But the gun owners are the scared snowflakes

The Education Department reports that roughly 50 million children attend public schools for roughly 180 days per year. Since Columbine, approximately 200 public school students have been shot to death while school was in session, including the recent slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (and a shooting in Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday that police called accidental that left one student dead). That means the statistical likelihood of any given public school student being killed by a gun, in school, on any given day since 1999 was roughly 1 in 614 million. And since the 1990s, shootings at schools have been getting less common.

The chance of a child being shot and killed in a public school is extraordinarily low. Not zero — no risk is. But it’s far lower than many people assume, especially in the glare of heart-wrenching news coverage after an event like Parkland. And it’s far lower than almost any other mortality risk a kid faces, including traveling to and from school, catching a potentially deadly disease while in school or suffering a life-threatening injury playing interscholastic sports.

There is the German flag and then there is the Nazi flag, two different things.

heck fucking Nazis have a right to fly the Nazi flag, but it tells me that they are fucking morons and people who are not fit to be a part of civilized society.

A child of Cuban refugees flying the flag that represents Castro's regime would be like me flying the flag of the Czars after my family had fled pogroms in 1905. I think this would be a very fair and accurate analogy for me to make as the scenarios are comparable. In fact, the Cuban flag would be worse as people still suffer under that flag.

Maybe the flag represents her ancestors struggle?

I dont think she is purposely honoring the way of life in Cuba, but who knows.

If I had to guess, I'm gonna say she doesn't know either.

Here is the official explanation...

https://twitter.com/RosLehtinen/status/ ... 8316707840



Seems like a non story. The story is, she wants to take away people's guns. Doesn't matter what she's wearing.

If I had to guess, I'm gonna say she doesn't know either.

Fucking luuuullll.

But the gun owners are the scared snowflakes

The Education Department reports that roughly 50 million children attend public schools for roughly 180 days per year. Since Columbine, approximately 200 public school students have been shot to death while school was in session, including the recent slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (and a shooting in Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday that police called accidental that left one student dead). That means the statistical likelihood of any given public school student being killed by a gun, in school, on any given day since 1999 was roughly 1 in 614 million. And since the 1990s, shootings at schools have been getting less common.

The chance of a child being shot and killed in a public school is extraordinarily low. Not zero — no risk is. But it’s far lower than many people assume, especially in the glare of heart-wrenching news coverage after an event like Parkland. And it’s far lower than almost any other mortality risk a kid faces, including traveling to and from school, catching a potentially deadly disease while in school or suffering a life-threatening injury playing interscholastic sports.

Have you ever been to Miami? The Cuban flag is everywhere. Surely they can support their people without supporting a suppressive regime.

Of course they can. I really mean that.

The Venn diagram of people who are having a hissy fit over her patch and the people who loudly support the right to fly the Confederate flag is amusing.

Wearing a Cuban flag: Bad
Having such strong ties to the Russian freely elected dictator that an investigation is taking place about those ties and the President: Not bad.

False equilavalencies: even not badder.

It isn't a false equivalency. Our President is connected far more to Putin than this person is connected to Castro.

Yeah but Trump!

Hey, remember that time I made the point that being a truck driver was more likely to get you killed than being a cop, and you made a big joke about it even though it was literally a fact?

Well, enjoy a year of "Football is more dangerous than school shootings!". I just hope it doesn't trigger WaitingForRuffcorn too.