How the alleged Florida shooter escaped years of warnings
Channel: Tey Yomiko
Date: 2018-02-16

How the alleged Florida shooter escaped years of warnings

Yet despite the fact that he was well known to local police, school and mental health officials, he legally purchased the AR-15 that he used to gun down his former classmates. Cruz slipped through the gaps in a dysfunctional mental health system and a gun background check setup not designed to stop mentally ill people who haven’t been incarcerated or court-ordered into treatment.

"You keep your eyes on those kids who become disconnected — you know, they're out on the fringes,” said Broward County Mayor Beam Furr. “And as a teacher, you try to bring them in to the fold, so to speak, in one way or another."
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Federal law prohibits people who have been involuntarily committed for mental illness from buying guns, but that gives a pass to people like Cruz, who, according to media reports, had never been committed to a psychiatric facility or adjudicated by a court for a mental illness, but still exhibited signs of mental disorders.

Policy experts and lawmakers have tried reforming the background check system to include more people, but Trump’s reversal of an Obama-era regulation did the opposite. The rule required the Social Security Administration to report people on disability insurance who had severe mental illness and required someone else to file for them, to the FBI's background check system to prohibit them from purchasing a gun.

“He made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns,” D.J. Jaffe, executive director of Mental Illness Policy Org., said of Trump.

Even when law enforcement officials are contacted about troubled students, their hands are often tied.
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