Florida Shooting: Nikolas Cruz Is Charged With 17 Counts of Murder

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times

The authorities on Thursday charged the 19-year-old man who is suspected of gunning down students and adults at his former high school with 17 counts of premeditated murder.

The suspect, Nikolas Cruz, 19, was booked into jail in Broward County. He had been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a small, bucolic city about an hour north of Miami, which on Wednesday became the site of one of the deadliest shootings in United States history, adding to the growing toll of mass killings on school grounds.

A heavily armed young man walked into a Florida high school he once attended and began shooting on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and escaping amid the fleeing students before being arrested a few miles from the campus. “This is catastrophic,” said Sheriff Scott Israel of Broward County, who has three children who graduated from the school. “There really are no words.”

• The authorities said the AR-15 rifle that Mr. Cruz used in the attack was purchased legally. “No laws were violated in the procurement of this weapon,” said Peter J. Forcelli, the special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Miami.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/us/florida-shooting.html

[IronLionZion]

1. No laws were violated in the procurement of this weapon,

and no laws will be passed to make this harder to get

[BumRushDaShow]

2. +1

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. nailed it

Lots of high-priced thoughts and prayers bought by NRA, but no laws.

[Bengus81]

4. Yep...and how Feinstein's bill was condemned by the NRA and GOP nut jobs from Texas.......

But sure...lots of "prayers" for victims. Yeah,that helps........................

Efforts to pass a new federal assault weapons ban were made in December 2012 after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. On January 24, 2013, Senator Feinstein introduced S. 150, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 (AWB 2013). The bill was similar to the 1994 ban, but differed in that it would not expire after 10 years,and it used a one-feature test for a firearm to qualify as an assault weapon rather than the two-feature test of the defunct ban. The GOP Congressional delegation from Texas, and the NRA, condemned Feinstein's bill. On March 14, 2013, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a version of the bill along party lines. On April 17, 2013, AWB 2013 failed on a Senate vote of 40 to 60.

It was supported by Democrat Reid and Republican Senator Mark Kirk, but 15 Democrats, one independent, and all the Republicans except Kirk voted against the ban.

So just WHO are the 15 Dems who voted NO for this ban,wonder how many are still here to face some HEAT?

[pwb]

5. Purchased legally by who?? The kid or his parents?