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Prologue to the article: After the deadly Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., national media focused largely on a handful of student activists, leaving it to victims’ parents to unravel why the slaughter happened. Andrew Pollack, whose daughter, Meadow, was one of the 17 killed, conducted his own investigation to uncover the roots of what he calls the most avoidable mass murder in American history. He and Max Eden are co-authors of “Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies that Created the Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students.” This adapted excerpt, based on never-before-released educational records of the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, shows the Broward County school district knew full well about his obsession with guns and murder — and then let him practice shooting at school.
1 posted on 09/09/2019 2:01:44 AM PDT by T-Bird45
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is this another meathead who warned the fbi?

seems like all the mass killers did, even the russians warned fbi about boston bombers.

whose side is fbi on?


2 posted on 09/09/2019 2:14:33 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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Cruz’s crazy adoptive mother brought him into the world by paying a violent convicted felon lesbian to get impregnated by a random man.

How could that have possibly gone wrong?


3 posted on 09/09/2019 2:15:46 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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And if the cop had done his job. And wasn’t there information that a teacher saw Cruz, who had been suspended(??), approaching the school with a bag(rifle case) and said nothing(??)

Unfortunately, it seems to me that as the dust starts to settle after one of these events, there are more questions that we’ll never get an answer to. And with each question and attempted answer, there are even more questions.

Of the many questions I have about this is, the couple that took him in, where did they go? Your son comes to you, asks you to take in a troubled/homeless kid, who just happens to have an AR and you let him hold onto it and think nothing of it. Kid is ‘homeless’ with no money and he’s got an AR. That doesn’t sound weird. And apparently the two of them were Intel Contractors with DoD(??)

Now, before all the 2A absolutist start bashing me for thinking anyone could have denied this teenager his 2A rights, slow down a bit. I know it’s easy to be a Monday Morning QB, in this case, but that doesn’t seem a little weird to anyone?


4 posted on 09/09/2019 2:17:42 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: PROCON; marktwain; Jack Black

This looks to be an important book.


7 posted on 09/09/2019 2:43:10 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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The NYPost should be commended for printing information that doesn’t fit the liberal agenda.


8 posted on 09/09/2019 2:44:39 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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Liberalism in action:

Students with disabilities are supposed to be educated in the “least restrictive environment” possible, regardless of whether their disability is that they’re dyslexic or a psychopath, and the paperwork requirements to send them to a specialized school can take many months.


9 posted on 09/09/2019 2:46:47 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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It is very instructive that the bereaved parents of the slaughtered victims are the ones literally forced to lead the search for justice.

The Broward PTB chickened out.

<><>The $800 million Broward police force some 5000-strong did NOTHING.
<><>Democrap Cong Debbie Wasserman Scultz is a Broward resident

An investigation showed the on-site officer:
<><> refused to investigate where the gunshots were coming from,
<><> retreated during the gunfire as victims were being shot,
<><> directed other law enforcement who arrived on scene to remain 500 feet away from the building.

As well. the gonad-lite mega-paid Supt Runcie (Obama's stupid pick)
did THE VERY LEAST he could do in the wake of the massacres. He needs to be unceremoniously ousted.

Runcie looked mighty worried (below) when the Sun Sentinel caught up with him for the story of multiple
exiting school officials....all of them subjects of the murdered students parents' escalating anger.

Supt Runcie alerted School Board members of the departure of human resources' Nichols, head since 2015 who ignorantly
overruled the firing of a school security guard found sexually harassing students, including one of the murdered students.

Parents were outraged to learn that School Security Guard Medina was still employed by the school.

In fact, Medina was the first to see Cruz on school property carrying a rifle bag that infamous day BUT DID NOTHING ABOUT IT.

Runcie placed the blame solely on the exiting Nichols. “Mr. Nichols signed off on it,” Runcie said at the time.
“I was not aware of it until after it was brought up." That’s all the $400,000 Supt had to say.
NOTE: Harasser Medina and another security type whose performance on Feb. 14 was deemed ineffective were let go.
(SOURCE: Sun Sentinel report)

Runcie is a stupid excuse for a $400,000 Supt..... doesnt understand IT IS HIS JOB to know these things and TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

13 posted on 09/09/2019 3:10:46 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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because if you do not embrace/engage a “special needs” person, you’re the bad guy. and now every misfit falls under that umbrella.


16 posted on 09/09/2019 3:22:45 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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Ping


17 posted on 09/09/2019 3:28:32 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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Mr. Pollack and his sons are doing great work. I remember the first time I saw him — during the chaos. He was sitting in his car wearing a “Trump 2020” shirt — a bold move in that neck of the woods. I believe he was waiting for his daughter, not knowing she had been murdered.


27 posted on 09/09/2019 4:09:08 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." A. Lincoln)
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“””Cruz’s records suggest that his reign of terror at Westglades Middle School began halfway through his seventh-grade year, in February of 2013. For the next calendar year, Cruz was suspended every other day. Why did the school allow him to remain enrolled despite his daily, deranged behavior for a full year? Not by negligence, but by policy.

Students with disabilities are supposed to be educated in the “least restrictive environment” possible, regardless of whether their disability is that they’re dyslexic or a psychopath, and the paperwork requirements to send them to a specialized school can take many months.”””


Here is how I see things.

The Leftist Run Government Schools intentionally create these monsters like Cruz so that at some point these monsters have a breaking point and shoot a bunch of people.

How else will the Leftists take away our rights to carry guns?


28 posted on 09/09/2019 4:26:20 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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I remember researching and sharing articles here about Runcie and his rather dubious past as a school administrator. Looking back, it is a very disturbing thing to think about how that person’s (Runcie’s) actions were that great deal responsible for what happened and that how the rotten and bloated celebrity culture tried to protect something like that, with Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney doling money out to David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez and the young activists they represented.


29 posted on 09/09/2019 4:26:26 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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I think those talking conspiracy should use a little common sense . . . if this kid was this psychopathic in MIDDLE SCHOOL he would have done something quicker if others were pulling the strings.

I wrote a lengthy recap of this incident for Inside Lacrosse (plenty of lacrosse connections in this horror show, including Andrew, who was the statistician for St. Thomas Aquinas down here and who plays Master events) and what the Post excerpted is pretty clear, a kid who finally took the last step in his fantasy and was able to do so because a LOT of adults f***ed up along the way. And a POSTER CHILD for who should have been ‘red flagged’.

Andrew (who I do know personally) is the true unsung hero of all of the aftermath, and I’ll be first in line to buy his book.


39 posted on 09/09/2019 4:59:55 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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I’ve heard Andrew on the radio a few times. He has tremendous inner strength. Scott Israel will be running for Sheriff again and will get reelected easily. Broward county has a majority of vile and disgusting people.


40 posted on 09/09/2019 5:18:39 AM PDT by rrrod
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The blood of the dead students is on the hands of Barack Obama

He was black before he was American


41 posted on 09/09/2019 5:31:33 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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Yet more proof of the worthiness of the President's claim...we don't have a gun problem,we have a “bat $hit crazy people being allowed to run loose” problem.
43 posted on 09/09/2019 5:42:11 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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Hey Tom Mauser - See this? This is how it’s done. Not wearing your kid’s shoes and camping out in front of NRA HQ.


44 posted on 09/09/2019 5:44:55 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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It almost seems like the Deep State is intentionally failing in order to highlight firearms are bad so they can be totally banned.

Now where did I put my tin foil hat?


51 posted on 09/09/2019 6:56:20 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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