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Parkland Activist Teams Up With Jacksonville Shooting Survivor to Fundraise for Victims' Families
townhall.com ^ | 8/31/2018 | Lauretta Brown

Posted on 08/31/2018 7:10:33 AM PDT by rktman

Shay Kivlen, a survivor of the tragic shooting at a Madden tournament in Jacksonville, Florida last week that left two gamers dead, has joined forces with Parkland activist Cameron Kasky and Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans to raise money for the victims’ families.

Kivlen, whose gamer name is “Young Kiv” spoke with Townhall Thursday about his experience at the tournament and how people have banded together to help his gaming family in the wake of such an awful tragedy.

After losing his friends and fellow gamers Elijah Clayton and Taylor Robertson in the shooting, Kivlen received an outpouring of support on social media that eventually led him to connect with Parkland shooting survivor Cameron Kasky.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1a; 2abanglist; goodguys
Notice how most of the coverage of this one vanished when it was discovered the perp was a big anti-trumpster? Odd huh?
1 posted on 08/31/2018 7:10:33 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

NON print with ads:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/08/31/parkland-activist-teams-up-with-jacksonville-shooting-survivor-and-nfl-player-to-help-victims-families-n2514603


2 posted on 08/31/2018 7:10:52 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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And the fact that he purchased his gun LEGALLY in the rabid anti-gun state of Maryland....

And it was NOT an EVIL AR-15 “assault rifle....”

AND......(what else doesn’t fit the left’s agenda?)


3 posted on 08/31/2018 7:19:05 AM PDT by fredhead (Duty, Honor, Country.....Honor, Courage, Commitment)
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“Divorce filings from his parents say that as a teenager he was twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities and that he was prescribed anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medications.”


4 posted on 08/31/2018 7:24:00 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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5 posted on 08/31/2018 7:28:53 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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Thanks. Me too except I am a YUGE fan of guns. And, I’ve known 6 suicides with firearms and a negligent death by shotgun. Call me crazy but I don’t blame inanimate objects. (That does seem like a large number for one person doesn’t it?)


6 posted on 08/31/2018 7:32:35 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: fredhead

PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS AND PSYCHIATRIC CARE!


7 posted on 08/31/2018 7:37:52 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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Having once been in the same vicinity of a far-left psychopath does not give these petty tyrants the moral authority to infringe on the fundamental human rights of decent people. “Shall not be infringed” is unambiguous.


8 posted on 08/31/2018 7:50:10 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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