Who’s grandstanding? You make the call:
I'm so old I remember when leadership meant taking responsibility for things under your control.
I thought he'd be voted out the next time he's up for re-election. Clearly, he has to take responsibility for the actions of his deputies when over and over they seem to have missed the boat on this one.
I do caution everyone: Even IF every officer who went to Cruz's home on a 911 call had said to themselves, "This kid is dangerous," what could they have done? Cruz had been referred for mental health counseling. He had a social worker following him. Could he have been arrested, the way the 21 year old in Rochester just was, for threatening to shoot up a high school? A 19 year old high school student in Ellsworth Maine was arrested over the weekend for saying he was aiming to break the record of 17 for killing people in a school shooting. Could the Florida police have arrested the kid for a threat that didn't specify a particular person?
Let's find that out first. The other thing is, would a misdemeanor such as the above show up on a NICS list anyway?
There are questions I want answered before I tar and feather the guy. He obviously blew it, but how tightly were his hands tied?
