Ray9
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Democrats in the Broward County School District from Florida decided that too many kids were getting police records for committing crimes. So they came up with a novel solution-order the police to leave them alone and stop arresting them for crimes at school.
At first this appeared to be working like a charm as arrests went way down. They were essentially cooking the books on an issue of cultural and moral decay to get a result that made it a numbers game. But it backfired. Nikolas Cruz went to a gun store with a clean police record in spite of a long history of what would be criminal threatening and physical assaults anywhere in the country but Florida. Cruz’s spotless, counterfeit background check was a death warrant for his victims.
Seventeen people, mostly students, died a horrific death because a cabal of local politicians and school officials in Florida imposed an ill-advised program of social engineering onto a public that trusted the school district with the safety of their children. Broward County Sherriff, Scot Israel, was shouting from the rooftops that he had reduced crime rates citing the results of the no-arrests scheme that was amassing huge amounts of money in federal grants.
Israel and his political cronies had succeeded in tilting the table to get a result that made it appear the maneuver was working. Israel and Broward county school superintendent, Robert Runcie, silenced opponents by trotting out the altered data of bad policing and it worked right up until Nikolas Cruz exposed the fraud with the corpses of dead kids.
Incredibly Israel was handed control of the surveillance video on the day of the shooting and has publicly stated that he may never release it. The cowardly actions of Scot Peterson, the school resource officer, are documented by students on the scene but the video would likely frame the Broward police inaction as standard policy leading to deaths of the kids.
Now politics and partisan public policy are reverting to the default position of blaming guns for the tragedy as if removing an inert artifact (guns) from the public domain would have saved those kids. It was the public corruption of local politics in Broward County that killed the students.
Punishing the law abiding public for the malfeasance of incompetent officials by taking way their guns will solve nothing. But that’s what some want.
At first this appeared to be working like a charm as arrests went way down. They were essentially cooking the books on an issue of cultural and moral decay to get a result that made it a numbers game. But it backfired. Nikolas Cruz went to a gun store with a clean police record in spite of a long history of what would be criminal threatening and physical assaults anywhere in the country but Florida. Cruz’s spotless, counterfeit background check was a death warrant for his victims.
Seventeen people, mostly students, died a horrific death because a cabal of local politicians and school officials in Florida imposed an ill-advised program of social engineering onto a public that trusted the school district with the safety of their children. Broward County Sherriff, Scot Israel, was shouting from the rooftops that he had reduced crime rates citing the results of the no-arrests scheme that was amassing huge amounts of money in federal grants.
Israel and his political cronies had succeeded in tilting the table to get a result that made it appear the maneuver was working. Israel and Broward county school superintendent, Robert Runcie, silenced opponents by trotting out the altered data of bad policing and it worked right up until Nikolas Cruz exposed the fraud with the corpses of dead kids.
Incredibly Israel was handed control of the surveillance video on the day of the shooting and has publicly stated that he may never release it. The cowardly actions of Scot Peterson, the school resource officer, are documented by students on the scene but the video would likely frame the Broward police inaction as standard policy leading to deaths of the kids.
Now politics and partisan public policy are reverting to the default position of blaming guns for the tragedy as if removing an inert artifact (guns) from the public domain would have saved those kids. It was the public corruption of local politics in Broward County that killed the students.
Punishing the law abiding public for the malfeasance of incompetent officials by taking way their guns will solve nothing. But that’s what some want.
