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Cuban legend Luis Tiant passes at 83


WOW One of the biggest names ever to come from my country island Cuba and former Red Sox pitcher Cuban legend Luis Tiant passes away at 83. I remember as a kid my dad would talk about him A LOT as he was a major icon in Cuban baseball here in America and really did a lot to open the eyes of scouts, and people in MLB (Major League Baseball) in terms of scouting Latin America for talent.


With an amazing whirling, twisting delivery a style on his own in the history of the sport Luis Tiant turned his performances into theatrical magic. While in his prime in the 1970's, you didn’t need a radio or television to know that Tiant was pitching at Fenway Park. Throughout the packed houses he pitched in front of, cries of “Looie, Looie, Looie!” echoed around Kenmore Square and other parts of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. The lovably charismatic El Tiante as he came to be known throughout his memorable career was said that “Luis had the kind of unforgettable presence that made you feel like you were part of his world,” said Red Sox principal owner John Henry in a statement. “He was a pitcher with incredible talent, accomplishing so much with a style uniquely his own. But what truly set Luis apart was his zest for life, embracing every moment with an infectious spirit, even in the face of his many challenges. He channeled everything into his love for the game and the people around him. He was magnetic and had a smile that could light up Fenway Park. Luis was truly one of a kind and all of us at the Red Sox will miss him.”

But he left behind a legacy that won’t be forgotten by those who knew him, played with him or cheered for him. "At least people still remember me and remember what I did all those years,” Tiant said in a 2017 interview with MLB.com. “I know what I've had to do with my life, and I'm lucky. I'm lucky I played all those years. God gave me the opportunity to play. What more can you ask? You can't ask for more than that." His teammates never asked for more than what Tiant gave them. “Nobody was a tougher competitor or a better teammate. He meant too much to us, and to the fans. We all loved him,” wrote Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski in the foreword of Tiant’s autobiography, “Son of Havana,” which was published in 2019. In a 19-year Major League career, the Cuban native had a career record of 229-172 with a 3.30 ERA, pitching for Cleveland (1964-69), Minnesota (’70), Boston (’71-78), the Yankees (’79-80), Pittsburgh (’81) and the Angels (’82). When fellow Cuban Tony Oliva was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2022, he stood on the stage on a stifling hot Sunday in Cooperstown, N.Y., and noted that Tiant deserved to be there also.



Though Tiant never got the call from the Hall, the three-time All-Star led the American League in Baseball Reference WAR for pitchers in 1968 and was in the top 10 in seven other seasons. That '68 season was the Year of the Pitcher and Tiant played the part better than anyone not named Bob Gibson or Denny McLain, posting a 1.60 ERA in the first of his eventual four 20-win seasons. The 1975 World Series, in which the upstart Red Sox played a compelling seven-game set before ultimately falling to Cincinnati’s vaunted Big Red Machine, turned Tiant into a household name. But for the gritty righty, the son of a Negro Leagues star (Luis Tiant Sr.), it all started in Cuba, where he was born on Nov. 23, 1940. Tiant followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming an ace in his homeland during his youth. The problem was that Cuba didn’t have professional baseball once Fidel Castro took power in 1959. For three seasons from 1959 through ’61 Tiant pitched for the Mexico City Tigers, hoping he would be noticed by a pro scout. Tiant got his wish when Cleveland purchased his contract from Mexico City for $35,000 prior to the '62 season. Any remorse Tiant might have had for fleeing to the United States straight from Mexico City was eliminated by a letter his father had written him a couple of months earlier that was quoted in Tiant’s autobiography:

“Don’t come home. Castro is not going to allow any more professional sports here no baseball or boxing. If you do come home, I don’t think you’ll be able to get out again. They are not letting many people leave the island, especially young men of military age.” Years after his father, a lefty, had dominated in the Negro Leagues, Luis Jr. carved his own path in the United States, starting with parts of three seasons in the Minors. In 1964, Tiant got his break when Cleveland needed a starter for a July 19 game at Yankee Stadium against a team that was in the middle of a dynasty. All Tiant did in his debut was fire a four-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts while out dueling the legendary Whitey Ford. “I was not nervous, but had a little tension,” Tiant said in a 2009 documentary about his life, “Lost Son of Havana.” “You’re pitching against best team in baseball, you’re a rookie. That day was my day. They let me do what my father couldn’t do.” When Tiant started the ’68 All-Star Game, many Cubans including his father watched him on television as a Major Leaguer for the first time. By the time '69 came Tiant started to have arm problems and his ERA swelled to 3.71. In ’70, he started 6-0 for the Twins, but disaster soon struck. Tiant felt a popping sensation on a breaking ball during a start and learned that he had a broken scapula. Medical science not being what it would evolve into, doctors suggested to Tiant he would never pitch again.

