“News” item “breaking out” this morning. I chose the less incendiary article.

ZOMG! The NRA trained the Killer! They are a terrorist organization!

And the first paragraph does help in creating that narrative.

“The troubled teen authorities say killed 17 people at a Florida high school excelled in an air-rifle marksmanship program supported by a grant from the National Rifle Association Foundation, part of a multimillion-dollar effort by the gun group to support youth shooting clubs and other programs.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, was wearing a maroon shirt with the logo from the Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when he was arrested Wednesday shortly after the shooting. Former JROTC cadets told The Associated Press that Cruz was a member of the small varsity marksmanship team that trained together after class and traveled to other area schools to compete.”

Damn the NRA, what the fuck they were thinking? What did they do?

“Records show that the Stoneman Douglas JROTC program received $10,827 in non-cash assistance from the NRA’s fundraising and charitable arm in 2016, when Cruz was on the squad. The school’s program publicly thanked the NRA Foundation on its Twitter feed.
A spokeswoman for the NRA declined to comment on Friday. The top officers of the foundation are all current or former executives of the NRA.”

So they did not train Nikolas Cruz… but they gave money… wait, it was a no-cash assistance. So what did they give to the schools JROTC? Kevlar Panels among other things.

“Junior Colton Haab, a second lieutenant and platoon leader in the school’s JROTC, told The Associated Press that he helped usher about 90 students into the room where cadets train with pellet rifles. Haab moved the Kevlar sheets used as a backdrop for target practice away from the wall and told everyone to hide behind them. As it was, the shooter never approached the ROTC rooms.
Haab said he sees nothing negative about the NRA’s contribution to the JROTC program. In fact, he said, the equipment the group funded could have helped save the students’ lives if the gunman had targeted them.

“So I think the NRA actually bonused us in a way,” he said.”

OUCH! And it has already been covered but the NRA’s contribution is not mentioned.

Allow me to correct myself on that last remark because the original article does mention the NRA’s contribution, but what you don’t see is where it is mentioned. Bear with me with the net screen capture: Although reduced in size, it is long but needed to prove the point.

The blue square encircles the opening statement I posted at the beginning. The red square parcels out the part where the NRA-Donated shields were used to protect students. The AP Journalists spend half the article seeding your mind with the idea of the evil NRA’s hand directly steering the tragedy, but they finally fess up but only so far down that maybe they hope you don’t bother to read it… or just they couldn’t fit it before for reasons unexplained.

I don’t need to help you add two plus two. And no, I do not think it was a mistake on their part. I do believe they are that much of a scum.

(WBNG) — The FBI released the following statement Friday:

On January 5, 2018, a person close to Nikolas Cruz contacted the FBI’s Public Access Line (PAL) tipline to report concerns about him. The caller provided information about Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.

Under established protocols, the information provided by the caller should have been assessed as a potential threat to life. The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami Field Office, where appropriate investigative steps would have been taken.

We have determined that these protocols were not followed for the information received by the PAL on January 5. The information was not provided to the Miami Field Office, and no further investigation was conducted at that time.

FBI statement on shooting in Parkland, Florida

OK people, here is a tip: If you are afraid that somebody may go postal, call the FBI and make sure to tell them you think he is Russian and working for Trump. A FISA warrant will be issued in 3 hours and he will be under full surveillance one hour after that.

And if you really want to be a prick to your Liberal friends, specially those suffering from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) tell them that “If the FBI was not so intent on finding nonexistent skeletons to hang on Trump, they may have actually saved 17 lives. But since they were too busy being all “#NotMyPresident”, making False News and looking for collusion, those kids died. “

If you do the last, specially in Social Media, screen cap the exchange to enjoy their reactions.

Seen over ENDO

And in the “Never let a tragedy go to waste” category with an honorable mention for “Do it for the Children”, the nominated is Broward Sheriff Scott Israel who is now demanding to be given unilateral powers to involuntarily commit anybody he deems a danger for posting stuff that scares him like “graphic pictures of rifles, of blood…horrific language…”

You want to know so far this year which has been the most popular post in this blog? ND: One bullet, three holes which qualifies as enough to have me involuntarily committed for “blood” according to Sheriff Israel. Same goes for discussions I had just in the last couple of days about Defensive Shootings and their legal consequences. And I wonder if the picture of my bolt action rifle qualifies as disturbing enough to have a BSO car sent to my door. I know my language is salty enough that a butt–tight emissary of the Sheriff may be able to consider it “horrific.”

Basically Sheriff Israel he wants to dilute the Baker Act into nothing. What bothers him (and others with delirium of Statism) is that when invoked, the officer must do so under oath and starting with a full report that is the basis for all other actions and eventual presentation to a judge and same goes for the medical personnel. Why? To avoid abuses of power, to avoid the “Ooops, my bad (giggle)” arrests used as punishment (or a way not to overload their Drunk Tank) that can ruin people’s lives.

We have seen what loose mental commitment laws can do to people and specially when they ran afoul of Gun Grabbers like in the case of Albert Sheakalee in California. And with the Broward Sheriff’s Office long and undignified record of being viciously Anti Gun, make no mistake they will be targeting gun owners just because they can and not because any specific or imaginary thread.

Sheriff Israel has asked not only the Legislators in Tallahassee but the ones in DC and I am sure we will be hearing from Senator Kamala Harris about bringing forward legislation that will make involuntary commitment easy to achieve and without any risk to Law Enforcement officers if the fuck up. She has a history of exercising that kind of abuse when she was California’s Attorney general.

Hat Tip Robert E.

And that includes a lot of people on our side.

As you can imagine, Social Media has been inundated of the typical arguments against guns and the Second Amendment. Nothing new there but it makes me laugh when you get a foaming-at-the-mouth Liberal to crap in their pants when you let them see the very possible consequences of a door-to-door order of confiscation.

My guess is that in their exalted self-importance, they think Police Officers will blindly follow their orders while they sip some chia latte comfortably at home and nothing will happen to them. Cops are not stupid, cops will pause and think: “Wait one, we are supposed to go kick the doors of at least 70 million people, armed with over 350 million firearms, well over a trillion rounds of ammunition and the desire to use them by orders of a bunch of idiots drinking Himalayan kombucha and eating organic ramen tofu? Fuck that shit!”

I can predict with a high level of certainty that the outcome of a nation-wide confiscation order will be just the opposite of what Gun Control advocates will expect.