Broward County's distinction--which you point out--is truly something out of Gulliver's voyage to Laputa, if you are familiar with the Swift classic. Only someone incompetent or pernicious would fail to see the utter stupidity in making certain that wayward youth never have to face the consequences of their misdeeds.
Consider, instead, the wisdom of the Founding Fathers on subjects related to an armed citizenry. It is the difference between night & day, good & evil; rational & utterly insane.