Interesting that 17 students are killed in a gun ban zone and they want to turn this entire nation into a gun free zone. And they do so by denying the truth, which is that the FBI ignored warnings about the shooter:
President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday night that the FBI was too caught up in the Russia probe to see the signals leading to Wednesday's shooting massacre at a south Florida high school.
The next morning, student survivors from the school shared their disappointment with the president's tweet — and voiced their displeasure much in the same way Trump often does: Via Twitter.
Trump referred to the FBI's admission earlier this week that it failed to investigate a Jan. 5 tip that warned that Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old man who is accused of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., posed a deadly threat.
"Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable," the president tweeted late Saturday night. "They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign – there is no collusion."
Yet in response on Sunday morning, students from the south Florida high school blasted Trump's message. Many of the survivors — who in the days following the massacre have voiced strong opinions in favor of gun control — were upset over how the president appeared to link the FBI's failure to stop Cruz to his own troubles stemming from the Russia investigation.
This is how putting our self defense solely in the hands of the government works:
The police officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned Thursday, under investigation for failing to enter the building as a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people.
Sheriff Scott Israel said Deputy Scot Peterson should have “went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.” Video footage showed Peterson did none of that, Israel said.
The sheriff’s office also said Thursday that two deputies were put under investigation for how they handled potential warnings about Cruz, including one from November in which a caller said Nikolas Cruz “could be a school shooter in the making.”
Peterson, 54, came under scrutiny after 19-year-old Cruz entered a school building with an AR-15 rifle and killed 14 students and three educators on Valentine’s Day. Cruz later confessed, police said.
The sheriff said video shows Peterson was outside the building for “upwards of four minutes” while students were gunned down inside.
“What I saw was a deputy arrive … take up a position and he never went in,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “There are no words. I mean these families lost their children. We lost coaches,” Israel said.
Peterson resigned, and subsequently retired, at 12:37 p.m. Thursday after he was suspended without pay earlier in the day, Israel said. An investigation into what happened will continue.
Instead of teaching students about the importance of the United States Constitution, which includes the Second Amendment, the public schools are indoctrinating students with anti-America propaganda that has now invoked them to protest against the Constitution and asking the government to turn the entire nation into a pubic school where citizens are not allowed to defend themselves and instead are to depend on governmental officials to save us from the evil inculcated in a God free zone. The Florida shooting is proof that the students' idea does not work.
And the media is promoting the idea that these kids know more than their elders. This demonstrates the lack of respect too many students have in regard to authority. Instead they want to be the authority, but the result will be them having less control over their lives, if they are allowed to have their way with the issue of gun control.
Teachers and journalists have been turned into useful tools by those who want more control over the citizens of this country. On at the top of that totalitarian agenda is to take guns away from us. Time for Americans to resist having this entire country turned into a public school, and now take action to reform our public schools which have proven to be dangerous and dysfunctional, as they have been turned into centers of entertainment. Playing out violent video games seems to not be much fun.
Is this how Americans really want to live? Carry rifles and sidearms into every bar, church, and arena? A gun is like a lawyer: you carry one around long enough and sooner or later you're going to use it.
Red states are not going to fix their own problems.
Only We the People can slow these people down. Local law enforcement is only as effective as a legislature wants it to be.
Gun carrying people are saying they are being responsible (but won't be held liable) for our safety if the rest of us don’t, or refuse to, carry.
Thomas Jefferson believed a standing army and the right to bear arms are mutually exclusive.
Stand your ground has become vigilante justice because the courts are overwhelmed with suspects in the war on drugs, our communities are becoming armed camps and we’re barricaded in our homes afraid to let our kids go to school.
How many more people will be caught in or die from as yet uncounted crossfires?
Maybe this would be a great time for a piece of rhubarb pie.
Wyoming is most heavily armed state, South Dakota is number 22.
Prohibition doesn't work: levy 100% excise taxes on the sales and gifting of the weapons on Senator Diane Feinstein's list then tag the revenue for Medicaid expansion.
Posted by: larry kurtz | February 23, 2018 at 08:25 AM
Ironic that your public education has made you such a lousy editor, Sib. You obviously never proofread your own copy.
Posted by: larry kurtz | February 24, 2018 at 12:08 PM