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dflprincess

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Thu Sep 11, 2025, 10:41 PM Thursday

I suppose this is true after every school shooting [View all]

Last edited Thu Sep 11, 2025, 11:25 PM - Edit history (1)

parents of dead or injured students are stuck with funeral and/or medical costs and wind up having to fundraise one way or another.

But Charlie Kirk's body will be flown back to Arizona on Air Force II - at the taxpayers' expense.

I think we need to start pushing for a law that victims of any mass shooting have their expenses paid by the Federal government or maybe private gun groups should be made to pay the bills. If we can't get meaningful gun reform passed, the people who made the mess can pay for its results.

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