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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a bill on Friday allowing juries to recommend the death penalty in capital cases on an 8-4 vote, a move spurred by the less-than-unanimous vote that led to the Parkland school shooter being sentenced to life in prison.

The state's Republican-led House of Representatives approved the measure with an 80-30 vote on Thursday, following the Republican-controlled state Senate's approval in March.

If the Republican Governor signs the bill into law, Florida prosecutors trying capital felony cases would need to convince only two-thirds of the 12-member jury that someone who is convicted deserves the death penalty, rather than a unanimous decision by a jury.

The change only affects the penalty phase of capital trials. It would have no effect on the requirement for a jury's unanimous vote to convict a defendant.

DeSantis has pushed for the legislation since October when he said he was "very disappointed" after a jury could not come to a unanimous decision on giving a death sentence to Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018.

Three jurors voted to spare Cruz, and by default his sentence was life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

If the bill becomes law, Florida would join Alabama as the only states where a unanimous jury decision is not required, the center noted.

Tony Montalto, whose daughter Gina was killed in the Parkland shooting, has been pushing for Florida lawmakers to change the jury requirement.

"Because of the jury's incorrect decision ... the victims, my beautiful daughter, her 13 classmates and her three teachers did not get the justice that they deserve," Montalto said during an interview on WPLG, an ABC affiliate in South Florida, in March.

DeSantis, widely thought to be weighing a 2024 presidential campaign, has accelerated efforts to build his national profile, especially around crime and justice issues. In February, he traveled to New York, Chicago and Philadelphia to speak to law enforcement groups on criminal justice matters.

Legal and ethical questions have swirled around capital punishment in the United States in recent years as states have found it difficult to procure drugs to carry out the death penalty through lethal injections. Several executions have been botched in recent years.

In 2017, Florida passed a law that required death penalties to be imposed only after a unanimous recommendation by a jury.

The law came after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an earlier state law, saying it unconstitutionally let judges determine the facts that would lead to a death sentence, rather than juries.

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whenweallvote · 2 months

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Today marks six years since the tragic mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

As we honor the 17 Parkland victims and send love to their families today, we also mourn for all lives lost and forever changed by gun violence since — including everyone impacted by the shooting at the SuperBowl Parade JUST a few hours ago.

Don't let ANYONE tell you there's nothing to be done about gun violence. It’s up to the politicians WE elect to propose and enact critical gun safety measures, and other bills to protect our children and communities.

Our Vote is Our Voice. Make sure you, your friends, and your family members are all registered to vote today at weall.vote/register.

#gun violence #msdstrong #marjory stoneman douglas #msd high school #parkland florida #vote #register to vote #mass shooting #superbowl parade

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actual-sleeping-beauty · 1 year

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i would love to never see that gifset of carlos with the guns again. sorry like. perhaps i am simply too traumatized by the gun violence that has haunted my literal entire existence on this earth but. no.

#also i'm not kidding #i am younger than columbine #i was in the fifth grade when twenty elementary schoolers were killed at sandy hook #when i was a sophomore in high school two kids were killed by a fifteen year old in marshall county kentucky #the shooter called his mom and said there was a shooting and he was scared #he murdered his classmates with a poorly stored gun he brought from home #a month later 17 kids were murdered at marjory stoneman douglas high school #the shooter pulled a fire alarm #a couple months later an unscheduled fire alarm went off at my school #all of us sat there on the third floor of a possibly on fire building for a full forty seconds before evacuating #eventually the front office came over the intercom to tell us to evacuate #so forgive me for not thinking that carlos shooting a guy is cool or hot #tw gun violence #tw school shooting #just to be safe #y'all feel free to interact with this post but i'm turning reblogs off because i am not trying to start shit

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jazsparklez · 9 months

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Hey everyone, I’ve been away from tumblr for a really long time and have decided I will not be posting anything on here very often however I will still be active and replying to any messages you would like to send me :) I’m a member of the TCC and would be super happy to talk about it with anybody who is also interested <3

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kp777 · 1 year

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By Mychael Schnell

The Hill

May 8, 2023

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) asked Monday that a congressional field hearing focused on red flag laws be held in Parkland, Fla., where such provisions were enacted in 2018 after the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The request — made to House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — came days after a gunman fatally shot eight people at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas.

“Guns have become the #1 killer of children. Parents worry as they send their kids to school, to the mall, or the movies. It’s a fear all parents live with. Public places once considered safe are now targets for gun violence,” Moskowitz, a member of the Oversight Committee, wrote in a letter to Comer and Jordan.

“I request that the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and House Judiciary Committee hold a field hearing in Parkland, Florida, to learn about the success of ‘red flag laws,’” he added.

In March 2018, the Florida legislature passed and then-Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a gun control bill into law that, among other provisions, instituted so-called “red flag laws,” which authorized law enforcement officers to request a “risk protection order.” The order would “prevent persons who are at high risk of harming themselves or others from accessing firearms or ammunition.”

The law also raised the minimum age to buy a firearm from 18 to 21, imposed a three-day waiting period for most long gun purchases, allowed certain trained school employees to have concealed handguns on them while on school campuses, and established new programs focused on mental health for schools.