Cut by the Twins the day before camp broke in '71, Tiant was signed to the Braves’ Minor League system, but he was released after a month. The Red Sox signed him two days later, and it wound up being one of the best moves in club history. Still building his arm strength back up after the Red Sox recalled him from the Minors, Tiant went 1-7 with a 4.85 ERA in 21 appearances. There weren’t many expectations for Tiant entering '72, but that was the season he reinvented himself. Lacking the dazzling fastball he once had, Tiant recreated his delivery into one that nobody had ever seen before. Perhaps Joe Garagiola described it best to the NBC audience years later. “If you’re sitting in center field, you got to see his eyeballs. Look at that,” Garagiola said. There was a method to Tiant’s madness, which he explained in the documentary. “I knew I needed something different,” he said. “I had to do something so I could hide the ball better to keep me back more. It gave me more power. I changed my delivery completely.” For the Red Sox, Tiant turned into an utter force, winning 81 games in a four-season span (1973-76).

“Luis embodied everything we love about this game: resilience, passion, and an undeniable sense of belonging to something greater than himself,” said Red Sox chairman Tom Werner in a statement. “He was a cornerstone of the Red Sox pitching staff for years, with an unmatched grit and tenacity on the mound. His ability to rise in the most pressure-filled moments especially his complete-game performances cemented his place as a true legend." In '75, it all came together for Tiant, on and off the field. With relations between the United States and Cuba softening a little that year, United States Senator Edward Brooke from Massachusetts wrote a letter to Castro asking for Tiant’s parents to be permitted to fly from Cuba to Boston to see their son for the first time in 14 years. Senator George McGovern, who had already scheduled a trip to Cuba to discuss other business, hand-delivered the letter to Castro, who granted the request. In fact, Castro said that Tiant’s parents could remain in the United States for as long as they wished. Luis Sr. and Isabel Rovina Vega Tiant arrived in Boston in August 1975.  Luis Jr., by then a husband and a father, wept with joy when his parents walked off the plane. One of the most emotional moments took place on Aug. 26 of that '75 season, when the Red Sox invited the elder Tiant to throw out the ceremonial first pitch on a night his son was starting against the Angels. While Luis Sr. fired a strike, his son held his dad’s sport coat from just behind the mound and beamed with pride.

The real fun started in October. Tiant started Boston’s postseason run with a Game 1 American League Championship Series shutout against an Athletics team that had won the World Series the three previous years. Then came the Fall Classic, which Tiant opened by not only firing another shutout against the heavy-hitting Reds at Fenway, but he also jump-started his team’s six-run rally in the bottom of the seventh with a lead off single followed by some of the most humorous base running of all time. On a sacrifice bunt by Dwight Evans, the throw by Johnny Bench to second was low. The bulky Tiant, wearing his warm up jacket, basically rolled over second base as the ball traveled into the short outfield. Tiant had Boston coaches, players and fans gasping for air when he started toward third, but somehow stumbled back into second safely. On an RBI single by Yaz, Tiant originally missed home plate, but then tip-toed back before the Reds could throw it back in as the park lit up with a combination of joy and laughter.

Then came the pure guts of Game 4 in Cincinnati in which the Red Sox needed a win to tie up the Series. It took a whopping 155 pitches from Tiant, but he got the job done, leading Boston to a pulsating 5-4 victory. "In my time, that's what we did we finished games," Tiant said in 2017. "My father used to tell me, 'What you start, you finish.' That's how you learned and you grew up that way. Now, it's different. They are protected more. I guess you have to because there's a lot of money involved. A lot of guys want to keep pitching but they come out." Boston’s 4-3 loss in Game 7 was heartbreaking, especially on the heels of the euphoria created by Bernie Carbo and Carlton Fisk a day earlier. It is surely no coincidence that all three victories the Red Sox had in that Fall Classic were started by Tiant. In his post-playing days, it became clear which of his teams Tiant identified most with: He settled in the Boston area and eventually opened up a Cuban food stand on the street outside Fenway Park, where he would smoke cigars and converse with fans.

