Federal Program Protected Parkland Shooter From Arrests
There was a federal program created by the Obama
Administration to end the "school to prison pipeline." The Trump
Administration is trying to cancel the program, but this is being hampered by
legal action and administrative delays.
The program subsidized school counseling to replace arrests for
criminal offenses on school grounds. This program meant that the Parkland
shooter was counseled instead of arrested numerous times. The result was that
the Parkland shooter was able to buy guns, because he lacked an arrest record,
and the FBI couldn't find him, and didn't take tips about the Parkland shooter
seriously, because there was no arrest record. Here's the best link on it, but
there are more, if you need them.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/02/28/obama_administration_school_discipline_policy_and_the_parkland_shooting.html
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/02/28/obama_administration_school_discipline_policy_and_the_parkland_shooting.html
Here are some more links to how the program was
developed, and how it was intended to work. Please note the emphasis on
limiting arrests, regardless of the crimes committed. Here's 5 more links on
the program. Some are in favor, some against:
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/04/10/sperrybroward_art.html
https://www.tolerance.org/m...
http://neatoday.org/2015/01...
https://www.usatoday.com/st...
https://www.city-journal.or...
https://veneremurcernui.wor...
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/04/10/sperrybroward_art.html
https://www.tolerance.org/m...
http://neatoday.org/2015/01...
https://www.usatoday.com/st...
https://www.city-journal.or...
https://veneremurcernui.wor...
Gun
Restraining Orders Are the Best Way to Address the Problem
School shooters generally have noticeable mental and social
problems. The system generally knows
about these individuals, like the Parkland shooter, but claims it can’t do
anything about them. First, authorities
need to arrest and jail them if they commit assaults on teachers or other
students. That gives them an arrest
record and warns the potential perpetrators not to go any farther. But now there’s a new tool, a gun restraining
order. It gives authorities something
between jail, or involuntary commitment in a mental institution, and letting a
time bomb walk free. After a hearing, a judge can remove the right
of a defendant to own weapons. The
burden of proof is less than for involuntary commitment. This was recently enacted into Florida
law. Gun Restraining Orders are
supported by the NRA.
The
Purpose of the Second Amendment
The purpose of an
armed US populace is to check the federal government's ability to exceed its
specified powers under the Constitution. This argument was put forward as
a rebuttal to arguments against the Constitution, that the federal government
would have so much power that it would oppress the people and would be able to
impose a military dictatorship. See the last 2 paragraphs of Federalist
Paper 46 in this link:
The last two paragraphs of the link say that the Federal
Government will not be able to abuse its power because the residents of
America, unlike the residents of Europe, are armed with military grade weapons
and would be able to organize themselves into militias that would outnumber the
federal army. Some argue that Federalist
paper 46 is not the same as the 2nd Amendment. However, the same man, James Madison, wrote
both of them, about 18 months apart.
Federalist Paper 46 was published 29 January 1788. The Bill of Rights was introduced in Congress
on June 8, 1789. I think that Federalist
Paper 46 is a good indication of James Madison’s intent in writing the 2nd
Amendment.
For those of you who would argue that people armed
with AR-15s and other "assault weapons" would not be able to fight a
federal army today, please consider the amount of time it took the Iraqi Army
to take Mosul, even though it was using large amounts of US artillery and air
strikes. It took over 9 months, from October 17, 2016, to late July, 2017, to
take Mosul from ISIS. ISIS was armed mainly with AK-47 rifles (true assault
rifles) and improvised explosives, with a few captured machine guns and
mortars. I think this shows that the 2nd Amendment is still an effective check
on the Federal Government.
You should also consider that there are at least 5
million privately owned "assault weapons" in the US, and there are
over 300 million privately owned guns overall. This means that there is more
than one gun for each US resident. There is no way you can confiscate all of
the guns out there. Don't bother to deny that's what you really want. We don't
trust you. "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
Malarkey on steroids. The left lies for a living.
The typical pro-gun voter believes the 2nd Amendment is a
guarantee that the rest of the Bill of Rights will not be canceled
unconstitutionally by the federal government. They view any effort to curtail
gun rights as the first step in an unlawful move towards dictatorship. Since
the left is already trying to cancel Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech
in places the left controls, like college campuses, pro-gun voters increasingly
feel the left is not dealing in good faith. They are likely to resist violently
any effort to confiscate guns or have the Supreme Court reinterpret the meaning
of the 2nd Amendment. I don't see any way any grand compromise can be reached
on this issue.
Self
Defense is a Natural Human Right
Both the Founders and a substantial number of people today believe
that self defense is a natural right.
Both the Founders and many people today believe that self defense
requires military weapons. If you don’t
believe that, ask yourself how Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were able to kill
about a quarter of Cambodia’s population, about 2 million men, women and
children, in the killing fields between 1975 and 1979. Cambodians had no weapons to defend
themselves with. You say that could
never happen in the US. Before 1960,
almost everyone would have said it could never happen in Cambodia either. The Khmer Rouge Communists were an
unprecedented event in Cambodian history.