And: An Investigation Into Broward County’s School Board & Superintendent
And this Twitter thread, from the author of the second link, a Parkland student
Background: Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
The gist of this post can be summarized almost completely by this excerpt from the first link:
1. The School Board after a $100 million dollar appropriation for school security in 2014, they failed to spend it, including a failure to modify the fire alarms to turn off if there is not a real fire, which would likely have saved lives along with other enhancements.
2. The School Board had a policy to keep students out of jail, going so far as to instruct school resource officers that when a felony is committed by a student that they could consider arresting them, not that they should arrest them, but they should just consider it as an option.
3. Cruz "was never arrested despite threatening to kill students, bringing bullets to school, and being involved in multiple fights."
4. No school board member or other administrative officials have been fired or required to resign for their malfeasance and disastrous policies to date.
Again, the mainstream media and professional journalists didn't pick up on this, it took a student journalist to be interested and persistent enough to dig this up, and it again destroys the blame the NRA narrative.
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The sheer amount of fail before, during, and after the shooting is rather staggering. Verily, it takes a village to mess this up this consistently over and over again. So of course, instead of blaming themselves for this causal chain of events a mile long and years in the making, they decided to blame the NRA.
While the media and gun grabbers have been using that reprehensible little douchebag David Hogg (he of the Nazi salute and armband fame) to advance their disarmament agenda, another Parkland student did the homework on the real fault(s) for the shooting. Read his Twitter thread above, and Medium article, if you can stand it.
If anyone want to know why I think less policing, less taxes and less government would be a good thing, have a close look at this situation and see how much throwing money and government management behind school security helped. If your answer is "not at all", then you and I just might be on the same side.
And of course, this is just another data point for how completely useless the news media is. It took a kid to do what they couldn't do. Or wouldn't. I'm not sure which makes them look worse.
Coda: then there's this, if you're not pissed enough: Parkland student ‘interrogated’ for shooting AR-15 at gun range
So get this - the school and police can't or won't lift a finger to stop a monster, but they're all over this guy for exercising his Constitutional rights in a safe and legal setting. Pretty typical, actually. Policing criminals and dangerous people is too much work. It's much easier to hassle the law-abiding.
And there's nothing the police and authorities can do that pisses me off more than that.
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