The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School exposed breathtaking levels of incompetence throughout the Broward County Sheriff’s Department. It started at the top with the preening, clownish Sheriff Scott Israel and from there to Captain Jan Morgan, who ordered responding deputies to form a perimeter around the school rather than enter and challenge the … Read more
A federal judge has refused to dismiss the National Rifle Association’s challenge to a 2018 state law that blocked people under age 21 from buying guns. Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office argued that Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker should dismiss the case, which challenges a law that the Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott approved … Read more
I feel sorry for Fred Guttenberg for the loss of his daughter in the Parkland shooting, but even that bit of sympathy has been stretched thin by his demand that everyone else in the country be rendered as helpless as Jaime was. Very, very thin. As Guttenberg blurted out on Twitter upon hearing of Bailey … Read more
File this under least surprising news of the day. The US Secret Service has studied school shooters and found that — shockingly — almost none of them “just snapped.” To the contrary, virtually every one of them exhibited warning signs and, as such, the murders they committed could have been prevented. Probably the most egregious … Read more
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) wants to leave our children unprotected in their schools. She opposes allowing school staff to tool up. And now, in a new editorial, she proposes eliminating armed school resource officers, leaving our nation’s children utterly undefended from madmen and losers. The Dems’ wild-eyed front-runner in the race for president does her … Read more
By Bobby Caina Calvan, Associated Press The Florida Senate handed a political victory to Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, as the chamber backed the suspension of a county sheriff who the Republican governor said bungled the response to last year’s mass shooting in Parkland that killed 17 people. The 25-15 vote for removal was no … Read more
By Justin Caruso A new book co-written by Andrew Pollack, the father of a teenager killed during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High School in February 2018, contains a number of shocking details about the shooter Nikolas Cruz and his erratic behavior in school. Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow was killed in the shooting, co-wrote … Read more
Under the category of people who have no apparent self-awareness or any internal meter that tells them when it’s time to just go away, former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is running to get his old job back. In fact, he’s holding a fundraiser tonight at a restaurant in Davie, Florida to raise cash from, … Read more
Law enforcement officers many not have a legal duty to protect citizens, but that doesn’t mean law enforcement agencies are required to continue to employ those who don’t. Now that Governor Ron DeSantis has dumped the grandstanding, incompetent Scott Israel, the new Broward County Sheriff, Gregory Tony, is continuing to remove those who sat back … Read more
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