Four Minutes of a Massacre that Demonstrate Why We Cannot Rely on the Police Alone

Jim Geraghty

We know about the FBI getting a direct, detailed tip about Nikolas Cruz and never forwarding it to their Florida personnel.

We learned, in recent days, about the police responding 39 times to emergency calls at Cruz’s home over a seven-year period.

It is easy to miss anecdotes about the shooter that are jaw-dropping:

Long before he slaughtered 17 people at the South Florida high school he once attended, Nikolas Cruz had a disturbing way of introducing himself.

“Hi, I’m Nick,” he used to say, according to an acquaintance interviewed by CNN. “I’m a school shooter.”

I’m rather stunned that someone can call 911 and say that you’ve put a gun to people’s heads in the past, and they’ll walk away after a mere conversation because you had “hugged and reconciled” with the person you threatened.

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