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Multiple officials, and his own mother, wanted Florida shooter mentally committed
Turns out that, years before he committed the school shooting, two school counselors and the school security guard (yes, that one) recommended that the shooter be committed, based on his cutting himself, telling another classmate to get a gun and use it on people, drinking gasoline, etc.. But no one acted on it.
What is telling to me is that they all "recommended" this. Nobody did anything, all passed the buck (I suspect to the principal, who probably had nowhere to pass the buck and so they settled for ignoring it). If a kid had nibbled a cookie into the shape of a gun, they probably would have imposed discipline, because the kid was harmless and so it was safe to beat up on them. But with a person who was really a problem, it was best to ignore it or pass the buck. Which in a way is a metaphor for modern gun (and crime) control.
UPDATE: Speaking of which, a New Jersey school suspends students because they posted pictures of themselves at a shooting range, on a non-school website. School policy allows suspension of a student "reported to be in possession of a weapon of any type for any reason or purpose on or off school grounds." For any reason, and on or off school grounds. Punishment for posting a photo in any venue, of a lawful activity... sounds like a First and a Second Amendment violation to me. So this is the standard: truly violent cases will be overlooked, peaceful exercises will be punish, because dealing with the first is risky while dealing with the second is safe.
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The political left did an extremely effective job of keeping that would-be school shooter on the street.
Fake "protocols" meant for public consumption weren't followed by FBI, BSO or the SRO, since the real protocol was to do nothing, even to the extent of doing nothing while kids were being killed. "Do nothing" is the left's real protocol for handling potential school shootings, so that they can get the body count that they need to drive their gun ban agenda.
If the left, so ecstatic over the political effect of the body count from Parkland, could go back in time and prevent it, would they? I believe not, because they couldn't stand the emotional letdown. They need dead kids, and they mean to get them.
This has been true approximate;y forever - and kids learn it at an early age - the kid who occasionally acts out, but is genuinely contrite about it will get more pressure and correction than one who does not act contrite and who simply appears to be "incorrigible". Bad actors with real mental health issues (like Cruz here) quickly discover that they can do or say almost anything, and they'll be ignored by the discipline system.
But the school system is just the place where this appears - they, in turn are under pressure to NOT acknowledge these bad actors because dealing with them is somehow "racist, classist or oppressive".