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Sheriff in Florida school shooting just issued stunning message to politicians [Dem Gun Grabber]
Washington Press ^ | 2/15/18 | Peter Mellado

Posted on 02/16/2018 3:25:15 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

It’s been over 24 hours since the heinous shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and the inevitable but ultimately empty outpouring of “thoughts and prayers” has turned into expressions of outrage...

“If you’re an elected official, and you want to keep things the way they are…if you want to keep gun laws as they are now, you will not get reelected in Broward County,” he declared to a huge roar from the crowd.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpress.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: grandstanding; guns; liberalleo
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To: JonPreston
Did Israel trigger cruz into this shooting rampage, so the 2nd Amendment could be rescinded?

We need a special prosecutor to look into this.

21 posted on 02/16/2018 3:49:56 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This shooting incident now sounds like the latest elaborate orchestrated plan to ramp up gun control? The evil deep state can’t stop salivating over disarming us into hapless sheeple. Ask yourself, why was the FBI so stupid as to allow this production to continue to conclusion?


22 posted on 02/16/2018 3:50:33 AM PST by iontheball (lLL)
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To: T-Bird45

I hear you and understand but at the same time do you realize you are taking about turning schools into prisons? I just don’t think that is the answer. I would rather see a bunch of retired grandpas with military or LEO backgrounds volunteering to roam the halls (with CCW).

Even better, end the indoctrination centers. If people want or see the need to receive education past the 6th grade let them pay for it themselves and chose for themselves the facilities that will meet their needs with the assistance of their parents. No more free public indoctrination centers, no more “school shootings”. Sell the properties and buses to reduce public debt.


23 posted on 02/16/2018 3:53:53 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: iontheball

And does ANYBODY believe “we couldn’t find him”? That is laughable on it’s face.


24 posted on 02/16/2018 3:55:33 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Travis McGee
“The FBI dropped the ball, again, so let's ban guns”

It's almost like they are doing it purposely. Take the short time heat, claim not enough money or men, it's for the children!! Build an even bigger leftists Bureaucracy with the goal of having their Rat Congressional Minions slowly eat away at the 2A.

25 posted on 02/16/2018 4:03:42 AM PST by DAC21
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To: DAC21

That big omelette needs many eggs.


26 posted on 02/16/2018 4:06:45 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wastoute

Prison??? I didn’t mention walls or fences or guard towers and you jump to the conclusion of prisons??? My point was to make schools the opposite of their current status of soft targets without becoming visually objectionable. Your grandpa idea has value IMO as another element of defense in depth, along with armed teachers who have the late coach’s attitude. My suggestions are just the outer perimeter things that reduce the threat possibly reaching the inner response team.


27 posted on 02/16/2018 4:16:19 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This would be the Sheriff in office and on duty at the time of the shooting event, no?


28 posted on 02/16/2018 4:19:45 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: T-Bird45

the writer’s bio at website: Peter Mellado is a writer, producer, and a branding and messaging specialist with over 15 years experience. He studied history at San Jose State University, and resides in Los Angeles.

14 Feb: Washington Press: Peter Mellado: The Florida school shooter’s social media posts prove he’s a far-right conservative extremist
What they’ve found paint a potentially disturbing portrait of gun nut enraged by progressive social movements and moved to act on his primal, irrational fears of everyone from Black Lives Matter to ‘Anti-fa.’the murderer.
“He always wore like really patriotic shirts that seemed really extreme,” SDHS student Ocean Parodie told The Daily Beast, “like hating on the Islamic religion. For example, he would say things such as like, he would degrade Islamic people as terrorists and bombers. I’ve seen him wear a Trump hat.”

Alt-right social media trolls are so worried about the narrative developing that Cruz carried an act of far-right terrorism that they’re circulating a photo of him wearing a shirt with communist iconography as proof that he’s somehow a part of the far left. But it’s not working...

Twitter user @sloppysteve420 decided to search less conventional “Nikolas Cruz” and found numerous disturbing comments on police videos and other similarly violent footage posted to a Russian You Tube clone site called ruClips.com...
http://washingtonpress.com/2018/02/14/florida-school-shooters-social-media-posts-prove-hes-far-right-conservative-extremist/

15 Feb: Washington Press: Peter Mellado: Another gay Olympian just humiliated Mike Pence with a brutal joke
http://washingtonpress.com/2018/02/15/another-gay-olympian-just-humiliated-mike-pence-brutal-joke/

Facebook: Washington Press: Sheriff Scott Israel is done waiting for the Republican Party to act.
from the comments:
Love R Jacquelyn Some of these elected officials were elected through the Russian interference in our election..not only is 45 illegal so are the republicans who were seated I. January

Jack Leatherman Let’s put all the senators and congressmen in a class room and let an idiot come in with an AR 15 and start blasting. Would they make some better gun laws then?
https://www.facebook.com/washingtondcpress/posts/1891453577553662

enough said.


29 posted on 02/16/2018 4:25:28 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MuttTheHoople
Did Israel trigger cruz into this shooting rampage, so the 2nd Amendment could be rescinded?

