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		 PARKLAND, Fla. — Broward County deputies received at least 18 calls warning them about Nikolas Cruz from 2008 to 2017, including concerns that he "planned to shoot up the school" and other threats and acts of violence before he was accused of killing 17 people at a high school. 
 
The warnings, made by concerned people close to Cruz, came in phone calls to the Broward County Sheriff's Office, records show. At least five callers mentioned concern over his access to weapons, according to the documents. None of those warnings led to direct intervention. 
 
In February 2016, neighbors told police that they were worried he “planned to shoot up the school” after seeing alarming pictures on Instagram showing Cruz brandishing guns. 
 
About two months later, an unidentified caller told police that Cruz had been collecting guns and knives. The caller was “concerned (Cruz) will kill himself one day and believes he could be a school shooter in the making,” according to call details released by the Sheriff's Office. 
		
		
		
		
		
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		 [QUOTE=scottw;1138130]PARKLAND, Fla. — Broward County deputies received at least 18 calls warning them about Nikolas Cruz from 2008 to 2017, including concerns that he "planned to shoot up the school" and other threats and acts of violence before he was accused of killing 17 people at a high school. 
 
The warnings, made by concerned people close to Cruz, came in phone calls to the Broward County Sheriff's Office, records show. At least five callers mentioned concern over his access to weapons, according to the documents. None of those warnings led to direct intervention. 
 
In February 2016, neighbors told police that they were worried he “planned to shoot up the school” after seeing alarming pictures on Instagram showing Cruz brandishing guns. 
 
About two months later, an unidentified caller told police that Cruz had been collecting guns and knives. The caller was “concerned (Cruz) will kill himself one day and believes he could be a school shooter in the making,” according to call details released by the Sheriff's  
 
The NRA and 2nd supporters would have pitched a fit if they took his guns over instargram, or Internet posts  yelling confiscation or FREEDOM of speech. .. they are now blaming everyone else . To insulate them from the laws they supported which gave assistance and legal standing  for Cruz to have what he had .... law enforcement was toothless until he committed a crime ... 
		
		
		
		
		
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		 In Ms. Deschamps’s 911 call, she told the dispatcher that Mr. Cruz already had about eight guns that he kept at a friend’s house and that he had just been thrown out of the house after the tantrum in which he punched the walls, hurled things around her home and got into a fight with Rock, her 22-year-old son. 
 
“He got pissed off and then he came in the house and started banging all the doors and banging in the walls and hitting the walls and throwing everything in the room,” she said. “And then my son got in there and he said, ‘Stop it,’ and he didn’t want to stop.” 
 
She added: “It’s not the first time he put a gun on somebody’s head.” Ms. Deschamps made it clear that her new houseguest was obsessed with firearms and had threatened both his mother and his brother. “That’s all he wants is his gun,” she said. “And that’s all he cares about is his gun. He bought tons of bullets and stuff and I took it away from him.” 
		
		
		
		
		
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				Wayne is a lot like Trump actually. He talks without giving much thought to what he is spewing and it is usually just to get a rise from the group he feels threatened by. 
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So you think the NRA and its supporters would agree with law enforcement and the Government  when they took his guns based on internet posts and others strangers concerns  and he had yet committed a crime? 
 
if so you clearly dont understand the NRA or it members  they are unable to see  pass Confiscation 
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A Decade Later, Remember New Orleans … Gun Confiscation Can (and Has) Happened in America'  
		
		
		
		
		
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				So you think the NRA and its supporters would agree with law enforcement and the Government  when they took his guns based on internet posts and others strangers concerns  and he had yet committed a crime? 
  
			
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President Trump ended an Obama-era gun law that required background checks to block the sale of guns to people with mental illnesses.
 
It was strongly opposed by the National Rifle  
 Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a leading supporter of the rule's repeal, has stated that "if a specific individual is likely to be violent due to the nature of their mental illness, then the government should have to prove it."
 
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				So you think the NRA and its supporters would agree with law enforcement and the Government  when they took his guns based on internet posts and others strangers concerns  and he had yet committed a crime?  
if so you clearly dont understand the NRA or it members  they are unable to see  pass Confiscation 
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				So you think the NRA and its supporters would agree with law enforcement and the Government  when they took his guns based on internet posts and others strangers concerns  and he had yet committed a crime?  
if so you clearly dont understand the NRA or it members  they are unable to see  pass Confiscation 
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The NRA and 2nd supporters would have pitched a fit if they took his guns over instargram, or Internet posts yelling confiscation or FREEDOM of speech. .....
 
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Gina Raimondo’s overreaching order allows law enforcement officers to take guns away from those in “red flag” cases.
 
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The NRA and 2nd supporters would have pitched a fit if they took his guns over instargram, or Internet posts yelling confiscation or FREEDOM of speech. .....
 https://conservativeunite.org/r-gove...der-seize-guns
Gina Raimondo’s overreaching order allows law enforcement officers to take guns away from those in “red flag” cases.
 
