Justin Trudeau Consoles America’s School Shooting Victims While Trump Attacks Samsung

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North America has a compassionate leader-in-chief, he just does not happen to be Donald Trump. Apparently, the U.S. cannot rent Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the next three years, as one person tweeted. Yet, it is an idea we release with reluctance. The shooting tragedy in a Kentucky high school brought home how badly we need someone like Trudeau.

The Canadian prime minister took a moment to phone the governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin, to offer his condolences. Then, he took another moment to tweet to the people of that great state:

‘I’ve spoken with Kentucky’s @GovMattBevin to offer condolences on behalf of Canadians for today’s shooting in Benton. Our hearts go out to Kentuckians, and to all those affected by this tragedy.’

 

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Trudeau offers condolences after the Kentucky school shooting, the eleventh one this year. Donald Trump said nothing, nada, zero, zilch.

Two students in the western Kentucky high school died and many others were injured when a 15-year-old boy walked in with a handgun. He continued shooting until a sheriff’s deputy stopped his massacre. Some students remain in critical condition.

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Governor Bevin held a news conference after the incident and said the shooter was a student who now faces murder and attempted murder charges. According to The Washington Post, he said:

‘This is a wound that is going to take a long time to heal and for some in this community, it will never heal.’

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters in the daily briefing that they had briefed Trump on the shooting. She said in a throw-away line that he offered “thoughts and prayers” for the victims and their families, then she added:

‘The students did exactly as they were trained. Everybody at that high school reacted appropriately.’

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She also indicated that the students had recently been trained on how to react to an active shooter in their school. That was not quite the heartfelt message U.S. people were seeking from their leader or even their Press Secretary.

It seems that Donald Trump missed that in his education, the part where he learned about how to be a leader. It is hard for people to follow someone who appears to not care if they drop dead.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) hails from Kentucky. He took time to speak about the incident from the Senate floor:

‘Our hearts are with the entire community in Marshall County and our gratitude is with the first responders who rushed into harm’s way.’

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Students said the shooter made his way to the atrium, where they congregated. Baleigh Culp said:

‘There was bullets flying everywhere. I ran straight out the door and headed to the highway as fast as I could.’

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The county attorney in Marshall County, Jeff Edwards went to the school after the shooting. He said:

‘To walk in, the backpacks laying around, the phones laying around, going off . . . it’s indescribable. I’ve been doing this for 25 years. It’s not like anything I’ve experienced in my life.’

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The gunshot injuries varied in their seriousness. Five boys ranging from 15 through 18 were wounded. One of the teenagers had a head wound, another had a chest and abdomen wounds, and a third had an arm wound.

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Too bad, the tweeter-in-chief could not be bothered to lift his phone to sent his expression of grief to the citizens of Kentucky.

Then again, maybe the administration should just hire someone to do compassion.

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