More gun grabbing narratives plundered

When discussing the Stoneman Douglas high school shooting with a gun grabber recently, I stated my position on school employees carrying. Specifically, I endorse an "opt in" provision which would allow employees with a conceal carry permit to bring their firearm to work. The anti-gun guy (who couldn't have been more civil by the way) replied "There were trained police officers in FL school. First it was we need someone with a gun. And now we need more guns in school?"

I was aware that there was one armed resource officer on site, though I didn't know why he didn't engage the shooter. I guess I gave him the benefit of the doubt by saying he was likely checking on the fire alarm that sounded upon the gunman deliberately activating it.

As it turns out, I was being too generous.

The only armed sheriff’s deputy at a Florida high school where 17 people were killed took cover outside rather than charging into the building when the massacre began, the Broward County sheriff said on Thursday. The sheriff also acknowledged that his office received 23 calls related to the suspect going back a decade, including one last year that said he was collecting knives and guns, but may not have adequately followed up.

The deputy, Scot Peterson, resigned on Thursday after being suspended without pay after Sheriff Scott Israel reviewed surveillance video.

“He never went in,” Sheriff Israel said in a news conference. He said the video showed Deputy Peterson doing “nothing.”

“There are no words,” said Sheriff Israel, who described himself as “devastated, sick to my stomach.”

Keep in mind this was less than 24 hours after pro-gun activist Dana Loesch questioned Israel on his department's failures to follow up on these numerous calls.

Dana Loesch rips Sheriff Scott Israel during the CNN Town Hall for missing tons of red flags on the school shooter, including 39 calls to his home.

Isreal said she was wrong and asked where she got her facts.

CNN was the first to report the 39 calls: https://t.co/2xVAP0AevJ pic.twitter.com/bgpPXL5Hib

— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) February 22, 2018

This whole tragedy is once again a cautionary tale of how we need an investigation to play so as to gather all the facts and thus respond accordingly. Ah, but when you're on a decades long mission like gun grabbers have been, that is totally unacceptable.

It’s almost as if the narrative and agenda were set long before we knew a lot of pertinent facts. Strange how that happens.

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 23, 2018

In sum, because the FBI failed, local law enforcement failed, the resource officer failed, and the security feed was on a 20 minute delay, we must curtail the second amendment lest law abiding citizens get hurt by madmen.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 23, 2018

Leftists like to accuse pro-second amendment advocates and NRA members of caring more about guns than the lives of children. If that's the kind of game they wanna play, then let me offer up one. Gun grabbers care more about their slanderous narratives than the lives of kids.

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