Tiant also became a fixture at Red Sox Spring Training and loved to pass those days riding around the complex in a golf cart while laughing with former teammate Jim Rice. “Luis had a style of pitching that was as memorable as it was effective, but to me, the rarer gift was his ability to lift you up with just a smile,” said Red Sox president & CEO Sam Kennedy in a statement. “When you were with him, you were reminded of what really matters. Whether you were a teammate, a fan, or just someone fortunate enough to share a conversation, Luis had a way of making you feel special, like you were a close friend. "His legacy on the mound is undeniable, but all of us today are mourning the man, the friend, the mentor who connected generations of fans and players. I am gutted by the news of his passing and will miss him more than words can express. Spring Training won’t be the same without Luis’s infectious energy spreading throughout camp.” Poignantly, Tiant at last visited Cuba in 2007 during a celebration of his 67th birthday. It was there he visited family members, friends and teammates he hadn’t seen in 46 years. Many scenes from that trip were included in the '09 documentary, which originally aired on ESPN.

As he headed back to his second home of Boston after the emotional trip, Tiant offered this: “I feel better, my heart is better, my head is better. I guess I can say, I can close my book now. If I die, I die happy. Now, I’m a free man. I feel free inside of me. Full of good inside of me. That’s a feeling nobody can take away from me now.”
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The American Dream now a Nightmare!

A Growing problem not just for people my age but much older folks are getting this sort of government adanment while we the people who have spent decades working paying bills and being legal clean working citizens suffer these liberals want to give away our tax money to keep funding wars and bring in more illagals to help them continue to rig elections. They literally just shot a bill in California to give illals breaking the law chances at buying homes worth $150K more than the house I was forced out to sell by WellsFargo bank.

Meet Mechy Polo Paez, 68, she never envisioned her retirement would include living in a van. Her husband, Orlando, once lived with her in the van and both were once environmental activists, immigrated from Cuba to Miami in 1991. Where they ran a juice bar and produced radio and television programs. However, a recent rent increase of $400 forced the couple into homelessness. “I don’t have money. Everything is going up. Everything,” Paez explained to CBS when asked how they ended up living in a van. This is what happened to them under the current administration. AND more and more people are ending up like these folks. Myself included! I've been disabled since 2019 I have a broken back (L4/L5 both need spine fusion.) also have thyroid tumors, and can't hardly walk. But I've been denied help by disability office since I was disabled for reasons un known while money is being lost by BILLIONS again to feed wars, and illegals.

November 2023, the couple managed to secure housing through a local program, “Mia Casa,” that provides seniors with meals and temporary housing while they transition to permanent homes. But shortly after, Orlando died of a heart attack. Paez, who is also battling pancreatic cancer, however, remains optimistic about her future settling into a new home. Seniors like Mechy Polo Paez are the fastest-growing population of unhoused individuals, with nearly 138,098 individuals over the age of 55 experiencing homelessness on a given night in 2023, according to data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Based on estimates from academics, that number is expected to triple by 2030. What is causing this rise? It's a complex problem. Some say... But it's really not. The problem is inflation, and illegals being brought in and these institutions are tossing people out of their homes as quickly as possible for what liberals just have been trying to do which is secure help to get homes sold to illegals. Help for criminals not citizens folks and this is what it all boils down too.

But let's look at other facts here also as seniors tend to require more physical and mental care, which increases their costs. Lack of affordable housing and high rents are making finding an affordable place to live more challenging. The record rise in inflation like I said also paired with a fixed retirement income makes it increasingly difficult for seniors to adjust to rising costs. Senior poverty rates are also on the rise. In 2022, the national poverty rate for people aged 65 and over was 10.9%. While lower than the national average, that’s an increase from the 10.3% senior poverty rate in 2021. 

This marks the second year in a row that this group’s poverty rates have increased. Another cause is rising inflation. While Social Security benefits do increase with inflation, those increases lag by a year. This means that seniors may pay higher costs for a full year before their benefits increase.

Car insurance rates have spiked in the US to a stunning $2,150/year but you can be smarter than that. Here's how you can save yourself as much as $820 annually in minutes (it's 100% free) In response to rising poverty rates, many resources are available to seniors struggling to cover rising costs. According to the New York Times, only half of eligible seniors have signed up for SNAP, which helps cover food costs. With an average benefit of $202, SNAP can help offset the rising cost of food. Many states have energy programs to offset the cost of electricity, gas and water. In Ohio, for example, the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) helps Ohioans of all ages cover rising electricity costs.

