I’ve already talked about what I think is the root cause of the February 14th massacre in Parkland, Florida. But as the truth continues to emerge, it’s clear that there were multiple secondary factors ~
 
• Gun –free zones

According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, “gun free zones” (areas where guns are prohibited) have been the target of more than 98% of all mass shootings. This staggering number is why such designated areas are often referred to as “soft targets,” meaning unprotected and vulnerable.

• Psychiatric drugs ~

A disturbing number of perpetrators of school shootings and similar mass murders in our modern era were either on — or just recently coming off of — psychiatric medications.

 
• FBI and Sheriff’s office failure to act on tips/red flags ~

YouTube blogger and bail bondsman Ben Bennight who says he contacted the FBI himself after spotting a disturbing comment in one of his videos supposedly written by Cruz. “I’m going to be a professional school shooter,” the comment read.
 
It’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive and catastrophic failure from beginning to end than that of the sheriff’s office in the Parkland massacre. It ignored warnings that were specific and chilling about the shooter and at least one of its deputies waited outside the school while the shooting occurred. (And perhaps others did as well in the immediate aftermath.)

 
• Deputies’ cowardice ~

On Friday, it was reported that Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, who served as the armed school resource officer, did not enter the school as the shooting occurred.
 
But Peterson wasn’t the only one — three other Broward County Sheriff’s deputies also remained outside the school with their pistols drawn as they took cover behind their vehicles, CNN reports.

But what we’ve just started to discover in the last few days – possibly the most infuriating revelation surrounding this tragedy thus far – is that, not only was Stoneman Douglas High School a gun-free zone, it was a consequence-free zone. Thanks to the curiously-named “Promise” program, Broward County schools have been rendered impotent when it comes to punishing bad behavior.
 
Ostensibly created to prevent students with minor infractions from turning into hardened criminals, “PROMISE” (Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education) has turned out to be just another progressive reality-free endeavor ~

(The program), funded in part by the federal government, (incentivizes) local officials to do everything they can to keep juveniles out of jail […]

 
Which essentially meant that the safety of law-abiding students at Stoneman Douglas took a backseat to coddling trouble-makers.
 
Daniel Horowitz at Conservative Review explains how criminal justice ‘reform’ will cause more Parklands ~

As Catharine Evans writes at the American Thinker, Broward County “had the highest number of school-related arrests statewide at 1,062” before Obama began his Common Core-style grant programs for local jailbreak agendas. Once millions of dollars were doled out for juvenile feel-good programs to avoid arrest, such as the PROMISE program, the number of arrests plummeted by 63 percent from 2011-2012 to the 2015-2016 school year.
 
As Broward County Sheriff Deputies Association President Jeff Bell told Laura Ingraham last week, PROMISE “took all discretion away from law enforcement to effect an arrest if we choose to.”

Even if the goal was legitimately aiming to go easy on non-violent youthful offenders in the vague hope that they would eschew a life of crime…

… the problem is that because they are attached to state and federal grant programs, the political leadership of law enforcement departments have every incentive to pressure their officers against making arrests across the board.

[Money talks; perps walk.]

 
Even worse, as Horowitz explains, this trend toward über-leniency, is evident at every level of law enforcement, federal, state and local, across the country. It’s all part of the progressive strategy to erode the civil society ~
 

In addition to promoting open borders and importing criminals from other countries, George Soros’ organizations have made it a priority to gut the entire tough-on-crime agenda that has worked so well in recent decades. They are pushing on all levels of federal, state, and local criminal justice systems to reduce sentencing and release prisoners, particularly younger criminals, in addition to restraining effective policing tactics. They give it the Orwellian name of “criminal justice reform.”
 
Of course, their end game is more felons voting, which we have vividly witnessed in Virginia, Maryland, and now in Florida at the behest of the courts. It’s no different from the end goal of the amnesty agenda: a permanent Democrat majority […]
 
The entire criminal justice “reform” movement has created a culture, pressure, and incentive for cops and county governments to be as lenient as possible when it comes to incarcerating juveniles, the exact opposite of the cultural pressure from the past two decades.

 
It’s the criminal justice system itself that’s in critical need of reform! Tragically, Broward County schools’ “PROMISE” to young miscreants, ended up betraying the innocent. Shameful.

 
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• The School-To-Mass-Murder Pipeline
• Try enforcing existing gun laws before launching new ones
• New School Policing Info Marks Scott Israel An Ayn Rand Villain
• Broward State Attorney’s Opened At Least 66 Cases Of Criminal Misconduct Into Sheriff’s Office
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