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Behind the Aegis

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Mon Feb 15, 2021, 01:27 AM Feb 2021

'Your voice was silenced': Jewish parents of Parkland victims remember their kids three years later

On the third anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, parents of the shooting’s Jewish victims shared their memories and hopes for the future.

Several of the 17 students and faculty who were killed in the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were Jewish. In the years since the attack, some of the victims’ Jewish parents have become prominent activists for gun control and school safety.

Fred Guttenberg shared a letter he wrote to his daughter, Jaime, on Twitter. Jaime was 14 when she was killed and would have graduated high school this year. Guttenberg wrote about his thoughts after the tragedy, and pledged to fight for stronger gun safety legislation in Jaime’s memory.

“Dear Jaime, 3 years ago your voice was silenced,” Guttenberg wrote. “You are on my mind every second of every minute of every day. I constantly relive your last seconds in my mind. Did you suffer? I will never know, but I fear that you did. Did I do enough to protect you?”

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'Your voice was silenced': Jewish parents of Parkland victims remember their kids three years later (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Feb 2021 OP
Twitter reply: Rhiannon12866 Feb 2021 #1
Cancel culture in the USA has long been the reality of guns in the USA sanatanadharma Feb 2021 #2
Every second. Every minute. Every day. Kid Berwyn Feb 2021 #3

sanatanadharma

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2. Cancel culture in the USA has long been the reality of guns in the USA
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 08:52 AM
Feb 2021

The gun culture is the actual 'cancel culture' in this country and there seems not to be any 'consequence culture' among the uncultured gunners.

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