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The NY Daily News tweets it’s entire editorial, word for word.
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EDITORIAL | ALL-AMERICAN SHAMEMore than a dozen shot dead in a South Florida high school on Wednesday. Many more wounded by the gunman.Mourn though we do, mourn though we must, it is time to admit a painful fact: As a nation, we do not care. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/IYDaW6z5W1
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
If we cared, we would make at least an honest effort to fight the corrosive culture of violence that infects so many of us.To attack mental illness as the scourge it is. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/V9N9oFilcv
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
Most of all, we would try to change laws that, based on a delusional and suicidal interpretation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, let anyone wield the power to kill in bunches. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/HxyMJqasu4
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
In the real world, where we don’t care, the horror stories and the pictures of the dead and wounded will sear our minds and hurt our hearts for a short time.Then we’ll get ready to do this all over again soon enough. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/ndtodDIFDn
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
We have collectively decided this is the way we wish to live. This perverse form of American carnage is not our scourge but our brand. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/NBhoWZHzOK
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
We have had fair warning. Nearly 19 years ago — before a single one of the student victims in Broward County’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High was born — two young men armed to the teeth murdered 13 and wounded 21 in Columbine. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/JtC7gMJcJg
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
Over the course of the entire lives of the South Floridian teens now dead and wounded, nothing changed. In fact, it got worse. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/MzV81GfWOk
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
A ban on assault weapons then in effect lapsed. Firearms, including those that shoot most rapidly and powerfully, have only become more available, more seductive in the culture. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/oAAz1MVRTd
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
The National Rifle Association’s total stranglehold on our politics has only become more absolute.And as a nation, we let all this happen. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/KnuQGeaMi7
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
Which is why, though our stomachs turned, it was no surprise when, just over five years ago, a maniac wielding a military-grade assault rifle murdered 20 first graders and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/5VZQH177gi
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
When we recovered from our disgust, nothing changed again. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/MqtNi2iydj
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
If the lifeless, torn-apart bodies of 6-year-old boys and girls could not shock the American conscience into action, it is pure foolishness to delude ourselves into believing a few more dead and wounded teenagers will do the trick. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/VGEYy77YsU
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
Indeed, since that atrocity, guns have torn apart nearly 300 schools — 18 this year alone.The thing we once called unthinkable has happened nearly 300 times since Sandy Hook. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/7roW2zUehB
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
Three weeks ago, two students were killed and 18 injured in a Kentucky high school. So inured are we to the horror, so perfunctory now is our mourning, it barely registered on the consciousness. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/ERDBY7Hh6e
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
Four and a half months ago, 58 people were murdered in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. For a solid week, the nation mourned. Then, just as quickly, wiped it all away. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/3u2MkbP4xw
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
Congress and the President, cowards all, could not even bother to ban a device that turned semiautomatic rifles into fully automatic, don’t-even-bother-pulling-the-trigger killing machines. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/YZanjwhEGI
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
We might act shocked, but we’re not. Not anymore. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/4UzIUJKfnf
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
In this, our country, the people who call themselves leaders go through the motions of offering condolences and prayers… https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/MvJa0ygpcz
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
…then refuse to marshal the smallest iota of courage needed to prevent maniacs motivated by who cares what deranged animus to get a hold of the weapons of their choice. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/4BTZJ142jM
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
In this, our country, we force our children to learn how to shelter in place, to endure active shooter drills, to practice lockdowns, engaging in a horrifying modern version of Cold War duck-and-cover exercises. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/gvMNY2XLHS
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
In this, our country, the enemies are the killers in our midst. But the enemy, in a larger sense, is us.This is the world we created. https://t.co/i9YkBVH995 #Parkland pic.twitter.com/oWnG0LMEdS
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 18, 2018
