Lil' Beauregard takes a time-out from his war on weed to explain what just happened in Florida.

[Miles Archer]

Jeff Sessions Just Tried to Blame Florida School Shooting on Gang Violence
Too bad Parkland, Florida, has been rated one of the country’s safest cities.

Jackie Flynn MogensenFeb. 15, 2018 2:38 PM

In response to Wednesday’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Attorney General Jeff Sessions implied, in a speech to a sheriff’s convention in Washington on Thursday, that cracking down on gang violence could prevent school shootings.

“When parents once again go to sleep fearful that their kids will not be safe, even when they go to school—parents have told me in gang-infested neighborhoods that children can no longer stand at the bus stop by themselves, they take turns, parents do, of being out there every morning and afternoon,” he said. “So we’ve gotta confront the problem. There’s not doubt about it.”

The problem with the statement is that in this case, the shooter had no known gang ties (though some have reported he was linked to a white supremacist group, Republic of Florida). What’s more, Parkland was just named Florida’s safest city in 2017, according to an analysis by the Washington-based National Council for Home Safety and Security. Located just outside the Florida everglades, and about an hour out of Miami, the city is “an affluent one that’s intentionally designed to mimic a park,” according to the council’s website.

Sessions also said that “effective enforcement” of current gun laws, and “focusing on criminals and dangerous people, mentally ill people” could reduce gun violence. “It is not good if we got gun laws that say criminals can’t carry guns and they never get enforced. So we intend to enforce our laws,” he said.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/jeff-sessions-just-tried-to-blame-florida-school-shooting-on-gang-violence/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Where are your "anglo" sheriffs now, asshole!

[gratuitous]

2. Effective enforcement of gun laws, Jefferson?

Didn't your president repeal one of those last year? The law that tried to keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill folks who exhibited murderous tendencies? Why don't you go down to Florida and have a little chat with the parents at Douglas High about their gangs and their drug dealing and their hippity hop music?

[SoCalMusicLover]

3. If The Killer Smoked Pot, Sessions Would Blame The Killings On That For Sure nt

[suffragette]

4. Even if he didn't smoke pot. Anything to not

Examine real linkages like the white supremicist one and to keep from enacting any meaningful legislation.

[Initech]

5. Well if the "gang" in question happens to be a white nationalist militia...

Then he is correct in that regard.

[world wide wally]

6. Sessions is a wannabe ventriloquist... He talks out of his ass