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Response to hexola (Reply #2)
Response to MichMary (Reply #15)
(especially about the "yammering halfwit of a president" thing. I may use that in the future.)
There is a lot of "not my fault" going on in that department. By total coincidence I've been reading a lot about Columbine lately. Protocols were different then, and law enforcement followed standard protocols as they existed then. But there was still a lot of totally appropriate criticism of local law enforcement.
At the time of the massacre, Eric Harris should certainly been in prison. He had been arrested on a felony charge, but placed in a diversion program. Diversion would have ended if the complaints about him had come to light. But everything, multiple complaints by the Brown family of actual threats, had simply been filed away, a search warrant was never executed (had it been, the pipe bombs would have been found,) and there was no communication between the diversion people, law enforcement, and the school.
The cover-up continued long after the shooting. The records of the prior complaints and the search warrant disappeared, and as far as I know, were never found.
This case reminds me so much of what happened in Colorado in 1999. If the threats had been taken seriously by the FBI, if Cruz had been arrested during one of the 39 visits to his home, if, if, if . . . Seventeen people would still be alive.
The chilling thing about this is that there are probably hundreds of cases where shooters have not fallen through the cracks. We don't hear about those cases, because there has been effective intervention.
Don't mean to have been so snarky with you. I do see where you are coming from, and we are all a bit on edge, with the yammering halfwit in charge. 
the Broward County protocols must include standing around and waiting for another department to come in and save the day. 
something to that effect. But this whole arm the teachers thing also comes down to money. A lot of money is to be made to outfit and train all those teachers. Who will benefit from this STUPID idea? The gun industry and the NRA will. I believe it is no coincidence that he is pushing this bullshit.
All I know is that I was away with my Trumper sister while this was going on and she was horrified...HORRIFIED, to hear this trashbag float this 'idea'. She works in a school - she knows just how insane that would be. She is disgusted and let him just keep keeping on because I'm telling you he is shedding support one person at a time..but just like his hair....he's shedding. He is done in every single way.
