In the wake of Florida’s Valentine’s Day school shooting, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel went off on Dana Loesch during a CNN town-hall event focused on gun control dialogue, which resembled a communist “struggle session” more than anything else.
It was evident that there wasn’t a singe supporter of the Second Amendment in the audience. The audience booed Loesch while she told the story of a rape victim who wishes she had been armed, and chants of “murderer!” could be heard no fewer than three times.
Israel, pretending to have the moral high ground, told Loesch “I understand that you’re standing up for the NRA. And I understand that’s what you’re supposed to do. But you just told this group of people that you’re standing up for them. You’re not standing up for them until you say ‘I want less weapons.’”
He touted his 39 years in law enforcement before telling Loesch, “we know how to keep America safe.”
No one doubts that police keep us safe (ironically, except some pro-gun control leftists), but no one doubts that “police response time” is a thing either. They can’t teleport to every crime in progress to end it.
That’s why many on the right have proposed increasing security in schools, by either introducing armed guards, or allowing teachers who already have concealed carry permits to carry their guns on campus. Some liberals were quick to pounce on those arguments, pointing out that the Parkland school Nickolas Cruz carried out his attack on had an armed guard.
So clearly that didn’t stop the attack, right? Yes – but entirely due to the guard’s own cowardice.
According to CBS,
New questions are being raised about whether the gunman in the Florida school shooting could have been stopped. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Thursday that armed security officer Scot Peterson had a chance to stop the shooting and did not. Video at the scene showed he never went inside.
Documents released by the sheriff’s office show that the school resource officer had information about the suspect and his “potential to carry out a school shooting two years before it happened.” But it’s his actions the day of the shooting that led to his suspension.
It’s apparent that Cruz was on everyone’s radar – the FBI, and the very armed guard at a school he’d later shoot up.
When everyone who could’ve prevented this tragedy failed, how is it the NRA is the villain here?
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