Morning Jolt: ‘How Do We Keep [Reducing Arrests] Without Making the Schools a More Dangerous Place?’

Despite the intensity and anger of the gun debate, everyone in America is in agreement on one thing: Nikolas Cruz should never have been able to get his hands on a gun. What we're now learning is that local law enforcement — and indeed, even the FBI — had several opportunities to prevent him from being able to purchase a weapon legally and did not do so, by choosing not to press charges, despite a recurring pattern of violent and dangerous behavior and multiple warnings from Cruz's peers.

Just what do you have to do to get arrested in that county?

The Miami Herald and BuzzFeed lay out multiple times Cruz could have been arrested and charged with a crime, but authorities chose otherwise.

First, February 2016:

One key misstep in Cruz's case came in February 2016, when a Broward deputy responded to a report that the teenager "planned to shoot up the school." An Instagram photo of a "juvenile" with a gun prompted the tip, according to a time line ...

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'How Do We Keep [Reducing Arrests] Without Making the Schools a More Dangerous Place?' Jim Geraghty Despite the intensity and anger of the gun debate, everyone in America is in agreement on one thing: Nikolas Cruz should never have been able to get his hands on a gun. What we're now learning is that local law enforcement — and indeed, even the FBI — had several opportunities to prevent him from being able to purchase a weapon legally and did not do so, by choosing not to press charges, despite a recurring pattern of violent and dangerous behavior and multiple warnings from Cruz's peers. Just what do you have to do to get arrested in that county? The Miami Herald and BuzzFeed lay out multiple times Cruz could have been arrested and charged with a crime, but authorities chose otherwise. First, February 2016: One key misstep in Cruz's case came in February 2016, when a Broward deputy responded to a report that the teenager "planned to shoot up the school." An Instagram photo of a "juvenile" with a gun prompted the tip, according to a time line ... Read More Top Stories Opinion Laundering in Parkland's Wake Kyle Smith Mainstream journalists are using the student activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a mouthpiece for their gun-control... To Be a Pilgrim: A Visit to Lourdes William F. Buckley Jr. To Be a Pilgrim: A Visit to Lourdes ADVERTISEMENT David Hogg Is Fair Game for Critics Charles C. W. Cooke When he inserted himself into the national gun-control debate, Parkland survivor David Hogg became fair game for... No, You Don't Have to Support Gun Control to Be Pro-Life Alexandra DeSanctis Dana Milbank's argument that pro-lifers must support gun control to call themselves pro-life is fatally... We Must Shock-Test the USS Gerald R. Ford Jerry Hendrix We need more super carriers, but we also need to know that they will perform well in combat... FedEx Goes Against Current of Companies Cutting Ties with NRA Mairead McArdle FedEx has cited nondiscrimination in defense of its business with the... ADVERTISEMENT What NR is Reading Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man Timothy Sandefur "From Timothy Sandefur's elegantly written new biography, the reader gains a profound education in the life and thought of Frederick Douglass. . . For a concise introduction to the greatness of Douglass, one could do no better than to read this book.." - Peter C. Myers, author of Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism LEARN MORE Photo Essays "> Snow in Rome Cartoons of the Day: February 26th, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.