The scandal behind the Florida school shooting is about federal coercion, not guns

[FakeNews]

A thousand different things might have prevented the Parkland shooter from killing 17 people at a Florida high school last month. But among the most likely measures would have been the intervention of local law enforcement after any one of dozens of complaints about him from neighbors, family friends, and classmates.

Why didn’t it happen? The shocking truth is that local officials failed to intervene not because of an oversight or a mistake, but because of a deliberate policy put in place to secure federal funding.

Last week, Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations reported that Broward County School District, the country’s sixth largest, “was in the vanguard of a strategy, adopted by more than 50 other major school districts nationwide, allowing thousands of troubled, often violent, students to commit crimes without legal consequence.”

The goal of the policy was to reduce the “school-to-prison pipeline” by making it more difficult for school officials to suspend or expel problem students, and to make it harder for local police to arrest them for certain crimes—some of which the 19-year-old shooter allegedly committed before his February 14 rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. According to Sperry, the strategy came straight out of Washington.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/20...da-school-shooting-federal-coercion-not-guns/

 

[WoundedKnee]

This topic is a bit stale. The braindead, "Oh Shiny," crowd seems to have drifted back to their religion of abortion.

 

[phrodeau]

So Trump did it, that fucker. Always helping out his cronies.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Serious jinx. You say braindead and who shows up? Bill Nye, the Science Guy.