Who to Blame if You Won’t Blame Nikolas Cruz

If you want to blame someone other than Nikolas Cruz for the Parkland killings, forget Wayne LaPierre, whose only crime is defending the Constitution; Scot Peterson actually bears responsibility:

A Marjory Stoneman Douglas school resource officer has been suspended without pay after Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said video shows him taking up a defensive position during the shooting but never entering the school.

Deputy Peterson was armed, but decided that addressing the maniac could be dangerous, so he opted for the more prudent course of waiting for him to run out of ammo. Since he qualifies for retirement, he resigned.

Reassuringly, his self-esteem did not suffer; he says he “did a good job,” according to a union official.

Law enforcement officials are guarding Peterson’s house to protect him from the public. Poetic justice would be for the cops to cower in the bushes when a mob comes to tar and feather him.

Will anyone blame Peterson’s gun for not going into the building by itself to stop Cruz? Then why blame Cruz’s gun?

Security problems at the school go beyond hiring Barney Fife as deputy. The security cameras were on a 20-minute delay during the killings, rendering them useless for dealing with a situation as it happens.

The issues here are security and mental illness. Guns are not the issue, any more than airplanes were the issue on 9/11. The liberal media establishment’s attempts to hijack public grief and fly it into our Constitution, exploiting children in the process, is contemptible to the last extreme and has eradicated the last of its credibility.

On tips from Varla, Lyle, and KirklesWorth.