{"id":356429,"date":"2018-04-12T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/want-to-stop-mass-killings\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:06:00","slug":"want-to-stop-mass-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/want-to-stop-mass-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Want To Stop Mass Killings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>While Parkland has kicked the gun control debate up into high gear, it wasn\u2019t the gun\u2019s fault. We all know this.<\/p>\n<p>We also know that there were countless failures along the way that permitted a 19-year-old with a history of being troubled to purchase a firearm and shoot up his former school.<\/p>\n<p>As Glenn Reynolds (better known to some as Instapundit) notes, if we want to be serious about stopping mass shootings,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/04\/09\/mass-killings-failures-hold-law-enforcement-accountable-column\/497285002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law enforcement failures need to start being punished<\/a>\u00a0[shooters\u2019 names redacted].<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Law enforcement keeps failing, and people keep dying. \u00a0Where are the consequences? Where is the accountability?<span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Law-Self-Defense-3rd-ebook\/dp\/B01F9FAJBA?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=B01F9FAJBA\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41nqgkUC8ZL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Law-Self-Defense-3rd-ebook\/dp\/B01F9FAJBA?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=B01F9FAJBA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Law of Self Defens&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Andrew Branca<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-check-amazon\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\" style=\"color: #990000;padding-bottom: 4px;display: block;\">Check Amazon for Pricing.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=B01F9FAJBA&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Despite receiving a warning directly from the Russian government, the FBI\u00a0failed\u00a0to stop the [redacted] brothers from staging the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-explosions-boston-congress\/russia-warned-u-s-about-boston-marathon-bomb-suspect-tsarnaev-report-idUSBREA2P02Q20140326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Marathon bombing<\/a>. Despite having plenty of resources, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2017\/12\/01\/flawed-law-enforcement-plan-failed-prevent-injury-death-violent-charlottesville-protests\/912671001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlottesville police<\/a>\u00a0failed\u00a0to stop a car attack that left a woman dead. The FBI interviewed [redacted], the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/omar-mateen-father-fbi-informant-pulse-shooting-article-1.3896508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orlando Pulse nightclub<\/a>\u00a0shooter, and considered criminally investigating him. They didn\u2019t \u2014 possibly because his father was an\u00a0FBI informant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The FBI also missed numerous \u201cred flags\u201d\u00a0before the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/ct-san-bernardino-shootings-20151210-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Bernardino shooting<\/a>. And despite having\u00a0lots of warning,\u00a0the FBI, the Broward County schools and\u00a0the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Department under Sheriff Scott Israel\u00a0all failed to stop [redacted] from shooting up a high school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">And yet these repeated failures \u2014\u00a0among others \u2014\u00a0keep getting swept under the rug as we look for \u201csolutions\u201d to the problem of violence. No doubt\u00a0Israel and the others whose incompetence made it possible for [redacted] to kill his classmates were relieved to see our national discourse veer into questions of whether\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2018\/04\/01\/parkland-survivor-hogg-fox-host-ingraham-bully-bully\/476532002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/04\/no_author\/want-to-stop-mass-killings\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Parkland has kicked the gun control debate up into high gear, it wasn\u2019t the gun\u2019s fault. We all know this. We also know that there were countless failures along the way that permitted a 19-year-old with a history of being troubled to purchase a firearm and shoot up his former school. As Glenn Reynolds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}