Florida – -(AmmoLand.com)- Second Amendment supporters may not have noticed, but Governor Ron DeSantis recently suspended four members of the Broward County School Board for incompetence. This is something long overdue.
The fact is that these school board members had much more moral culpability for the 2018 shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland than Second Amendment supporters did – not that you’ll hear anything about it in the media. These people had multiple chances to start the ball rolling to stop the shooter – and failed.
This shooting led to the setbacks Second Amendment supporters dealt with in 2018, 2019, and 2020, as it was the pretext Andrew Cuomo needed to launch his attack on the NRA via weaponizing financial regulations. Jon Tester and Joe Manchin are sitting in Senate seats that were very winnable in 2018 because of Cuomo. We also don’t need to discuss two seats Georgia or a couple of Senate elections that were close.
Then there is the fact that Parkland minted a number of activists pushing anti-Second Amendment extremism. David Hogg, Fred Guttenberg, Emma Gonzalez, and others lost people they cared about, and have decided in the midst of grief – for some at an unimaginable level – that the millions of people who objected to being punished for past horrific acts of malice or madness over the years and decades prior to Parkland through their activism for the Second Amendment were somehow accessories to the actions of a lone shooter.
It’s bullshit, and we need to make sure that our fellow Americans know it is bullshit. We need to lay out the case as to who was really responsible. The media will spin it as us picking on the bereaved, but we have the right to protect our reputations and our rights, and we need to exercise it in a prudent manner, bearing in mind that how we come across will be as important as making the case.
That is why Second Amendment supporters should use these findings when discussing the issues with our fellow Americans. First of all, the incompetence that leads to these shootings is a threat to our rights – and we need to make it clear that if not for that incompetence, February 14, 2018, would have been just another day at Parkland.
It wasn’t just the failures of the school board at Parkland. The cowards of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office also failed. So did prosecutors, and not just at the state level. There is a need for some form of Project Exile to address places where Soros-backed prosecutors let bad guys walk.
Second Amendment supporters need to study and examine the state grand jury report that led to these suspensions, because it will help defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists via the ballot box at the federal, state, and local levels.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
A parkland parent who lost his daughter in the MSD-HS murder spree,
Andrew Pollack along with Max Eden wrote a book (Why Meadow Died)
that Mr. Hutchison would do well to read, just to give depth and perspective
to the subject. In 39 contacts with law enforcement, the murderer could have been placed into psychiatric observation under the “Baker act”. There is no need to destroy the rights of good people with the preponderance of red flag laws,
which only serve to empower government in an subversive way.
Not mentioned yet, but a big factor in the judgement of “incompetence” was that Broward County Schools was sitting on millions of dollars generated from a bond issue that included “school safety improvements” i.e. hardening but the Superintendent and board were sitting on the money “studying” the issue to death for political reasons when Cruz committed his rampage. “While we do not have any evidence to outright declare that the combination of inaccurate data reporting, antipathy toward law enforcement, facile falsehoods by administration officials, or the astonishing mismanagement of SMART safety projects led directly to the MSD tragedy, neither can… Read more »
This is also some belated accountability, maybe: Former FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault was reportedly escorted out of the bureau on Friday, amid whistleblower allegations that he showed political bias in his handling of politically sensitive investigations. The Washington Times reported eyewitness accounts that “Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator last Friday escorted by two or three ‘headquarters-looking types.'” The article appears to have been updated and now states that Thibault “abruptly resigned” but that he was “forced to leave his post” and cites two unnamed former FBI officials. Just the News… Read more »
Can you give the link to the docs and Summary of the 2nd A issues with which they failed? That would be so helpful!
Herby, I agree with most of what you commented. BUT/HOWEVER, The VOTING BOOTH helps not-a-lick when it is APPOINTED persons that have become part of the BUREAUCRACY(UNELECTED but sELECTED) ARE the PROBLEM! Most Americans do not understand that an individual APPOINTED must have a BOND of “security”. This BOND makes that person SUEABLE when it can be SHOWN they have BROKEN the TRUST(FAILURE of doing their job) of the community!
“Tester & Manchin are in seats that were winnable in 2018 because of Cuomo.”
Now that’s bullshit. Tester’s there today thx to phony A grades your closet-Dem access-lobbyist grifter pal LaPierre gave him even after he confirmed Sotomayor, Kagan & other grabbers. $100 says Manchin’s a similar story.
“We don’t need to discuss 2 GA seats that were close.”
Yes we do. Both were the kind of LOSER RINOs you back in primaries, then you blame US when the base becomes demoralized thanks to your “prag” picks.
So Little Quisling Harold supports the aggressive enforcement of gun infringements, which is what ‘Project Exile’ is all about. Cruz would not have been stopped by that. Aggressive prosecution of crimes like murder, assault, manslaughter, etc. – doesn’t need a gun infringement to put someone behind bars for a VERY long time; just apply the maximum penalty for major crimes! More importantly, criminologists cannot find consensus on whether Exile even worked. Exile was deployed at a time when the murder rates were already organically going down, so its’ overall effect is contested. And if someone is obviously mentally ill, you… Read more »