Parkland Shooting Survivor Feels She “Has No Choice” but to Call for More Gun Grabbing

I suppose pushing for Government to follow existing law would be too much before we institute all sorts of draconian restrictions on law abiding citizens

(The Hill) Stoneman Douglas survivor Emma Gonzalez said on Sunday that she has no choice but to advocate for stricter gun control laws.

“I have no choice because there were CNN cameras there, and my speech was broadcast all over the country in like four seconds and I had no ideas they were going to be there, and that’s..like I’m not upset about that..I’m never going to be the same person again,” Gonzalez told “60 Minutes” on CBS. (snip)

She has become one of the more well-known shooting survivors, working to push Congress to enact new gun control laws.

Gonzalez has called on the National Rifle Association (NRA) to disband in the wake of the shooting.

“Disband, dismantle … don’t make another organization under a different name. Don’t you dare come back here,” she said, referring to the NRA.

While we all certainly empathize with her, her pain is no reason to curtail the Constitutional Rights of law abiding citizens, especially as this is being pushed by hardcore leftist groups, which are astroturfing this whole thing. They even have another march coming on March 24th. I wonder if any of them will discuss the failures of government?

(AP) Officials were so concerned about the mental stability of the student accused of last month’s Florida school massacre that they decided he should be forcibly committed.

But the recommendation was never acted upon. (snip)

But more than a year earlier, documents in the criminal case against Nikolas Cruz and obtained by The Associated Press show school officials and a sheriff’s deputy recommended in September 2016 that Cruz be involuntarily committed for a mental evaluation.

The documents, which are part of Cruz’s criminal case in the shooting, show that he had written the word “kill” in a notebook, told a classmate that he wanted to buy a gun and use it, and had cut his arm supposedly in anger because he had broken up with a girlfriend. He also told another student he had drunk gasoline and was throwing up. Calls had even been made to the FBI about the possibility of Cruz using a gun at school.

The documents were provided by a psychological assessment service initiated by Cruz’s mother called Henderson Behavioral Health. The documents show a high school resource officer who was also a sheriff’s deputy and two school counselors recommended in September 2016 that Cruz be committed for mental evaluation under Florida’s Baker Act. That law allows for involuntary commitment for mental health examination for at least three days.

Such an involuntary commitment would also have been a high obstacle if not a complete barrier to legally obtaining a firearm, such as the AR-15 rifle used in the Stoneman Douglas massacre on Feb. 14, authorities say.

There was a complete failure of Government. It’s not the fault of the gun. None of these gun grabbers like Emma are calling for Government to do the job and implement the Law, hence, it is easy to tell that this is all about gun grabbing.