Were Red Flags Ignored In Parkland Shooting?

By Tom Knighton

For all the talk about gun control following something like the Parkland shooting, there’s also a lot of thinking about whether there was any way to know something like this would happen. Were there red flags that should have been noticed?

It seems that this time, there may well have been.

From Townhall:

We don’t know his motives, but what we do know is that [the shooter], a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida ventured back onto campus and started shooting killing 17 people. At least a dozen more were wounded. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel described the scene as “catastrophic” and it’s been classified as a mass casualty event. [He] was taken into custody earlier this afternoon.

One student interviewed said, “everyone predicted this,” noting that the student body used to joke that [he] would be someone to attack the school.

“He knows the school layout; he knows where everyone would be at,” said the student.

Now, the Miami Herald is reporting that a teacher flagged [the shooter] as a potential threat, but this has yet to be confirmed:

A teacher at the school told the Miami Herald that [the shooter], 19, had been identified …Read the Rest

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