In the aftermath of the Parkland Florida School Shooting, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has been front and center in attacking the NRA and demanding more gun control.
As facts began to show that local law enforcement ignored many red flags about Nikolas Cruz (including 36 police contacts about him) and Broward County did nothing before the atrocity, Sheriff Israel sought to deflect responsibility. Sheriff Israel had no qualms about throwing the School Resource Officer under the bus for not engaging and killing the shooter. But as hard questions about the performance of his office were raised, Sheriff Israel refused to take responsibility.
Florida legislators circulated a petition for Sheriff Israel to be suspended, which 73 legislators signed. Governor Rick Scott (R-FL) declared that he would not summarily suspend Sheriff Israel before an investigation.
Sheriff Israel's strident face saving, however, may well have inhibited the seemingly bullet proof push for stringent gun control measures imposed in reaction to the Stoneman Douglass High School shooting.
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