"Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste" | Eastern North Carolina Now

The horrific murder of children was a terrible avoidable tragedy, but what may be worse is the manner that they are being used by political manipulators.

    Watching the political fallout from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Massacre assures me that core Democrats and the Fake News will always obfuscate the reality of the events at hand to fully utilize their core maxim: "Never let a tragedy go to waste".

    The pathetic hypocrisy of the Left's political utilization of all tragedies, real and imagined notwithstanding, these Leftist usurpers will never admit that these poor Parkland, Florida school children never had a chance and would have been slaughtered regardless of any extreme diminishment of 2nd Amendment, which is their resolved goal, before the sad occurrence of this terrible tragedy. Even if Liberals /Socialist had been fully successful in achieving their ultimate objective of law abiding Americans surrendering their guns, the fact remains: 1) the local Dept. of Social Services, in Parkland, Florida, neglected to identify the shooter as dangerous; 2) the local authorities had been warned of this shooter's psychopathic behavior and did nothing; 3) The FBI dropped the ball again, and did not investigate this disturbed boy, after being warned by knowledgeable community members; 4) the school security cameras were far out of sync; 5) a cowardly armed deputy refused to engage the shooter, Nicholas Cruz. Even if committed Leftists cannot understand this simple paradox: a psychopath with any gun in a "gun free zone", with a cowardly deputy (who goes by the infamous name of Scot Peterson) unwilling to protect these American school children, and these Leftist manipulators, whose prime objective is for law abiding citizens give up their right to protect themselves, or others strains the credulity considered by far wiser men and women than they.

    Harden these soft target schools, take away the silly "Gun Free Zone" signs, and arm responsible adults. That will make the big difference that our school children deserve. If Americans are not prepared to fully protect our children's lives and their future; what future does our Republic deserve?

    If core Democrats and their Fake News, who hate the protections of our 2nd Amendment, are left to enact policy over the rest of us, we will suffer the poor fate of a fully destructed republic.

    People, if ever there was a time to pray for salvation; of the good within our human spirits, and the sustainability of our Republic, that time is now. If left unchecked the twin diabolical forces of evil and ignorance with destroy us all.