Here is a collection of articles confirming that access to guns is not the definable or even confinable culprit as regards the 17 death massacre by a nutcase at a Florida high school.
From The Daily Caller, by Peter Hasson (photo montage/meme not from article, thanks to TN)
The FBI Keeps Missing Mass Shooters Before It’s Too Late
Revelations that the FBI had been warned about Florida high school shooter Nikolaus Cruz fit an all-too-familiar pattern, in which apparent law enforcement errors have preceded mass murders.
The FBI was warned about Cruz after he posted on YouTube saying he was going to become a “professional school shooter.” The agency said they couldn’t identify the user who made the threat, despite Cruz posting under his own name. Five months later, Cruz pulled the fire alarm at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and began shooting his former classmates with his AR-15.
Other mass shooters and terrorists were similarly on the FBI’s radar — or should have been — before they carried out their deadly attacks.
Dylann Roof, who in 2015 shot nine people at a black church in Charleston, was allowed to purchase his weapon in part because of errors by FBI agents during the background check process, the agency said.
Pulse shooter Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to ISIS before killing 49 people at the Orlando nightclub, similarly seemed to have fallen through the cracks. The FBI investigated Mateen twice before the slaughter but ruled him not a threat both times.
The FBI knew that Fort Hood shooter Army Maj. Nidal Hasan had been in contact with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, but declined to investigate him. A congressional probe found that the FBI had failed to alert the Army about Hasan, and that the shooting could and should have been prevented. Hasan killed 13 people and wounded dozens of others in the 2009 shooting.
The FBI similarly missed opportunities to stop Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers behind the 2013 Boston Bombing, a government review found. Russia warned the United States that Tsarnaev had associations with Islamic terrorists, leading an FBI-led task force to question the future terrorist. The agent who interviewed Tsarnaev closed the probe “having found no link or ‘nexus’ to terrorism.”
The task force was alerted a year later that Tsarnaev was leaving the country for Dagestan but declined to interview him or stop him from leaving the country. FBI agents later said the failure to interview Tsarnaev was a “huge” error, according to Boston Magazine.
Another school shooter who was on the FBI’s radar killed two students at a New Mexico high school just two months ago. Although the killing doesn’t meet the government’s definition of a mass shooting, the shooter was known to the FBI. The agency investigated the shooter, 21-year-old William Atchison, in 2016 after he commented online about committing a mass shooting.
From RedState:
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/02/15/reminder-fbi-stats-show-98-mass-shootings-occurred-within-gun-free-zones/
From Townhall:
Foiled: Grandmother Stops Grandson’s Alleged School Shooting Plot In Washington
From Heritage Foundation Daily Signal:
6 Common Media Myths About Gun Control
Also from The Daily Caller
Tucker Carlson Challenges Gun Control Proponent To Stop Pushing ‘Dumb Crap’
From The Federalist, Rebekah Jorgensen:
Want To Prevent Mass Shootings? Stop The Wall-To-Wall National Media Coverage
When a troubled teen sees the chance to suddenly be elevated to a national platform, he may just take that opportunity.
Also via Redstate:
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/02/15/follow-israels-already-proven-lead-dealing-school-shootings/
We are not big on making schools too isolated and are concerned about the socio-psychological implications of virtual prison schools . . . but allowing discrete armed teachers and or having security guards commensurate with size of school, perhaps with dual duties, seems appropriate for now. We would not be big on federal mandates from the Department of Education. Responsible parents curtailing impressionable youth’s access to media glorifying horrendous violence would be a good thing. R Mall
