This is disgusting. Shows an absence of empathy on a level I can't even comprehend.

[demmiblue]

For a sitting State Board of Education member and current Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan to host a “Back to School Town Hall” at a GUN STORE that is only one hour away from both Oxford and Michigan State University is a whole new level of insensitivity. It’s disgusting. Share widely. Vote accordingly.

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[struggle4progress]

1. Decision on Oxford shooter's sentencing set for Sept. 29

By Robin Murdoch and Jack Nissen
Published August 18, 2023 6:58AM

... Judge Kwame Rowe said he would announce his decision about whether the defendant should be sentenced to prison without the possibility of parole on Sept. 29. He also announced a sentencing date of Dec. 8 ...

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/oxford-high-school-shooter-in-court-for-final-day-of-miller-hearing-friday

[Deuxcents]

2. These are educators?

What are the parents saying? 20$ admission? WTH

[TheBlackAdder]

21. When educators and counselors use child fonts, it's a warning they are not playing with a full deck!

[struggle4progress]

3. Where things stand 6 months after MSU shooting

... four of the five students injured in the shooting have been released from the hospital. One student, who has been undergoing rehabilitation and physical therapy following a brain injury, is expecting to go home soon ...

Waves of victims and their families came into the hospital the night of Feb. 13 ...

In the early stages of it all, the shooter remained on the loose ...

Following the shooting, MSU has been installing locks inside of classrooms, and they’re restricting access at certain points and in certain buildings ...

... families of seven of the eight victims have filed some sort of suit against MSU ...

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/08/14/michigan-state-university-where-things-stand-6-months-after-mass-shooting/

[struggle4progress]

4. Is Oxford gun shop liable? (2022)

June 30, 2022, 1:14 PM

... a local firearms dealer is being sued for what an injured student's parents say was negligence in selling the handgun used.

Acme Shooting Goods is accused of not adequately preventing James Crumbley from buying a 9mm Sig Sauer SP 2022 pistol for his 15-year-old son Ethan four days before the gunfire that killed four schoolmates. The federal lawsuit claims the transaction, as Ethan stood alongside his dad, was an illegal "straw purchase" because teens under 18 can't possess a handgun in Michigan ...

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/30826/is_oxford_gun_shop_liable_in_high_school_shooting_victim_s_family_thinks_so_and_sues

[SYFROYH]

14. I doubt it. Straw purchases are difficult to prove.

It is perfectly legal for a father to purchase a handgun with a minor in tow. It's even legal to have the minor evaluate the gun assuming he would be supervised by an adult when shooting it.

I think they would need to prove that the father bought the handgun with the intention of letting the minor possess it without any supervision unlawfully. That would probably be difficult.

But it's probably worth a try.

[Prairie_Seagull]

5. Bold fucking choice, like having to choose armor for your children.

Hope she loses her ass and her current job.

[struggle4progress]

6. MSU shooter used 2 handguns purchased legally (Feb 2023)

by Mike Krafcik | News Channel 3Thu, February 16th 2023, 8:52 PM EST

... Anthony McRae, 43, shot and killed himself following an hours-long manhunt Monday. Police found two 9mm handguns in his possession, along with eight loaded magazines and a pouch with 50 rounds of loose ammunition, and two empty magazines in his backpack, according to detectives ...

McRae appeared to have been legally allowed a gun after a 2021 discharge from probation following a guilty plea to a misdemeanor weapons charge in November 2020, according to court records.

McRae was originally sentenced to a year of probation, but that was later extended to a year and a half. McRae was discharged from probation in May 2021, according to Ingham County court records ...

https://wwmt.com/news/local/michigan-state-university-shooting-msu-students-victims-murder-mass-anthony-mcrae-campus-brian-fraser-alexandria-verner-arielle-anderson

[struggle4progress]

7. Michigan State University attacker lied about gun

By Chloe Kim
BBC News, Washington

A gunman who killed three people at Michigan State University had a history of mental illness and used to lie about having a firearm, his father has said.

The dad told US media his son hid a gun in his room after he was banned from carrying firearms in the wake of a 2019 weapons violation ...

The father said that when he heard gunfire in the backyard and challenged his son about it, he would claim it was fireworks, even though bullet casings were on the grass ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64644992

[Hortensis]

8. Definitely "bold choice"! I'd like to suggest that maybe a leap

from school board to U.S. senate is excessively bold, albeit unweighed down by experience. Fly, little "freedom-loving patriot" birdie -- and crash.

[struggle4progress]

9. Gabby Giffords endorses Slotkin

Quinn Klinefelter
July 17, 2023

... Elissa Slotkin, one of the leading candidates to replace Michigan’s soon-to-retire U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, is getting some help on the campaign trail from ... Gabby Giffords ...

Slotkin had two mass shootings in her current congressional district in less than two years — 2021’s shooting at Oxford High School and at Michigan State University back in February ...

Slotkin is part of a crowded field of senatorial candidates that includes ... Nikki Snyder ...

https://wdet.org/2023/07/17/gabby-giffords-endorses-elissa-slotkin-for-us-senate/

[Warpy]

10. It's stunningly tone deaf

Somehow, I don't think it's going to go well for her.

[gratuitous]

18. Tone deaf to us, maybe

But to the folks Nikki Snyder is courting for votes, it's like an angel chorus sweetly singing o'er the plains.

[Caliman73]

20. Absolutely. We need to understand this better...

Conservatives absolutely understand that they do not (and have never) had numbers on their side. This is why they lie, they create these "culture war" and wedge issues, and they use dirty tricks like voter suppression.

They rile up their smaller, but easier to activate base with fear and hatred. They then use all kinds of tricks to depress the vote of people who are a large minority of the electorate, people who aren't really paying attention. It is a calculated numbers game for them. They do most of their "active" messaging to keep their based aroused and activated. Meanwhile they work in the background on ways to keep the numbers down for the majority of people who agree with liberal policies, but who aren't highly motivated to vote. Disaffected people who are busy or who think that nothing changes.

They are not "tone deaf" as you say, they just know exactly who they are playing to.

[ShazzieB]

11. I'll bet anything she's a super MAGAt, the Trumpiest of the Trumpiest!

I'll also bet that won't help her in the next election, and neither will this!

[calimary]

12. I'd be afraid to go in there.

What if somebody gets into an argument? If they’re in a frickin’ gun store, bad can go to worse in the space of a heartbeat.

I not only wouldn’t go, I’d complain. A lot. To the school board and superintendent of public instruction, the mayor’s office, and the local newspaper (for which I’d write a letter to the editor.

They count on us remaining silent and not saying (or doing) anything while they rampage and try to terrorize and bully and trample on our rights.

Don’t forget this! Not EVER!!! They COUNT ON us doing nothing about it.

[onenote]

13. And the more people complain about it, the more people will show up and she'll raise more money

The way of the world these days.

[bringthePaine]

15. soooooo fucking sick of psychos! Reagan legacy🖕🏻

[Initech]

16. What the actual fuck??????

The MAGA morons have no shame. At all.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. Replies here are exactly what she's looking for.

She can claim to "own the libs".

Mission accomplished.

[Just Jerome]

19. Really more of a campaign fundraiser

than an actual town hall. But yeah, that’s about their speed.

[Blue Owl]

22. K&R for exposure

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

23. kick