Wisconsin teenager Duaa Ahmad, 17, helped around 100 of her fellow Oshkosh West High School students take shelter at the nearby mosque where she and her family worship after a school stabbing and shooting on Tuesday. The incident began when a 16-year-old student stabbed a law enforcement officer and the…
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Archived: Survivor of Parkland School Shooting Has More Twitter Followers than NRA
In just a couple of short weeks, a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., is using the power of social media to advocate for change. And she’s got more listeners than the National Rifle Association. Emma Gonzlez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, surpassed the NRA’s…
Archived: Gun Control Won't Happen Because of Profit-driven Racism
Students from the Florida high school where 17 people were shot to death are all over the news today, but history tells us that the public reaction to the most recent massacre will go away in a few weeks. This is why the NRA keeps quiet. The Parkview massacre is…
Archived: GOP Aide Fired for Calling Florida School Shooting Survivors Actors
A district secretary for a Republican state representative in Florida was fired Tuesday after spreading conspiracy theories about the state’s school shooting last week. Benjamin Kelly, former aide to state Rep. Shawn Harrison (R-Tampa), falsely claimed that two students who survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were…
Archived: Claims Florida School Shooter Is a White Nationalist Appear to be an Attention-Seeking Hoax
UPDATE: 2/20/18 Claims that the suspect in last week’s school shooting in Florida may have ties to a white supremacist group appear to be false, media outlets are now reporting. Jordan Jereb, the leader of white nationalist group Republic of Florida, reported to the Associated Press and the Anti-Defamation League…