Posted on 02/14/2018 4:00:07 PM PST by McGruff
The former student suspected of opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland may have been identified as a potential threat to fellow students in the past, according to one teacher.
The 19-year-old ex-student, who has been detained by Broward police, has not been publicly identified as a suspect. But a law-enforcement source identified him as Nicolas Cruz.
“We were told last year that he wasn’t allowed on campus with a backpack on him,” said math teacher Jim Gard, who said Cruz had been in his class last year. “There were problems with him last year threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus.”
The Broward County School District Superintendent, however, told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that he did not know of any concerns raised about the student.
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Of all the violence in this country committed by persons under 20 years of age, do you have evidence that would suggest that most or ‘every’ perp has been on antidepressants?
Here is part of the problem Joe...
Mummy and Daddy don’t want to deal with the kid so they slough it off on the schools, the schools don’t want to deal with it and give the kids meds, because the feds don’t want to deal with your kid either.
Kid feels discarded.
I listened to a straight A adolescent tonight that is confused and angry because she gets mixed messages from Gov.
In her case the Family is doing the yoemans work.
Do we have verification of anything except the dead in this situation?
Nope, just mass shooters.
They are nuts Jim, Whether its them or the meds
Ping for later
Ping for later
If I’m not mistaken, federal law has a 21 year minimum for any handgun purchase. Florida’s requirements couldn’t be any lower than that.
Gun free zone.
Expect to hear about mandated long term psychotropic use.
Why do you think it was a handgun?
How is a handgun more deadly that a rifle? Or a car?
We don’t even have that yet. If that’s a photo of the shooter, we need to spread it because the media will bury it.
I didn’t say that I thought he used a handgun. The question I was responding to asked about a 21 year age limit. The only such limit that I’m familiar with is the federal handgun requirement. While some states could have that age restriction on long guns as well, I don’t know of any.
So far, I haven’t seen any information released on the number or type of the guns he used.
There isn’t really any value in interrogating him. Not really.
The reason why he is taken alive is simple. Most police are decent and professional, and NOT murderers. When they locate him, if he throws down the gun, as much as those cops despise him, they could not force themselves to drop a hammer on him. Not if he is surrendering. That’s the difference between them and the murderer.
Conversely, if he presented the right threat, the cop would fire in an instant response, almost on autopilot. Lots of cops who thought they would never be able to fire, did so instantly when the imagined circumstances suddenly lined up.
This general concept pops up a lot when they arrest very vile types such as a pedophile in the act, a cop killer, etc. That’s how they take them alive... kind of because they are trained hard that way, and because they are willing killers by training, but not murderers by temperament.
As far as I know FLA is 18 for long guns and 21 for handguns.
Kid should have been flagged as a threat, more so if there where mental probs and drugs
So another white hispanic, huh?
I teach high school.
Kids don’t give a damn about the government.
Many of them lack competent parents.
Some of the kids are in medication.
Without it, they could not function.
However, no pill tells a kid to shoot up a school.
I believe that’s the case for most states but possibly not all of them.
I taught my kid how a gun worked at 10 or 12, taught him to NEVER point it at anything you don’t wish to destroy.
Screw up on muzzle discipline? Mental discipline? Rights revoked!
Agreed
Well this could be a lengthy class teacher Joe.
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