We don't have a gun problem, we have a school problem.
The school as a social unit (the main argument in favor of government-run schools) took this kid into their midst-an orphan whose adoptive dad died in NYC where they were from.
After that, the mom moved the family down to Florida, like so many New Yorkers do to escape the excessive taxation and cost of living for a more free place to live.
She put the 2 brothers into the local school district.
The perpetrator was bullied and continually victimized, soon walking around with his head down and afraid to make eye contact with other human beings.
He eventually formed a relationship with a female student there, after a life of constant loss of close relationships and abandonment.
Somewhere along the way, his relationship with the girl turned violent, he was involved with some physical altercations with other students, and his adoptive mom died November 1st. He was also caught with firearms-related contraband in his backpack (ammunition).
He was expelled from the school, and went to another school. Some friends of his family's allowed him to live with them, while he apparently was working towards his GED. They also allowed him to store his firearm there, as long as it was locked up. What could go wrong?
Everything points to him wanting to seek revenge for the hurt he experienced at the school, including the rejection from his girlfriend and bullying from other students.
There are literally dozens of statements from other young adults who attended the school who said, "It was no surprise to us. We used to tell him all the time he would be a school shooter some day." There are at least 36 official red flags or witnessed statements related to him intending to do felonious violence against other human beings at the school, including statements on youtube which were reported to the FBI ("I'm going to be a professional school shooter.")
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/who...ed-n848266
Law Enforcement and School officials were repeatedly warned about these red flags, including multiple statements that he made declaring his intent to shoot up the school.
I guess it only makes sense then that I should be arguing with people about why I need to own AR15s????
Logic-school doesn't teach it. School teaches you to be emotionally-controlled like a Pavlovian dog, while forming negative relationships with peers and authority figures who have zero business being authority figures in your life, as your family's importance in your life is invalidated.
But because our parents were conditioned to go into massive debt to pay for houses only the bank could afford for them, both parents enslaved themselves away from the family to pay the bank's interest and principle on the house, along with auto loan, insane student loans, and credit card debts to buy the latest consumer trend. This ensured that no nurturing adults were in the home during the day to be able to instruct the children anymore like with the GI and Silent Generations.
Most of Generation X became latchkey kids with an empty token family unit. Schools became more and more relied on to feed and supervise children/young adults, while dumbing them down dumber and dumber with each generation. We received a garbage schooling in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, that has progressively reached new lows in stupidity and illiteracy.
Even then, I learned how to use then and than, too/two/to, I as a subject and not an object, and other basics in grammar and usage that seem to have disappeared even from the teachers' level of bare bones competency.
This particular school district enacted a policy before the Teyvon Martin incident where felonious and misdemeanor offenses would not be treated as such, as not to add "too much stigma" to young adults in order to "help" them better adjust to society. They turned off all the warning indicators, while agitating an extremely vulnerable young man who they eventually rejected.
Nobody was surprised when he returned for vengeance.
His actions are deplorable, reprehensible, and unacceptable, but to isolate him from the whole picture makes about as much sense as calling for a ban on AR15s....
...because I can make a much more logical argument for cutting any funding for an institution that behaves in such a reckless and damaging manner.
The school as a social unit (the main argument in favor of government-run schools) took this kid into their midst-an orphan whose adoptive dad died in NYC where they were from.
After that, the mom moved the family down to Florida, like so many New Yorkers do to escape the excessive taxation and cost of living for a more free place to live.
She put the 2 brothers into the local school district.
The perpetrator was bullied and continually victimized, soon walking around with his head down and afraid to make eye contact with other human beings.
He eventually formed a relationship with a female student there, after a life of constant loss of close relationships and abandonment.
Somewhere along the way, his relationship with the girl turned violent, he was involved with some physical altercations with other students, and his adoptive mom died November 1st. He was also caught with firearms-related contraband in his backpack (ammunition).
He was expelled from the school, and went to another school. Some friends of his family's allowed him to live with them, while he apparently was working towards his GED. They also allowed him to store his firearm there, as long as it was locked up. What could go wrong?
Everything points to him wanting to seek revenge for the hurt he experienced at the school, including the rejection from his girlfriend and bullying from other students.
There are literally dozens of statements from other young adults who attended the school who said, "It was no surprise to us. We used to tell him all the time he would be a school shooter some day." There are at least 36 official red flags or witnessed statements related to him intending to do felonious violence against other human beings at the school, including statements on youtube which were reported to the FBI ("I'm going to be a professional school shooter.")
Quote:Students who encountered Cruz said he talked a lot about having fun with firearms, so much so that some joked that if anyone were to attack the school, it would probably be him.
Cruz "threatened to bring the guns to school multiple times," senior Eddie Bonilla said. Other students, he said, "threw jokes around that he'd be the one to shoot up the school."
Students and teachers said Cruz had been a member of the U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/who...ed-n848266
Law Enforcement and School officials were repeatedly warned about these red flags, including multiple statements that he made declaring his intent to shoot up the school.
I guess it only makes sense then that I should be arguing with people about why I need to own AR15s????
Logic-school doesn't teach it. School teaches you to be emotionally-controlled like a Pavlovian dog, while forming negative relationships with peers and authority figures who have zero business being authority figures in your life, as your family's importance in your life is invalidated.
But because our parents were conditioned to go into massive debt to pay for houses only the bank could afford for them, both parents enslaved themselves away from the family to pay the bank's interest and principle on the house, along with auto loan, insane student loans, and credit card debts to buy the latest consumer trend. This ensured that no nurturing adults were in the home during the day to be able to instruct the children anymore like with the GI and Silent Generations.
Most of Generation X became latchkey kids with an empty token family unit. Schools became more and more relied on to feed and supervise children/young adults, while dumbing them down dumber and dumber with each generation. We received a garbage schooling in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, that has progressively reached new lows in stupidity and illiteracy.
Even then, I learned how to use then and than, too/two/to, I as a subject and not an object, and other basics in grammar and usage that seem to have disappeared even from the teachers' level of bare bones competency.
This particular school district enacted a policy before the Teyvon Martin incident where felonious and misdemeanor offenses would not be treated as such, as not to add "too much stigma" to young adults in order to "help" them better adjust to society. They turned off all the warning indicators, while agitating an extremely vulnerable young man who they eventually rejected.
Nobody was surprised when he returned for vengeance.
His actions are deplorable, reprehensible, and unacceptable, but to isolate him from the whole picture makes about as much sense as calling for a ban on AR15s....
...because I can make a much more logical argument for cutting any funding for an institution that behaves in such a reckless and damaging manner.
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6.5 Grendel Reloading Handbooks & chamber brushes can be found here:
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