It's being reported that the authorities previously responded to the Cruz's house 39 times before the blood bath. Did Israel, or his deputies ever respond to his house? Did Israel or his deputies ever visit this school, or other schools in Broward county and talk to students? It seems like a good idea since many kids had Cruz pegged as a potential shooter. What proactive methods does Israel employ in an effort to prevent school shootings?

30 posted on 02/16/2018 4:32:18 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

Florida massacre: Broward Sheriff Scott Israel’s plea for gun control
Washington Post-1 hour ago
On Wednesday evening, as the country picked through the wreckage of another mass shooting, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, flanked by a Florida governor with an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association, made a pitch for gun control. “I’ve said this time and time again,” Israel began

notice it’s not “President Trump” in the headline:

‘This is the time to save lives’ Florida Sheriff stands up to Donald Trump over guns
Express.co.uk-19 hours ago
But Sheriff of Broward County, Scott Israel, said it was the “time to save lives” as he called for tougher gun rules for those with mental health issues

you can imagine what Snopes thinks!

Snopes: Did the Florida Shooter’s Instagram Profile Picture Feature a MAGA Hat?
A photograph purportedly showing Nikolas Cruz in a red “Make America Great Again” hat was taken from his Instagram account.
Broward Sheriff Scott Israel also seemed to confirm that the “nikolascruzmakarov” account was authentic when he said that Cruz had posted disturbing photographs of dead lizards to social media...
The “nikolascruzmakarov” account (the Instagram handle appears to be a combination of the suspect’s name, Nikolas Cruz, and “Makarov,” the name of a Russian semi-automatic pistol) does feature images of dead lizards...
https://www.snopes.com/did-shooters-instagram-picture-maga-hat/


31 posted on 02/16/2018 4:35:47 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: SoFloFreeper

It happen in Dade County for a reason.


32 posted on 02/16/2018 4:38:08 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Dear Democrats,

Guns are off the table.

Us.

33 posted on 02/16/2018 4:51:07 AM PST by papertyger (Bulverism: it's not just for liberals anymore.)
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To: papertyger

just noticed this bit in the UK Express article I posted in #31 - don’t know why it says “two weeks ago”:

“Just two weeks ago Mr Trump signed a bill into law rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illness to purchase a gun.
The rule meant people receiving social welfare checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs would be added to the national background check database.”

this links to earlier piece:

15 Feb: Newsbusters: Nets Push Fake News Trump Made It Easier for Mentally Ill to Buy Guns
by Nicholas Fondacaro
Fresh off their disinformation campaign in the immediate aftermath of the Parkland, Florida school shooting in which they falsely claimed there had been 18 school shootings this year, the three major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) moved on to another fake news topic they wanted to push on the American people: President Trump and the GOP made it easier for mentally ill people to buy guns.

The accusation that a bill designed to remove restrictions and allow the mentally ill to purchase guns was passed by the GOP and signed by President Trump had long been debunked. As the National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke wrote over a year ago, what got removed was “in layman’s terms: The rule would have allowed bureaucrats within one of our federal agencies to bar American citizens from exercising a constitutional right — and on the highly questionable grounds that to be incapable of managing one’s finances is, by definition, to be a ‘mental defective.’”

And the bill wasn’t even supported by the NRA. But it was supported by the liberal ACLU and the American Association of People with Disabilities. Yet that didn’t stop the networks from pushing lies...

It should be noted that all three of the networks backed off and didn’t repeat the bogus claim about there being 18 school shootings since the start of the year. BUT, all of them left it out there and didn’t correct their reporting from the previous night...
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/02/15/nets-push-fake-news-trump-made-it-easier-mentally-ill-buy

Snopes, as usual, plays its part:

Snopes: Did President Trump Revoke Gun Background Checks for Mentally Ill People?
Mostly true
https://www.snopes.com/trump-sign-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-illnesses/


34 posted on 02/16/2018 4:59:28 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: SoFloFreeper

Isn’t he preaching to the choir? (Yes.) Isn’t Broward County very left-wing? (Yes.) Wouldn’t they elect gun control advocates anyway? (Yes.) Pompous posturing for the cameras, with the goblin Debbie Wasserman Shultz flanking him.

As for the rest of the country, does Israel recall how the rest of the country voted in 2016 — and why?


36 posted on 02/16/2018 5:03:42 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
If one is Jewish and not strongly supporting the 2nd Amendment, one is a really dim bulb.

Google "Nazi Germany" or "World War 2" or "Stalin"

37 posted on 02/16/2018 5:27:30 AM PST by caddie (Tagline: Tag, you're it.)
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To: Travis McGee

I doubt a gun ban would have stopped the evil doers in the graphic.

Gun free zones are essentially a kill zone for evil. It’s a billboard saying no one is going to shoot back.


38 posted on 02/16/2018 5:43:28 AM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: MAGAthon

I’m still trying to figure out how he purchased the gun “legally” if he wasn’t 21 years old.


39 posted on 02/16/2018 5:57:19 AM PST by papertyger (Guns are off the table)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Why doesn’t the sheriff show us how it’s done and get rid of all of HIS firearms?


40 posted on 02/16/2018 6:04:27 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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