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jbrickley says:
February 15, 2018 at 8:23 pm
Here we go. He was adopted as a baby along with his brother and took the name Cruz. His adopted father passed away a decade ago. His adopted mother raised him until she died of flu and complications with pneumonia last November 1st. He was living with a different family who had no clue what he was up to except to say he was sad and depressed.
He’s autistic just like Adam Lanza and on medications possibly SSRI’s. Many with autism have Aspergers syndrome as it’s on the scale. This can mean difficulties with empathy toward others. Cruz exhibited troubling violence against animals with several instances mentioned in the press. Also mentioned that he had his dog attack the neighbors and the mother didn’t deal with it all that well. He was prone to angry outbursts. The student population was weary of him because he was just off and not normal. Before he was expelled he was banned from carrying a backpack on campus. That’s a clear indication the school was concerned about weapons. He threatened students. Everyone knew he had firearms as he was obsessed and talked about it all the time. He was enrolled an Alternate School program before being expelled. That’s for those in danger of dropping out of school. After he was expelled he ended up attending adult education in pursuit of a GED and working at a local Dollar Store. The FBI were alerted to a post on a YouTube video about wanting to be a professional school shooter. The video poster reported him to YouTube and Police and the FBI interviewed him twice but they couldn’t get a warrant from Google who owns YouTube to identify the poster. The name matches but they couldn’t identify the correct person without data from YouTube. More will come out in the investigation. If the school was so concerned why didn’t they file for a restraining order and tell the police he has firearms and made violent threats?
There are plenty of people with Aspergers (on the autism scale) and lots of sociopaths who are no danger to themselves or others. Much like Adam Lanza it seems his mother was ill equipped the deal with him and the ability to get proper mental treatment in this country is abysmal. Even if you have the money it’s just about impossible to help a mentally ill child. I’ve read stories where a mother woke up to find her 12 year old ready to stab her with a cooking knife in the middle of the night. She fought him off and had to lock up all the sharps in the house and had to lock him in his room for the safety of the rest of the family. She was distraught and tried everything to get help and there was nothing.
We don’t have a gun problem in this country we have a mental health crisis of epic proportions and a PC culture run amok where everyone is afraid of offending the mentally ill. Regular MD’s are prescribing SSRI’s without proper therapy and misdiagnosing patients. The SSRI’s don’t solve the problem they only smooth you out and the side effects are terrible so people go off their meds because they are tired of feeling numb and having sexual side effects and dry mouth and being tired all the time. Going on and off the drugs causes major problems. You have to be weened off most of these drugs you can’t just suddenly cease to take them, it’s dangerous. They need therapy and guidance and oversight they need to want to control their condition. They need to be identified and helped properly. Some are so sick they really need to be locked up for the safety of the public. Unfortunately they get abused.
That public defender really pisses me off. She claims he’s a broken child and that he’s remorseful which definitely doesn’t fit the facts at all. He planned this to great detail. Gas mask, smoke grenades, AR-15, hundreds of rounds a ammo preloaded into multiple magazines. He rented an Uber to the school, walked in, hit the fire alarm and executed people in the hallways. A teacher outside spotted him identified him, alerted the staff with a radio and moments later when the fire alarm went off the teacher called in a code red. It was total chaos. Then he ditched his gear and tried to walk out with his hands in the air like a victim hiding among other victims. The police had a description of him and nabbed him. He was brought to the hospital to be treated for labored breathing due to smoke inhalation. He spoke with investigators. Not all the details have been released.
Everyone at that school knew this guy Cruz was a big problem and due to B.S. political correctness nothing was done. It’s absolutely insane! There was an armed officer at the school but the place is so big the officer couldn’t find the shooter in the sprawling campus with 3,000 students.
I first and foremost blame the shooter he’s an adult he knew what he was doing. I next blame the school administrators for not taking more extreme actions. I blame the school system for preventing extreme actions from being pursued due to some misguided liberal thinking. I blame the FBI for not being able to react fast enough with a warrant to Google / YouTube and perhaps Google for making the process difficult and any judge who made the process difficult and time consuming. I blame his mother and the people he was living with. I blame anyone else who didn’t report this nutter if they had more detailed information about his plans.
The perimeter doors should have been locked from the outside he should have needed to be identified and buzzed in. Perhaps he tailgated if someone walked out we don’t know yet.
Lord, hindsight may be 20/20 but we as a society need to do a lot better. There are armed guards everywhere in the Philippines at all the schools, at all public spaces and shopping centers even the hotels had armed uniformed guards outside and inside. Metal detectors at the mall entrances and a male and female guard to search your bags and jackets for weapons.
If they didn’t trust him to come in the school with a back pack why in the fuck would they let him in at all? What are people thinking?
And it still blows my mind. As a society we have generally decided that protecting money with GUNS is ok. Protecting politicians with GUNS is ok. Protecting famous people with GUNS is ok. Protecting valuables with GUNS is ok. Protecting people from criminals with GUNS is ok. But mention protecting schools and children with guns and you are the second coming of hitler. Why is every school not equipped with armed and trained individuals? Whether that be dedicated security or trained teachers and admins that are armed or a combination of both. Many schools have a bunch of administrative staff making six figures a year. How about sending some of that money towards security. I just can’t understand the blatant and stupid lack of security at schools.
I also found out tonight that a guy I know that lives in Florida, not far from this school actually, sends his kid to a private daycare. Not a big school, just daycare. This daycare has two, yes 2, armed guards on duty at all times that the daycare is operating. I get that this is private vs public but if they see security being this important why aren’t others taking it as seriously.