CNN had a town hall earlier this week regarding the Florida school shooting. I think the idea was great, but the execution was terrible...


Just like everything CNN says or does, I take with a grain of salt. I watch it live but was not paying much attention and did not really care for it. Then I watched The Ben Shapiro Show and it really opened my eyes.

Here is the episode if you would like to look at it...


I understand that the town hall was not considered a debate, it was more of a discussion. But it was not even really a discussion. It was pretty much consumed with democrats bashing Marco Rubio and the NRA.

I also do not like the sheriff of Broward County. Instead of taking responsibility for the mess up that he made, he passes on the blame. For example, instead of saying that he failed to do something in any of the 20+ calls about the shooter, he blames it on the NRA, or more recently the cops that stayed outside instead of stopping the shooter. Dana Loesch brought up that he had been called about this kid 39 times and the Sheriff then blames the Shooter (which is true, but he is missing the point). He then states that he was not called 39 times when she brings it up, but when other people say it such as Rep Ted Deutch, everybody lets it go.

The cops who did not stop the shooting and decided to stand outside are disgraceful. They should have never been police to begin with. I understand that not every body can do the job of the police, but it is what you have signed up for. I was watching Office401 at lunch and he made a great point... The cop did not go in to the school, he then decides to resign, and now the cop is getting 24 hour protection.

Jake Tapper did a pretty good job at controlling the crowd for the most part. He left his political views out of the discussion and was pretty good at moderating.

Since the town hall was held in Broward County which is a majority of democrats, there were not many republicans at the town hall. This lead to one big circle jerk. Nobody really changed there views on anything and nothing was really solved. I can assume that many republicans did not go because they knew it was hosted by CNN and would be surrounded and bashed by the democrats.

I have seen stories about pro gun students who were in the school during the shooting who were rejected from participating in the discussion because of they would not ask CNN's questions.

The crowd was ridiculous. The crowd along with many left wingers, make gun supporters out to be just as bad as the shooter himself. For example, Cameron Kasky told Marco Rubio "it is hard to look at you, and not look down the barrel of an ar-15 and not look at Nicolaz Cruz". That is completely ridiculous and very frustrating. I can not think of anyone aside from school shooters who actually want school shootings to happen. Almost everyone wants to stop school shootings. Then he goes on to ask Marco Rubio to no longer accept money from the NRA. Rubio explains what he will still accept money, and the crowd boo's at him. And the crowd was not being reasonable at all. They were screaming things such as "murderer" at the NRA rep. They want to ban every single semi automatic gun. The list goes on and on.

I have heard some things about letting teens vote, and that is ridiculous too. I really do not want teens voting, let alone teens who have just went through something like a school shooting. They do not think straight and Cameron Kasky proves my point. They let their emotions get in the way of their thinking.

Although Broward county is very left wing, most of Florida is very right wing. And I understand that it never hurts to try, but these students and people are fighting a losing battle. They will not accomplish very much. To me, it looks like CNN makes these students out to be more than they really are. They do not have very much power. I truly hope that we can come up with solutions, but this town hall did not help anyone aside from comforting the snowflakes at the town hall.

I really did not want to watch the town hall, because I knew all it was going to be was propaganda from the left. But I decided that since people at school were going to be talking about it, I might as well be up to date. And the people at school are just as bad as the snowflakes at the town hall meeting. One thing that someone was really trying to push was that we have had 18 school shootings so far in the year. And it was frustrating to me. I go to class, do my work, and do not say anything. I think that politics should stay out of schools and so I try to avoid them. But this girl was straight up spreading sketchy information. Although there were 18 shootings involving schools, they are not what you think they were. There have only been two or three actual school shootings up to that point... [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

This was just a little bit of what I thought about the town hall, there was much more wrong with it. With that being said, do not take this rant as me putting the survivors of this school shooting down. I am not really angry at the kids, I am angry with CNN.