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"Many would agree that a person with a mental illness should not have a gun, but Raimondo’s executive order allows for the Rhode Island government to determine which individuals can have a gun."
 
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		 in a related story.... 
 
Snow is apparently a dangerous substance. 
 
The headmaster of a school in Britain has forbidden his students even to touch snow. 
 
“It only takes one student, one piece of grit, one stone in a snowball in an eye, with an injury and we change our view,” said Ges Smith, the headmaster at Jo Richardson Community School, according to an article in the Telegraph. 
 
“The rules are don’t touch the snow,” he continued. “If you don’t touch the snow you’re not going to throw it.” 
 
In addition to potential injuries from snowballs, Smith is apparently also concerned that the snow might get students wet — which might interfere with their studies. 
 
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Snow is apparently a dangerous substance. 
 
The headmaster of a school in Britain has forbidden his students even to touch snow. 
 
“It only takes one student, one piece of grit, one stone in a snowball in an eye, with an injury and we change our view,” said Ges Smith, the headmaster at Jo Richardson Community School, according to an article in the Telegraph. 
 
“The rules are don’t touch the snow,” he continued. “If you don’t touch the snow you’re not going to throw it.” 
 
In addition to potential injuries from snowballs, Smith is apparently also concerned that the snow might get students wet — which might interfere with their studies. 
 
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"Many would agree that a person with a mental illness should not have a gun, but Raimondo’s executive order allows for the Rhode Island government to determine which individuals can have a gun." 
 
 
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 because he killed 17 people thats the only  reason ..
 
from the rest of the article you may have missed,  and it came to my attention by a gun friend who post all the Gun propaganda he can find    The only red flag 2a people see is the confiscation red flag its all they ever see 
 
If there are no grounds to legally arrest someone, why are police allowed to confiscate someone’s guns? 
 
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				PARKLAND, Fla.  
 
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 You literally have no idea what you are talking about.  The NRA is appalled that this kid was able to buy this gun, given his history.  This is a law enforcement failure at every level, not an NRA failure.  I don't particularly like the NRA, but they have no fingerprints on this.  Zip.
 
Law enforcement could not have failed more spectacularly.   This kid did everything but walk around with a sign saying "I am a mass murderer, please stop me'.  
 
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You literally have no idea what you are talking about.  The NRA is appalled that this kid was able to buy this gun, given his history.  This is a law enforcement failure at every level, not an NRA failure.  I don't particularly like the NRA, but they have no fingerprints on this.  Zip. 
 
Law enforcement could not have failed more spectacularly.   This kid did everything but walk around with a sign saying "I am a mass murderer, please stop me'.   
 
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 Jim, you could not be more wrong in regards to the NRA. Maybe you need to familiarize yourself with the organization which is remarkably powerful and goes to great expense to allow access to guns for those who wish to own them. I am not saying they are not appalled,just that their efforts through the years are why guns are so accessible.
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				Jim, you could not be more wrong in regards to the NRA. Maybe you need to familiarize yourself with the organization which is remarkably powerful and goes to great expense to allow access to guns for those who wish to own them. I am not saying they are not appalled,just that their efforts through the years are why guns are so accessible. 
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 I am sure that you have a point, which is why I'm not a huge fan.  But I don't think the NRA opposes the tiny speck of common sense that would say that this kid shouldn't have been allowed to have a toy gun.  
 
I think we need more restrictions than the NRA would support, which is why I'm not a huge fan.  However I don't think the NRA would oppose policy that would say that people like this should not be allowed to own a gun.  I could be wrong, but I don't think they're that crazy.  
		
		
		
		
		
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				Jim, you could not be more wrong in regards to the NRA. Maybe you need to familiarize yourself with the organization which is remarkably powerful and goes to great expense to allow access to guns for those who wish to own them. I am not saying they are not appalled,just that their efforts through the years are why guns are so accessible. 
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 you may have been more right than I thought, this was on Foxnews..."However, the Washington Post reported that the NRA fought the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers, suing the federal government once the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) was up and running. The NRA had argued that the entire law, including the NICS provision, be struck down as unconstitutional, the report said. "
 
Maybe they're so fanatical that they want everyone to have a gun?  
 
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"However, the Washington Post reported that the NRA fought the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers, suing the federal government once the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) was up and running. The NRA had argued that the entire law, including the NICS provision, be struck down as unconstitutional, the report said. "
  
			
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The NRA argued that  the Brady Act was unconstitutional because its provisions requiring local law enforcement officers to conduct background checks was a violation of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.
 
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you may have been more right than I thought, this was on Foxnews..."However, the Washington Post reported that the NRA fought the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers, suing the federal government once the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) was up and running. The NRA had argued that the entire law, including the NICS provision, be struck down as unconstitutional, the report said. " 
 
Maybe they're so fanatical that they want everyone to have a gun?   
 
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 Here is the NRA's objection to the Brady Bill at that time.  It does not object to government having a say in gun ownership.  You might not agree with the NRA's reasoning at that time, but here's the transcript of the NRA's objection to the Brady Bill:
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