Had any of us used similar verbiage, the request to meet with a United States senator most probably would’ve been turned down, but we are talking about the expectations of self-appointed Hollywood royalty who are used to belittling others while getting their way.

So Milano was granted a meeting with Senator Cruz, as she was also slated to be in the District for a summit luncheon with Mayor Muriel Bowser. After all the insults by Milano, she showed up in the senator’s office… with two others for support.

There was even a Facebook live stream, as the unlikely pair met on Capitol Hill, along with Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jamie was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Parkland, Fla., mass shooting. Guttenberg has since become an activist on the issue of gun violence.

Tuesday’s meeting was also attended Ben Jackson, co-founder of #NoRA, an anti-NRA organization “inspired by the Parkland shooting,” according to its website.
— USA Today, 9/10/19

The duration of the video that was live streamed came out to around an hour and fifteen minutes, which you can view at your leisure. That is, if you can watch a timid bully who enjoys throwing rocks from a distance have to confront one of her demons less than a yard away. Of the 75 minute video, Milano spoke for roughly ten….

It wasn’t as epic as billed, in fact it was rather boring because the Twitter shields were down. Now, had this meeting taken place in a bar and the camera was turned on after the second round, this could have been extremely entertaining. Instead, Ted Cruz was restrained while Milano came off as condescending, a tad bossy, and relatively unprepared to have a real policy discussion but that was kind of expected.

After Milano left, she just had to take to Twitter and have the last word… behind Cruz’ back while again, lecturing us on “civility”.

I just left. He was gracious. I’m unsure if it changes anything. But appreciative for the opportunity to bridge the divide with civil, meaningful, discussion.
— @Alyssa_Milano Tweet, 9/10/19

It probably won’t change much as upon Milano’s return to Los Angeles, protected by distance, she’ll take aim at President Trump and his supporters, the NRA, Senate Republicans, and the last thing on her mind will be to bridge the divide with civil, meaningful, discussion.

Obviously a person in custody for such criminality would incur the wrath of the social media anonymous-brave, so it would be proper and understandable if comments were disabled and the “friends” of that person were made invisible, but the public would still be able to go back and piece together possible motivation without the faux-intellectual speculations of the media; at times in gross error to the detriment of the innocent.

Aurora Shooting: ABC’s Brian Ross Incorrectly Suggests Tea Party Link
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If the Facebook and Twitter accounts weren’t so quickly removed, the media couldn’t have so easily spread an incorrect profile because the truth would be there for all to view. Obviously, lawyers would be screaming about the privacy of the accused and who knows, maybe there would be enough within that person’s profile to clarify a true motive.

Is the public’s right to know more important than the perils of media speculation, seeing how they’ve been known to sit on important details that offend their politically correct tendencies?

We all knew kids who were called “hyper” in the classrooms. If disruptions occurred, it normally resulted in the parents being informed and the behavioral issues subsided rather quickly.

In the 90’s with children in elementary school, I noticed a pattern. There were no longer those daily gym classes to burn off that excess energy and recess activities were gradually reduced. Dodgeball, Four Square, Tag and other physical activities were outlawed seemingly because the visibly overweight and/or aging female principals and teachers saw little value in monitoring young children who liked to do normal things like run around.

It also appears many of those teachers, along with parents who couldn’t find the time to deal with the issues a hyper-active child brings, deferred to doctors who prescribed medications to quell their child’s natural energy and it’s clear there is a correlation between the increased carnage at our schools and the cocktails of psychotropic drugs that eventually make a child snap.

We’ve been warned since 2000 by Dr. Peter Breggin, M.D. when he testified in front of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations; not only about the psychological and physical damage that prescribed narcotics can cause in children that really don’t need them but also the nefarious politics pushed by the pharmaceutical industry in concert with lazy parents and educators that would much rather drug kids as to avoid any kind of education reforms that would require accountability.

Dr. Breggin was motivated to write Reclaiming Our Children by witnessing, along with millions of other Americans, the events surrounding the shootings at Columbine High School as they unfolded first on television and then in the print media. Dr. Breggin’s book begins with a description and analysis of these tragic events in Littleton, Colorado, and then moves on to examine our government’s response at the White House Conference on Mental Health. He criticizes biological psychiatry and psychiatric drugs as a solution to the suffering and rebelliousness of America’s children. He also presents strong evidence that psychiatric drugs commonly cause psychoses and aggression in children, and that they probably contributed to individual cases of school violence.
— Peter R. Breggin M.D., Psychiatric Drug Facts

Access to readily available violent imagery while under the influence of these drugs doesn’t help either; again a factor we didn’t have back in the day when there were zero school massacres. Of course, the entertainment industry always counters with there being no proven correlation with the constant bombardment of graphic violence in their productions and/or video games despite the horrific acts we’re witnessing today.

So, despite the current media/activist narrative (but it’s not political), it’s NOT all about guns and the kneejerk call for additional legislation.

Until we have parents who will give their children the time and care they require, teachers who aren’t quick to refer a fidgety child to a doctor who’s quick to prescribe addictive narcotics, and an industry more than eager to supply drugs that are as potent as the strongest illegal street drugs, children will continue to display the symptoms that will eventually lead to he or she harming themselves or others.