Five Critical Questions That Need to Be Answered One Month After the Florida Shooting
As millions of kids walk out of school today to beg the government to disarm them, the victims and their families are still left without answers to some of the most glaring questions about the Florida shooting.
By Matt Agorist
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
March 14, 2018
Parkland, FL — It has been one month since the deranged Nikolas Cruz allegedly walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15 and began killing children. As expected, instead of providing answers to the public’s questions, the government’s reaction to the shooting consists of little more than stripping Americans of their rights.
Instead of attempting to find the cause of the shooting, the government and media alike are focusing on the inanimate object used to carry it out. On Wednesday, students across the United States—who’ve been subjected to massive propaganda campaigns to relinquish their right to self-defense—will walk out of class to beg the government to disarm them.
In the meantime, no actual solution to preventing another attack is being considered because the media and the government refuse to address the real issues.
Here at the Free Thought Project, we refuse to sit idly by as the hard questions about the Florida shooting go unanswered. Below is a list of five questions that need to be addressed. Until these questions are answered, all the legislative responses and government reactions to the tragedy in Florida are little more than political theater.
Why is the media refusing to report on Cruz’s alleged use of antidepressants?
In a likely attempt to protect their corporate sponsors in the pharmaceutical industry, the fact that Cruz’s family told reporters that he was on medication for depression has managed to remain all but a blip in the mainstream.
As TFTP reported, the people who knew Cruz described him as a troubled teenager who was adopted when he was young and then was forced to move in with a friend after both of his adopted parents died. Jim Lewis, an attorney for the family that gave Cruz a place to live after his mother died in November, told The Washington Post that they knew Cruz was depressed, but they believed he taking steps to manage his depression.
Family member Barbara Kumbatovich told the Herald, “she believed Nikolas Cruz was on medication to deal with his emotional fragility.” She was a sister-in-law of Lynda Cruz, the suspect’s mother, and she also told the Sun-Sentinel that she believes Nikolas has been on medications for several months.
The reason this information is so important is that the side effects of some of these medications are known to make people violent and suicidal. The makers of these drugs have been sued for hundreds of millions of dollars after people have tied their use to mass killings and suicides.
Some of the side effects of antidepressants include aggression, agitation, changes in behavior, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts — and homicidal ideation.
The use of these medications has been tied to nearly every mass shooting in modern history and the president thinks banning bump stocks takes priority.
Why were first responders told to stand down?
As the cops who failed to go into the school to stop the shooter garnered their well-deserved scorn in the media, news of the stand down order barely registered on the news cycle at all. Lives could’ve been saved but first responders were told not to help.
“Everything I was trained on mass casualty events says they did the wrong thing,” said the first responder, who spoke with WSVN Miami News 7 reporter Brian Entin on the condition of anonymity.
“You don’t wait for the scene to be cleared. You go in immediately armed. Retrieve the victims. You can’t leave the victims laying there,” he explained.
But they could not go in.
“I would hypothesize I could have saved lives. I can’t say for sure,” he said, adding, “I would have risked my life to go in. I was eager to.”
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