
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 06:23 PM
Feb 2018

The NRA will have their people on all three shows tonight with the usual pre-emptive "WHY CAN'T THOSE FREEDOM-HATING LIBS WAIT FOR THE BLOOD TO DRY BEFORE POLITICIZING THIS??!!??"

Then the NRA will deliver the usual veiled threat to any congresscritter thinking about gun regulation, they'll float the usual "And that's why we need to arm all the teachers!" which will be debated the rest of the night, and sometime next week both congress and the state of Florida will actually **loosen** current gun control laws... Rinse and repeat

noneof_theabove

(410 posts)
25. Call your CongressCritters
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 07:57 PM
Feb 2018

and ask them if "today" is the day to talk about gun reform.

Asshats have done nothing for years, so don't expect much now.

HAMMER THEIR PHONES UNTIL THEY ACT ! !

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