While many seniors know how to claim their Social Security benefits, they may not know about supplemental Social Security benefits, which provides financial assistance to seniors 65-plus who earn less than $1,971 per month. Many seniors have Medicare for health insurance costs, but additional supplemental programs can help cover the costs of transportation, prescription drugs, caregivers and home modifications like ramps to help you stay in your home. Additionally, many local programs, like the “Mia Casa” initiative that helped Mechy Polo Paez, are helping seniors find homes and happiness in their golden years.
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NOW This is a joke right? LOL

OK SO I live in Miami, Florida and have been here since 1990 and was born in Havana Cuba. I first lived in California for years before moving here full time as we would come here for summers over the 80's to spend time with family members until my parents decided to relocate to Miami. This was a lot of fun of course and also it brought us closer to where my half brother had been jailed to who was sent to jail in the mid 80's after he had spent a year in Miami living with family here he was caught up with some friends and was sent to prison at 17 based on a bill passed by the 80's written by Joe Biden of all people. Now we're in 2024 and remember we had 8 years with Joe as VP and Barrack Obama as President. Now just this June 18, 2024 An electronic billboard located on the Palmetto Expressway and Northwest 67th Avenue in Miami-Dade County shows an image of Fidel Castro and Donald Trump and tells voters to avoid dictators. 

JOSE IGLESIAS A roadside billboard in Miami that draws comparisons between Donald Trump and dictators like Fidel Castro is aiming to strike a chord with South Florida Hispanics. For some, it’s touching a nerve. The billboard, which reads “No a los dictadores, no a Trump” this coming from the party of Obama who went to Cuba met with both Fidel, and Raul and not just called them great leaders but shook their hands and took in some Cuban baseball games with Raul Castro. So wait who's the DICKtasters here? Or um Dictators... These lowlife losers like this moron Jose Iglesias is such a puppet and a moron that he said this and real? “No to dictators, no to Trump” ??? Really? This guy Jose needs a slight swift kick to the head for his stupidity folks. This again was posted Monday along the Palmetto Expressway near Northwest 67th Avenue by an anti-Trump outside group called Mad Dog PAC.

As you can see in the picture it depicts Trump and the late Castro face-to-face on opposite sides of the sign... My goodness... The sheer stupidity!

The “dictator” b/s is nothing new in South Florida, where politicians pull from the politics and history of Latin America in domestic elections to appeal to South Florida’s immigrant communities. Yet the billboard has elicited intense emotions among many voters in a part of the state that has been shaped in large part by exiles who fled Cuba in the years and decades since Castro seized power on the island. On Radio Mambí, a fixture of South Florida’s conservative Cuban community, hosts and commentators took to the airwaves Tuesday morning to decry the billboard as “propaganda.” Another called it an “anti-Cuban provocation” against victims of Castro’s government. The station appeared to play bits of Trump’s salsa campaign jingle between conversation and callers. “Who can imagine Fidel Castro being the victim of a judicial offensive in his own country?” asked a host, referring to the high-profile New York case in which a state-court jury found Trump guilty of 34 felonies for falsifying business records related to “hush money” payments his lawyer made to an adult film actress.

The radio personalities rejected the parallels between the presumptive Republican nominee, who they said was a “North American capitalist who was born and raised in a democracy and who considers that the country is on the wrong path and wants to retake the presidency,” and the late Cuban leader, who they described as a “scoundrel, a murderer, thug, thief who seized power through lies in Cuba.” But the hosts also acknowledged that the billboard has caused mixed reactions among officials and community members, and invited listeners to phone in their opinions. Several callers expressed anger and shock at the comparisons. Some said that it should be Biden’s image next to Castro’s instead. One listener said that neither Trump or Biden deserved being candidates in a presidential race. “It’s absolutely ridiculous. How are they going to compare Donald Trump with a murderer?” said one female caller, adding that she had “good memories” of his presidency.

