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I Tried to Befriend Nikolas Cruz. He Still Killed My Friends.
The New York Times ^ | March 27, 2018 | Isabelle Robinson

Posted on 03/28/2018 10:34:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Bringbackthedraft

Students: do NOT carry one of these.

Snopes says it might be bad for any perp you spray it on.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/spray-for-pain/


81 posted on 03/28/2018 2:22:24 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Pelham

You noticed that; too?

Awesome!!


82 posted on 03/28/2018 2:26:14 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Refreshing piece. I am SO SICK of these EVIL PEOPLE being treated like poor victims. As if.


83 posted on 03/28/2018 2:28:34 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: thoughtomator; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
And no sane girl would want to be friends, let alone lovers, with somebody who ogled her breasts, cussed at her and engaged in random violence.

Not to worry; for there are PLENTY of INsane girls out there that would eat this behavior UP!!

84 posted on 03/28/2018 2:30:20 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 1Old Pro

Oh; a bigger percentage than THAT vote Democrat.


85 posted on 03/28/2018 2:30:59 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Pelham

This doesn’t read like it was written by a 17 yr old. Not the content, the writing style.
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I thought the same.


86 posted on 03/28/2018 2:36:36 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Every conservative pundit or politician should have used the words PROMISE Program over and over. Instead most people have never heard of it. What an outrage to give federal tax dollars to school districts which decrease suspensions, expulsions and criminal referrals regardless of the number of infractions. Parklands County was a big “achiever” in this program. End result: Cruz has no criminal or mental health record and can buy a gun legally.


87 posted on 03/28/2018 2:48:56 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: thoughtomator
I have never heard that word used to mean “sat down with someone for an hour because I was assigned to do so, while resenting him the entire time”.

Not exactly what she said:

A year after I was assaulted by Mr. Cruz, I was assigned to tutor him through my school’s peer counseling program. Being a peer counselor was the first real responsibility I had ever had, my first glimpse of adulthood, and I took it very seriously.

Despite my discomfort, I sat down with him, alone. I was forced to endure his cursing me out and ogling my chest until the hourlong session ended.

That's more than most people would have done.

Plus, her account is colored by what happened since.

She may not have been as hostile to him at the time as you think.

88 posted on 03/28/2018 2:57:42 PM PDT by x
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To: Vermont Lt
So, Cruz chucked an apple at her with absolutely no provocation at all.

Could be. Or some kids act up because they don't like the way you look at them or just the way you look. Is that a provocation?

True, we don't know the whole story, but it's not impossible for somebody we now know to be unbalanced to lash out without real provocation.

If you read the documentation on what goes through the heads of these whack-job shooters is that they generally have a long term problem that includes bullying and public humiliation.

It's not always a question of bulliers and bullied, victimizers and victims.

This guy might have been bullied, but I suspect he did enough bullying himself.

If this girl was a peer counselor to this kook, and she was frightened—she is a moron for staying in the same room as him.

She was about 13 at the time. How smart were you at that age? It's easy now to say what she should have done, but I wouldn't have known how to handle that situation at that age.

Plus, a lot of what she says now is influence by what happened this month. Her feelings and thoughts may not have been as clear and well-defined then as they are now.

89 posted on 03/28/2018 3:04:13 PM PDT by x
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So the kid was a bad seed. How is that a federal issue? Considering how many years the perp signaled his mental issues, how is it not a school issue, local governance issue, local administrative issue, local law enforcement issue?

Hillary once said, it takes a village. And then encouraged packing 3000 kids into a single campus. The village failed, but it’s still not a federal issue. The one consistency of the Parkland incident is the many students who think federal government and national law virtue signaling is the only solution to local community failures.


90 posted on 03/28/2018 4:37:44 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Vermont Lt
But again, if you had thrown an apple at a table with the velocity that this kid describes...would you have been in that school long?

I'd have been in detention for sure. And possibly suspended. And if the problems continued it was off to reform school. That is if I survived the beating from the other guys in the school who would have pounded on me for hurting a girl.

Thankfully back in the old days the adults in the school took responsibility for dealing with kids with serious mental or behavior issues. Now it seems like the only person who actually was assigned to do anything with regards to Nikolas Cruz was a young girl.

91 posted on 03/28/2018 5:50:09 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

>Or maybe he is a natural-born thug, so they opted to stay away from him. Human nature.

Either way, whatever animus he had and for whatever reason, they probably exacerbated it. All it takes sometimes is one kind person. I know that from the HS students I’ve had to deal with.


92 posted on 03/28/2018 7:00:51 PM PDT by struggle
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To: dhs12345
"Cruz should get the Chair."


93 posted on 03/28/2018 9:09:12 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: clearcarbon
I Tried to Befriend Nikolas Cruz. He Still Killed My Friends.

We TAXPAYERS have Tried to Befriend United Way and Planned Parenthood. But they Still Killed about 350 future Parkland students.



25% of ALL viable pregnancies end in ABORTION.
Thus 743 compared to the 2980 enrollment at Parkland.
Data says that PP performs more than HALF of all abortions in USA.

94 posted on 03/29/2018 4:12:52 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Cried.... after being hit in the back with a.... thrown apple? Yeah....


95 posted on 03/29/2018 6:25:15 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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