Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Florida shooting shows our government institutions are failing us

Florida shooting shows our government institutions are failing us:
"From the FBI to local law enforcement to the schools, every institution failed.
We have more government than ever, but it isn't working.
See the source imageThe chief problem facing America today is the decline of its institutions, coupled with the denial of that decline by the people in charge of its institutions.
The latest example of this problem is the Parkland school shooting in Florida.
From the FBI, to local law enforcement, to the schools, everyone failed.
There was failure early, there was failure in the middle, and there was failure late.
And no one has taken responsibility.
It’s not as if there weren’t warning signs.
...Despite Broward Sheriff Scott Israel’s all-out attack on the NRA the night before Peterson's inaction became public, this debacle illustrates why so many Americans want to own guns, and aren’t comfortable relying solely on “trained professional law enforcement officers” like Scot Peterson. 
As Jim Geraghty writes in National Review, “the Parkland shooting is proving to be a colossal cascading failure of both local and federal law enforcement.
...People are being asked to trust the government to keep them safe, when the government is patently unable to do so.
And then, when the government fails, it engages in blame-shifting deflection. 
Why should people listen?
Increasingly, they won’t."
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