While South Florida’s Cuban community has long leaned Republican, there’s a broader conversation among political operatives and observers this year about whether Trump could become the first Republican presidential candidate since the 1980's to win Miami-Dade County. He lost the county in both 2016 and 2020, though there are signs that the politics of the region have shifted since then. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis carried Miami-Dade in 2022, and Democrats have seen their once-sizable voter registration advantage in the county slip in recent years to less than 65,000 people. Claude Taylor, the founder of Mad Dog PAC, said he doesn’t necessarily expect President Biden to win Florida and its 30 electoral votes in the November elections. He said that the goal of the billboard is to grab people’s attention. “We do anti-Trump billboards, plain and simple,” Taylor told the Miami Herald. “We’re here to help defeat Trump. Period. We have a very narrow focus.” 

Taylor acknowledged that he’s not likely to “convince solidly pro-Trump Cuban Americans to vote” for Biden, but rather to mock Trump in his home state – and perhaps provide some comic relief for those voters “who don’t want to vote for a convicted felon.” He noted that his group has put billboards in the past near Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, and currently has another billboard up on Interstate 75 between Tampa and Sarasota. Most of Mad Dog PAC’s billboards have been placed throughout other states, like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, he said, but the one in Miami is the group’s first Spanish-language sign.







Watch this leftist little lesbian swam over her communist PRESIDENT meeting and loving his time with our (Cubans) enemy...

“The man is psychotic, deeply flawed and he wants to be a dictator,” Taylor said. “And it’s extremely ironic that people who suffered through decades of tyranny in Cuba would come here as refugees, as immigrants, and decades later embrace a wannabe dictator here.” Taylor declined to say how much Mad Dog PAC spent on the Miami billboard, but said that it would remain up for at least the next two weeks. Still, the billboard is drawing backlash, particularly from Republicans. Jaime Florez, the Hispanic communications director for the Republican National Committee, said the advertisement is in poor taste and seeks to exploit decades of trauma among those who fled Castro’s dictatorship.

“It’s trying to take advantage of the pain that the Cuban population has been experiencing for over 60 years, and trying to get quick and cheap political advantage for something that has been so painful for so many people,” Florez said. “It’s more proof of how desperate [Democrats] are. They haven’t been able to find a way to get to Latinos about something they care about.” Some Democrats argued, however, that the billboard acknowledges a simple truth about Trump, who has been accused of deploying authoritarian rhetoric and said last year that he would act like a dictator on his first day back in the White House if elected in November. 

Juan Cuba, the president of the Miami-Dade Democratic Hispanic Caucus, said Mad Dog PAC’s billboard isn’t the most compelling message to promote Biden’s candidacy, but added that he thought the comparison between Trump and other authoritarian leaders was appropriate. “I think it’s also undeniable that Trump admires strongmen, like [Russian President] Vladimir Putin and [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un,” Cuba said. “So, if the shoe fits.” No asshole the shoe is different. Trump doesn't admire them or went in to say he admired them. 

Obama said he admired the Castros, and went to watch Baseball games with Raul and was laughed at by Cuban TV as being a dumbass. IN Cuba they said he was an idiot for going there like he did... HE (Obama) got nothing in return for us and ended up opening the doors to Cuba for travel making those communists MILLIONS in tourist money. More ways these radical communists have tried to bring communist behavior too this country.
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Cuba under fire & BLM declared Ponzi scheme by Sen. Marco Rubio... FACTS!

With the violence escalating in my island of Cuba this month due to the treatment of the Cubans which has become a bloody war on the streets as the cops in Cuba are killing my people for simply wanting help with their human rights. This small island 90 miles away from Florida needs freedom, and the people are fed up and want their freedom. The left DemocRATS are trying to say this has to do with them wanting the Covid Vaccine, and while that might play a part the overall spectrum of the treatment of Cubans for the last 7 decades has finally come to a point that the people there are about to take matters into their own hands. This all started in one city in Cuba and it’s spreading, and now things have got so bad that the country socialist dictatorship has cut off internet access to the people. This folks is what socialism/communism is about, and how it does it’s people.

This is exactly why we need to stop this now here in America before this country becomes another socialist/communist country. Marco Rubio was on Fox and he laid this out about the Marxist domestic terrorist group Black Lives Matter. “BLM is a Ponzi scheme shaking down corporations” – Sen. Marco Rubio… FACTS!

This is about as factual of a statement ever made by Marco Rubio, and congrats on him for making this point about Black Lives Matter. This group is a domestic terrorist group, and what they have done not just in 2020 but what they continue to do is nothing short about what we see in all Marxist, and dictators lead groups. BLM is backing the Cuban government which has repressed my people for decades. With that said let me say it now.

