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It's impossible to watch the news these days and not see that there is once again a very strong and orchestrated effort being made to push the gun control agenda under the guise of safety for our children. This misrepresented "cause" ignores the more obvious and common sense solutions such as improved school security protocols and increased accountability of the government officials charged with enforcing the many regulations already on the books.

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But my legally owned fi****ms that are securely locked in my safe are the problem? The rights of millions of law-abiding gun owners should be sacrificed because of the ineptitude of the various government agencies that had credible information about a disturbed individual but failed to act? The very same government we are supposed to entrust our safety to in the absence of private firearm ownership? Uh, no.

THIS COMMON SENSE PIECE IS WORTH THE READ. The events in Parkland are tragic and our hearts go out to the affected families. Unfortunately as has been seen during past times of similar tragedy there are certain groups who are forcing a debate regarding the rights of every American citizen at a time that we believe should be reserved as a time of grieving for those lost. Their efforts began the evening of the incident before law enforcement had even cleared the scene. This is indeed a complex issue that many feel passionately about and we hope that common sense and reason will prevail over emotionally-charged irrational actions.

Every Single Government Authority Failed In Parkland. And They Expect Americans To Forfeit Our Self-Defense Rights To Them?

Michael Laughlin/Sun Sentinel/

ByBen Shapiro

February 23, 2018

On Thursday night, the American public learned two bombshell pieces of information regarding the Parkland, Florida mass shooting. First, we learned that the Broward County Sheriff’s Office was told in November that the Parkland shooter “could be a school shooter in the making” but deputies didn’t bother to write up a report; that report “came just weeks after a relative called urging BSO to seize his weapons.” Then, in even more shocking news, we learned that an armed school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sat outside and waited for four minutes during the six minute attack that ended in the deaths of 17 human beings.

So, here’s what we know.

We know the FBI was warned specifically about the Parkland shooter not once, but twice – and did nothing.

We know the Broward County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the home of the Parkland shooter at least 39 times since 2010.

We know that the Broward County Sheriff’s Office was warned multiple times about the Parkland shooter.

We know that an armed officer was present during the shooting and did nothing – and that JROTC students showed far more courage.

And yet we are told that the solution to mass shootings is for law-abiding citizens to give more authority to the authorities that failed, and to turn over our only way of protecting ourselves?

Why in the world would a single law-abiding gun owner hand over his or her weapon to the same authorities that did nothing to protect the children of Parkland? Why would a single law-abiding gun owner turn over his or her capacity for self-defense to people who were incapable of defending children at every step of the way?

And why in the world should we blame the NRA, which literally had nothing to do with Parkland, for the failures of every institutional barrier to a massacre? Why should we blame law-abiding gun owners who didn’t shoot up kids for the failures of those who are paid to do stop evil monsters like the Parkland shooter? Why should we take Sheriff Steve Israel seriously when he blames lack of gun control, Dana Loesch, and the NRA, rather than his own radical incompetence and the radical incompetence of those under his authority?

Children are dead not because millions of good citizens own AR-15s, but because dozens of pathetic incompetents and cowards in a position to do something instead did nothing. All the misdirection in the world isn’t going to change that inconvenient fact.

On National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, and every day, we express our gratitude and appreciation for our men and women in uniform who sacrifice daily to protect our streets.

So it appears that the overwhelming majority of gun owners are law-abiding, ethical people who require no oversight. You don't say?

"Tests performed on the Surface Web demonstrated that private sellers GAO contacted on gun forums and other classified ads were unwilling to sell a firearm to an individual who appeared to be prohibited from possessing a firearm," Seto J. Bagdoyan and Wayne McElrath of the GAO's Forensic Audits and Investigative Service section said in a report on the investigation released in November."

Federal Investigators Couldn't Illegally Buy Guns Through Legitimate Websites Despite 72 Attempts Federal agents posing as criminals were unable to purchase any fi****ms from legitimate online marketplaces despite dozens of attempts.

Close but no cigar on the snow, but it is a beautiful morning.

And that's a wrap – Time to shut it down for the night.

Fireside dinner for one.