Your school administration and local Sheriff refused to do anything about Mr. Cruz.
That’s how he killed your friends.
It’s sickening how badly they screwed up.
No amount of kindness or compassion alone would have changed the person that Nikolas Cruz is and was, or the horrendous actions he perpetrated. That is a weak excuse for the failures of our school system, our government and “our gun laws”. ................................ Our gun laws are fine, does she know them, were they enforced? Mental instability has no laws? Just let them mix in society and when they wish to do harm, they will have a vast selection of ways to do it. Cruz just picked one that was handy. If the gun was not handy, he would have used other means. One cop with an MP5 instead of a Glock would have been all the protection that was needed. It would have represented an immediate danger to the perp., thus diminishing the success of his plan.
Most school administrations are useless as a screen door on a submarine. The only thing they understand is lawsuits and or political pressure. They talk a great game about bullying but when it comes down to it they will back the bully every time unless the issue is pressed extremely hard.
I dealt with bullies with my children twice, once on a bus when a kid broke my sons glasses on purpose. I called the principal and he immediately started the song and dance about the kids home life and I cut him short and asked is this bullying yes or no? Yes, then do something about it or I will, my son will stomp this little punk tomorrow with my blessing. Oh we can’t have fighting he exclaimed! You already have aggression happening on one side I said, tomorrow you will get it from both sides. You better do something now. He kicked the kid off the bus for the rest of the year. The kid apologized to my kid and left him alone.
My daughter got caught up in a high school social media drama by essentially befriending a girl who was very poor and had few friends. One girl decided to harass this poor girl on social media and because my daughter had befriended her she got attacked and told to back off and my daughter to her credit told the little jerk, you don’t pick my friends and so she started in on my daughter. I knew the principal and showed him the evidence and he dithered a bit. A year earlier this same thing happened to a male student on social media and nothing was done and lies were told and this poor kid got beaten to a pulp.
So I let him know up front, deal with this immediately or I will pull my daughters uncle who is a cop into this and seek restraining orders, take legal action and take you and administration out of the equation altogether. He dealt with it and it stopped all the way around, my daughter and her friend. You have to literally force school administrators to do their jobs where bullying is involved they just will not do the right thing, they won’t.
***Your school administration and local Sheriff refused to do anything about Mr. Cruz.***
I remember a principal of a school who had also been a gym teacher. He said he never stopped such fights or bullying because it was just kids sorting out “the pecking order”.
Good name for it. Ever seen chickens kill anther chicken low on their social order totem pole? I have. they all peck at the back of the neck till they bring blood. In a day or two the chicken is dead.
Same for dogs, baboons, and other animals. There is a reason animals rejected from the social order is referred to as a “rogue”.