19-year-old Niklolas de Jesus Cruz — who killed 17 former schoolmates at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Feb. 14 — had committed numerous serious crimes over the previous five years, including assault, but had no criminal record (which would have prevented him from buying firearms.)

Why?

Because the Broward County School Board and the Broward County Sheriff's Office conspired to see to it that young felons in their high schools pretty much never got arrested for their crimes, and thus never went to trial — even though this involved "police officers falsifying documents, hiding criminal activity, (and) lying on official police reports" . . . in order to make their awful statistics for number of students (and particularly "minority students") arrested for serious crimes . . . LOOK BETTER.

See: . . . https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/21/its-too-late-broward-county-school-board-beginning-to-admit-their-mistakes/#more-146133

No one is saying 15- and 16- and 17-year-olds should go to prison for long terms for committing vandalism, burglary, drug dealing, or even assault. Judges are free to send kids into "diversionary programs" to keep them out of the Big House, at least once or twice (though probably not 20 times.)

But that's supposed to be done through the court system, to allow some legislative and citizen oversight, and to leave a paper trail so police — and licensed firearms dealers — can know who and what they're dealing with.

So again we see the Totalitarian Left turning their young inmates into Useful Stooges, granting them time off and even paying for buses so they can go march and shriek that we need "more gun control" . . . when the school board and the sheriff conspired to make sure our current safeguards weren't allowed to work?

Responding to being named the most criminal-infested school system in Florida in 2010-2011, "Broward County schools intentionally created policies from 2011 through 2015 that culminated in the 2018 mass school shooting in Parkland," writes Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse. (Again: . . . https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/21/its-too-late-broward-county-school-board-beginning-to-admit-their-mistakes/#more-146133 .) "We know this with great specificity because five years ago we warned Broward County Florida school board members this could happen."