The GOP-led Florida legislature approved the measure less than two months after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in which 17 students and staff members were killed. Moskowitz — who is an alum of the school — was serving in the Florida state legislature when the gun control bill passed.

The Republican legislators and governor backed the measure despite strong opposition from the National Rifle Association.

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filosofablogger · 1 year

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HOW. MANY. MORE. ???????????

Painting on iconic rock at Michigan State University https://www.gunviolencearchive.org You ask when I’m going to stop writing about guns and gun violence? When somebody finally DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

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#Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School #Michigan State University #Sandy Hook shootings #Uvalde Texas school shooting

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printedword · 1 year

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Burgundy-colored T-shirts [the color shirt worn by the shooter] make me uncomfortable and he used to be so understanding he stopped wearing it around me. That person is completely gone and I miss him so fucking much.

I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax. — Vice News

#parkland shooting #school shootings #qanon #stoneman douglas high school shooting #marjory stoneman douglas high school #us politics #words

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deborahdeshoftim5779 · 2 years

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Once again, the gunman who murdered 4 innocent people at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, purchased his AR-15 legally, supplemented by a semi-automatic pistol from a pawnshop bought days before. You only have to look at the gunman’s mugshot and the insane reason he gave for murdering Dr. Phillips to ask yourself why anyone would sell him a weapon.

The murderer who killed 19 children and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas, also bought his AR-15 rifles legally. Many other mass shooters have obtained their weapons legally; the murderer in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting was able to access weapons despite being known to police long before he murdered 17 students.

So there’s no point complaining about criminals having access to black market weapons, when they do pretty well obtaining rifles legally, no questions asked. Assault rifles need to be banned again (and stay banned), universal background checks should be passed, nobody with a history of assault, domestic violence or mental illness should have access to a firearm (the majority of firearms deaths are still suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive), and age limits for purchase should be raised.

There’s no point complaining about family breakdown, social isolation, bullying, mental illness, drugs, video games, and so on until the simplest and most obvious problem is solved: lax gun laws that enable criminals and leave the population in constant fear.

Other factors are important, especially mental illness and drug use. However, someone with a serious mental illness or a drug problem does not automatically become a threat to innocent lives unless they have access to weapons. So it is obvious that such access should be restricted, and, where necessary, removed.

Between the Robb Elementary School shooting and the Saint Francis shooting, 156 Americans died over the Memorial Day weekend in various shootings. Every day that we have to read about such senseless deaths is a day of shame for the politicians, lobbyists, and general fanatics who refuse to stop this carnage.

Other countries have gun owners, but when such a tragedy occurs, the government acts quickly and the chances of dying in such a massacre likewise decreases. Yet we also have problems with mental health, drug use, and so on.

The United States, and other countries like Russia, stands out for its jaw-dropping inability to control this problem, despite the number of body bags piling up around the country, and despite majority support among Americans for stricter gun control laws.

At this point, I think we need to increase international outcry against the American government on grounds of international human rights law. Surely a patent refusal to clamp down on gun crime violates the right to life and safety? Time for the United Nations to push this issue.

#stop gun crime #stop gun violence #mass shooting #tulsa hospital shooting #saint francis shooting #uvalde shooting #robb elementary school #marjory stoneman douglas high school #march for our lives #united states #gun crime america #russia #memorial day #stop mass shootings #united nations

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k3mistryproductions · 2 years

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K3mistry News Brief 📰

The Only Way to Stop a Bad Guy

The following speaks on the “good guys with a gun” narrative.

Narrated by: J. Stokes

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gwydionmisha · 2 years

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#Florida #Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School #Parkland Shooting #Mass Shootings #News

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yamimichi · 10 months

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#scot peterson #marjory stoneman douglas high school #parkland school shooting #acquitted #this is bullshit

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designingmonkey · 10 months

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I bet officer Scot Peterson wore that patch, took “warrior” training i.e. larp bs. Hey Scot, this video applies to you too

#parkland #parkland Florida #marjory stoneman douglas high school #school shooting #police #Youtube

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reportwire · 2 years

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Watch Live: Closing arguments begin in the penalty trial of the Parkland school shooter

Warning: This video may contain strong language and violent content that some may find disturbing. Closing arguments began Tuesday in the penalty trial of the man who has admitted to one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings. Seventeen people were killed and 17 others wounded in the Feb. 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The seven-man, five-woman…

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alphabetsoup-blogposts · 2 years

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Public defender’s opening speech:

“You’ll hear that one day he wants to live and one day he wants to die, and you will also hear that throughout his life he has had obsessions ... videogames, guns, exercise, bowel movements, vegan diets. And most recently, demons and Satan.

“And you will hear that with an atomic fireball candy, he’ll write on his cell wall ‘666’. Those are the things he does in isolation.

“You’ll hear that he writes disturbing things, like a school shooter manifesto. Horrible. We’re not hiding that from you. But his brain is broken. He’s a damaged human being and that’s why these things happened.”

#parkland #tragedy #Cruz defence #shooting #marjory stoneman douglas high school

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filosofablogger · 2 months

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Yesterday marked exactly six years since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and school staff were shot and killed, and 17 more were wounded. Tuesday was the one-year anniversary of the deadly mass shooting at Michigan State University, where three students were shot and killed and five others wounded. Yesterday in Atlanta, four…

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