Any time someone disagrees with the message, there is this ugly tendency to try to destroy the messenger. Emma Gonzalez isn’t going anywhere. We will be seeing a lot more of this talented, articulate young woman.
The far right had better start picking and choosing its enemies far more carefully. Emma might just prove to be unbeatable.
Washington (CNN)CNN commentator and former Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested students protesting for gun control legislation would be better served by taking CPR classes and preparing for active shooter scenarios.
“How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that,” Santorum said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”Santorum’s comments came a day after protesters assembled at March for Our Lives events in Washington and across the country to demand gun control legislation in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.Santorum dismissed the usefulness of “phony gun laws” and appeared to call on students and others to improve their communities and to prepare to respond to further shootings instead of calling for new laws.“They took action to ask someone to pass a law,” Santorum said. “They didn’t take action to say, ‘How do I, as an individual, deal with this problem? How am I going to do something about stopping bullying within my own community? What am I going to do to actually help respond to a shooter?’… Those are the kind of things where you can take it internally, and say, ‘Here’s how I’m going to deal with this. Here’s how I’m going to help the situation,’ instead of going and protesting and saying, ‘Oh, someone else needs to pass a law to protect me.'”
VA – Manassas – March For Our Lives
Sudley Manor Dr & Hwy 234 (Sudley Road)
| When: | Saturday, March 24, 12:00 PM |
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Too busy to go downtown but want to support the cause? Here’s your chance.
There was a lot of tree bowing last week for sure. I cowered for 2 nights, waiting for a tree to fall on my home.
Early Wednesday morning Prince William County School Board Chairman Ryan Sawyers resigned from his post, a week after he dropped out of the congressional race for the 1st district of Virginia.
What is going on? Sawyers stated he was resigning for personal and professional reasons. He posted the following letter to Vice Chairman Lillie Jessie on his Facebook page:
Sawyers has a reputation for engaging in personal warfare with those he dislikes. He is also known for suing people at the drop of a hat. His tenure as school board chairman has been contentious and riddled with dissension. I can’t imagine that many people are sorry to see him go. Perhaps Prince William County can get back to the business of educating students rather than engaging in one man’s personal battles.
