From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   Once again, Trump addresses his simple comments to his simple audience:  the   
   deplorables.  The rest of us know he's one of those with mental issues.    
      
   Not wanting to irritate his NRA support and his radicals in the white    
   supremacists, he says this latest bloodbath - in one of his most supportive    
   states, Florida - was a case of 'mental health issues'.  Nope, Trump, it was    
   not.  It was another case of easy gun access for anyone in America who wants a   
   gun - crazy, sane or just seeking revenge.    
      
   And the midterms are gonna take out your gun-supporting senators and    
   governors.  Americans, feel their pain.  And know you have to step forward on    
   Tuesday, November 6, 2018.  And you have to take out each and every    
   NRA-supported member of the current Trump government.  You owe it to your    
   fellow Americans who are burying their kids this week.    
      
   Finding a solution to increasing mental health issue will take generations.    
   Taking the guns off our streets will take a single government's determination    
   and the country's voters to give them that support.  November 6, 2018.  Be    
   there.    
                                                                      
   ___________________________    
      
   Associated Press - Feb 16, 2018    
      
   'This is about guns': Student survivors of Florida shooting demand action on    
   U.S. gun laws    
      
   In the aftermath of a massacre, grief turns to anger as survivors demand    
   change from lawmakers    
   When the shots rang out at her Florida high school, Carly Novell hid in a    
   closet for safety — just like her grandfather did to escape a 1949 shooting    
   rampage in New Jersey.    
      
   The Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School student recounted her harrowing    
   two-hour ordeal in a tweet posted in the aftermath of a deadly massacre at the   
   Parkland school that claimed the lives of 17 people.    
      
   Nearly 70 years ago, Novell's grandfather, Charles Cohen, did the same, when    
   Howard Unruh gunned down 13 people, including Cohen's parents and grandmother   
   during what was later called his Walk of Death through Camden.    
      
   So when conservative television commentator Tomi Lahren took to Twitter with   
   calls to halt the debate over gun control in the wake of the shooting, it was   
   doubly personal for Novell.    
      
      
   'You weren't there. You don't know'    
      
   "You weren't there. You don't know how it felt," she said. "Guns give these    
   disgusting people the ability to kill other human beings. This is about guns,    
   and this is about all the people who had their life abruptly ended because of    
   guns."    
      
   But while Novell survived, 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff was not so lucky.    
      
   Her mother Lori Alhadeff's raw grief was on full display on live television    
   the evening after the shooting, when she called out U.S. President Donald    
   Trump with demands for gun reform.    
      
   "You say, 'What can you do?' You can stop the guns from getting into these    
   children's hands ...This is not fair to our families, that our children go to    
   school and have to get killed."    
      
   Former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, has been charged with 17 counts of    
   premeditated murder. On Thursday, he reportedly confessed he was responsible   
   for the deadly school shooting, telling police he brought more loaded   
   magazines to the school and kept them hidden in the backpack until he got on   
   campus.   
      
   As students began to flee, he said, he discarded his AR-15 rifle and a vest he    
   was wearing so he could blend in with the crowd.  Police recovered the rifle    
   and the vest.    
      
      
   'Hatred and evil'    
      
   Trump is in Florida, with visits to Broward Health North hospital and the    
   Broward County Sheriff's Office planned. He said Friday morning that residents    
   are "some of the bravest people on Earth — but whose lives have been totally    
   shattered."    
      
   Trump struck a solemn tone in a national address Thursday, describing a "scene   
   of terrible violence, hatred and evil," and promising to "tackle the difficult   
   issue of mental health." But on the issue of gun control, he remained silent.    
      
   Some of the teens pointed out the thousands in campaign contributions Trump   
   and Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio have taken from the National Rifle   
   Association.    
      
   A weeping 19-year-old Tyra Hemans held posters Thursday of her dead friends,   
   along with one that said, "ENOUGH NO GUNS #GunReformNow."    
      
   "I decided to make these signs so that when Donald Trump visits Parkland he    
   knows that this is what I want. I want Congress to understand he took 17 lives    
   from me yesterday.  My friend will literally never get to say 'I graduated   
   high    
   school,"' she said through tears.    
      
      
   Age limit didn't apply    
      
   It was just months after he turned 18 that Cruz went to a Florida gun store to    
   buy a weapon.  But there were limits on what he could purchase at his age.    
      
   Cruz wasn't old enough to buy any of the handguns at the store. But that age    
   limit doesn't apply for rifles, shotguns or the AR-15, the weapon that was    
   used in Wednesday's shooting.    
      
   Federal law requires someone to be at least 21 to buy a handgun from a    
   licensed dealer but only 18 in most places to buy a long gun. In some states   
   —    
   mostly rural places with a strong tradition of hunting — you can buy a rifle    
   at age 14 or 16.    
      
   That fact has revived the debate over age requirements for gun purchases in a    
   country where a patchwork of laws and culture of hunting in some rural states    
   often make it easier for teens to buy rifles than handguns.    
      
      
   'Whatever it takes'    
      
   For the survivors who spoke to CBC's Steven D'Souza, debating the issue is not    
   enough.    
      
   Emma Gonzales was in the school's auditorium when the bullets began flying in   
   what would, within just six minutes, turn out to be one of the nation's    
   deadliest school shootings.    
      
   "They say, 'You don't think about it until it happens' — I was always   
   thinking    
   about it," she said Friday. "And now that it's happened, there's nothing that    
   could have possibly made me angrier and more ready to do something.    
      
   "We're not going to just let the grief wash over us and then fade away. We're    
   going to do something about it," Gonzales said. "If this has to become the    
   poster child for fixing the gun problems in our community and nation, whatever   
   it takes."    
      
      
   'Maybe that's the turning point'    
      
   Leonor Munoz, who was holed up with Gonzales, is approaching the legal voting   
   age and says anyone against gun control won't be getting her vote.    
      
   "None of us will vote for anything that's pro-guns, because there's no way    
   that guns would have helped us in that situation," Munoz said.    
      
   "The kid had smoke bombs," she said of Cruz.    
      
      
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