"Too Disturbed to Carry a Backpack" but not an AR-15

[mia]

Everyone knew Nikolas Cruz was deeply disturbed. He'd been in and out of mental health treatment. He'd been kicked out of school. His Instagram page was full of photos of dead animals and weapons. He was so frightening to teachers that he'd been banned from even carrying a backpack into school.

So how does a guy like that get his hands on a military-style weapon capable of pumping dozens of rounds into innocent victims without even reloading? Well, this is Florida, so he just walks into a gun shop and buys one.

“It was his gun,” family lawyer Jim Lewis said. “The family made him keep it in a locked gun cabinet in the house, but he had a key.”

Because this is America and NRA-funded stooges such as Marco Rubio and Donald Trump run the country, nothing will change after yesterday's massacre. But if we lived in a sane nation, the details emerging about Cruz would inspire a strong debate about how to tighten access to weapons for the mentally ill — not to mention a realistic move to renew the ban on assault rifles like the AR-15 and on high-capacity magazines.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/nikolas-cruz-legally-purchased-ar-15-despite-long-history-of-mental-illness-warnings-10089980

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. It does go to show how security theater is just that.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Gun "sense" is to allow individual states to make laws against ownership of any or all guns

outside of a well regulated militia.

In a well regulated militia, like the National Guard, very few would have access AT ALL to these guns let alone taking them home.

This is, after all, what the Constitution says,

[logosoco]

3. hmmm Yet Rick Scott is trying to pawn this off on being the FBI's fault.

Looks to me like not much could be really be done at the local level either. So it looks like Scott is not only trying to put the blame on the Feds he is also trying to deflect attention from the local level.