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Kamala Harris Not Well Received in Miami

Good times!!! My people spoke up loud today! “No Communista” Kamala Harris was NOT Well Received in Miami as Latinos For Trump Lined the Streets to Make Clear They Reject Her Far-Left Policies. Kamala made a surprise visit to Miami on Thursday as Joe Biden hid in his basement bunker again. Maybe he’s afraid of his own shadow?

Fact is he’s not doing well with Latinos especially Cubans, and if the Sniffler wants to have a chance at Florida he’s picked the wrong person to be his running mate for VeePee! We can smell a communist pig or a socialist hog where every they crawl from! Filthy animals they pretend they’re fun, and if you skin them just right the bacon while delicious can be deadly! Wait sorry getting side tracked… Anyways. Latinos from South America and Cuba who have suffered under Socialist and Communist regimes have come to the US for a better life and they know Biden and Harris will usher in Socialism which = suffering and death.

Latinos for Trump came out and lined the streets of Miami on Thursday to make it clear they reject Kamala Harris. Like in 2016 I think Florida is going to go RED this election, and I’ll be out there voting if allowed.

“No Communista. No Socialista” one sign said. The Latinos for Trump made it clear that unlike Kamala Harris, they support the police with a sign that said “Apoyen La Policia.” The conservative Cubans and Venezuelans in Miami were not impressed with Kamala Harris’s pandering.

The Trump campaign is doing a great job of linking “progressive” Biden to Latin Socialists and revolutionaries. The Trump camp last month unveiled a powerful ad targeting Hispanic voters. The ad showed Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, Venezuelan Socialist Hugo Chavez and others bragging about being progressive.



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14-year-old confesses he shot his family Monday night.

No AR-15 used here guys or automatic rifle… A 14 a year old teenager called 911 to say he’d heard gunshots upstairs while in the basement… The 14-year-old repeated the story to deputies who arrived early today Tuesday morning, as they took stock of a horrific scene inside the home in Elkmont, Alabama all Five people had been shot like reported, the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office said. Three were dead, while two were airlifted to hospitals in critical condition.

They didn’t believe the teen’s story due to how inconsistent it was, sheriff’s office spokesman Stephen Young said and when investigators pressed in an interview, the teen confessed to the crime saying he had shot his father, stepmother and three siblings Monday night, and come Tuesday morning, all the victims were dead, the sheriff’s office said.

It was “a tragedy on a scale that we’re not used to here in Limestone County, Alabama,” Young told reporters. “This is going to have a ripple effect among family, among friends, among the local community here in the Elkmont area,” he added, saying, “This affects all of us.”

The teen, who has not been named and is being held in a juvenile detention center, is charged with five counts of juvenile murder. But he could face charges as an adult, Young said, and that Investigators are still working to understand the teen’s motive, he said.



The victims, according to the sheriff’s office, are the teen’s 38-year-old father, John Sisk, his 35-year-old stepmother, Mary Sisk, his 6-year-old brother, his 5-year-old sister and his 6-month-old brother. Authorities have not named the children. The teen helped investigators find the 9mm handgun he said he used and then tossed at the side of the road, according to the sheriff’s office.

The gun was in the house illegally, according to Young, who said he could not provide more details. Now key in on the fact this gun was in the home “Illegally” and so no matter WHAT laws you pass they would have done NOTHING in a case like this because once again when people want to own a gun they will, and you can’t search everyone’s home in the country without calling that a systematic dictatorship, and we don’t live in that.

But this is what the socialist want? Just remember Venezuela, Cuba, Nazi Germany for examples where that didn’t work. That would be here on a much larger scale. That is no good folks. You want to keep the freedoms we have? You can’t let them start to destroy our constitutional rights.

The media will try to spin this that we need more gun control or now is complete removal of all guns! Don’t let the spin fool you the left will use every shooting like it’s part of a massive problem. Yet less people die per year in these shootings or school shootings than smoking tobacco products or car crashes or even knife fights! We’re going to ban knives, cars, and smoking also? The whole debate is ridiculous, and only meant to weaken us defensively.

A spokeswoman for the Limestone County School District said the teen is a student at Elkmont High School, and Karen Tucker wrote in a statement that the district is “deeply saddened” by the events and that extra school counselors as well as counselors from the Limestone County Health Department will be available to help students, faculty and the community “for as long as there is a need.”

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