Father of alleged school shooter abandoned 2 dogs, wedding pix, during eviction--'kicked in door' to retrieve his guns

The so called father of the accused Georgia high school shooter, the wonderful dad who gave his child the weapon he used to kill four students and teachers and wound nine more, is now off the candidate list for Father of the Year. This is a guy who abandoned two of his family's dogs and left the wedding photos behind when they were evicted from their home but later returned and "kicked in the door" to retrieve his guns, according to his ex-landlord. 

Colin Gray has since been arrested for providing his son with the weapon.

Both Colin and his wife Marcee Gray were described as chaotic tenants who eventually fell way behind in the rent and were evicted from their home in 2020. They had to vacate along with their three children, including the now 14-year-old mass school shooter of Apalachee High School.

The once loving couple are now estranged.

The landlord, who remains anonymous, told the media that the family was slow to leave the rental property and left behind their two German Shepherds and several priceless memories.

“I imagine the next place where they were renting didn’t allow dogs, so they just left them,” he explained, saying that the couple had ignored his attempts at reuniting them with their dogs, an archery set, tools, wedding photos, and a golf bag.

“They left their wedding photos,” he said. “My wife tried to contact (Marcee) to say, ‘Hey, do you want these? Like, you can have them.’ And she never responded. So we ended up having to throw away their wedding pictures.”

The young shooter's mother, Marcee, 43, has a lengthy rap sheet with drug and domestic violence arrests, but to her credit, she never killed anyone.

Colin had only returned to the house after the locks were changed to retrieve the firearms he left behind.

The 54-year-old father reportedly “kicked in the door to get his guns out.” But cops advised the landlord to let it slide because there was only minimal damage and besides, the guy is probably bat excrement crazy.

Colt Gray made his first appearance in court on Sept. 6 after he was arrested and charged with killing four people in a school shooting on Sept. 4, 2024. He is charged with four counts of manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.

The property owner says he had forgotten about the family until earlier this week when the couple’s names came across his news feed, “And then it all comes back,” the shocked landlord said.

Students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and math teachers Richard “Ricky” Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, were killed in the massacre. 

In court Friday, Gray, who will be tried as an adult, was warned he will face life in prison. [Why isn't it called 'death in prison' instead of life?]

[H/T NY Post.]

The charges come after it was revealed that Colin, not the brightest light in the drawer, bought an AR-15 style rifle that his son used in the shootings and gave it to him last Christmas.

“These charges stem from Mr. Gray knowingly allowing his son, Colt, to possess a weapon,” GBI Director Chris Hosey told reporters at a press conference, without providing any additional details.

The FBI had the shooter on their radar, and like what happened to former President Donald Trump, the agency was as useful as bubble gum for a blowfish. They had received tips online about school shooting threats and went into action by acting like they knew nothing, hoping to trick the shooter into thinking they were like the Secret Service. Turns out they were.

Lauren Vickers, who lived next door to the Grays in Jefferson, Georgia, said there were “problems immediately” when the Grays and their children moved into the well-manicured neighborhood 60 miles east of Atlanta in 2022.

“There were nights where the mom would lock him and his sister out the house. And they would be banging on the back door, just screaming like ‘Mom! mom! mom!’ and crying. It was absolutely devastating,” she said.

Now it's time for the pundits on the far-left to blame the gun for the shooting. These are often the same geniuses who blame Israel for the October 7 attack.

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Transgender suspect arrested for allegedly planning multiple school shootings in Colorado Springs

I am not going to publish his name nor his photo because mass shooters do it for notoriety, even when they believe they'll be killed. But a 19-year-old suspect has been arrested for allegedly planning to shoot up multiple schools in Colorado Springs. He doesn't know the students, doesn't know the staff, but if he had gone through with it, he would have all the fame his small, insignificant life craved.

That's why most of them do it, I believe. And I blame all media that posts their photos, their names, their manifestos, anything that identifies who they are and how they think.

The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office on Thursday said the defendant, who identified by a female name but is a male, according to what's between his legs, was in the process of having his genitals mutilated to support his delusion of being a female.

The suspect is charged with two counts of first-degree criminal attempt to commit murder, criminal mischief, menacing, and interference with staff, faculty, or students of educational institutions.

The way it began was deputies with the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance call in the 13900 block of Double Tree Ranch Circle in the Town of Elbert last Friday, according to an arrest affidavit.

The male's family member reportedly told 911 dispatchers that her "sister" had threatened to shoot up a school and had anger issues. The deputies were sent to the house, which was littered with trash and had containers with half-eaten food, making it difficult to walk inside. They were directed to a room where the suspect was sleeping, the affidavit says.

The trash in the room was as high as the bed and there were holes in the wall, likely put there but the male suspect who was too lazy to pick up after himself. The holes in the wall were a testament to his high testosterone levels.

When questioned by the deputies, the suspect admitted to planning the school shooting with his former middle school, much like the Nashville shooter who was also trans, but was a female in real life. The suspect admitted that Timberview, his former school, was his "main target," according to the affidavit.

Arrest papers say deputies found a drawn layout of the school and a manifesto filled with "schizophrenic rants" and mentions of serial killers, politicians, and entertainers, including the Columbine shooters and former President Donald Trump.

Just having a manifesto is a cry for notoriety, but to mention those he did, should show us all how dangerous the media can be by naming these sick individuals and showing their mugs on the front covers of newspapers and online postings.

The suspect's preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 5. Bond was set at $75,000.

Academy District 20 told Fox News Digital that staff and parents were notified of the threats.

"We are filled with gratitude for those who ‘saw something/heard something’ and spoke up," a district spokesperson said in a statement.

The district said the court had ordered a protection order for Timberview Middle School, Pioneer Elementary School, and Pine Creek High School.

The suspect's arrest came just days after a mentally disturbed woman who used "he/him" pronouns entered a private Christian school in Nashville and killed six people – including three 9-year-old children.

It just goes to show how the media inadvertently encourages these horrible tragedies. 

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AZ Gov's press secretary "resigns" after being outed by a pro-violence tweet against "transphobes"

After being ratioed on Twitter, the press secretary for Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) no longer has a job. The Urban Dictionary defines ratioed as when "a reply to a tweet gets more likes than the tweet it was replying to, usually indicating the unpopularity or stupidity of the original tweet."

Hobbs' press secretary Josselyn Berry tweeted just hours after the 28-year-old woman with gender dysphoria opened fire at the Covenant School in Nashville. The post by Berry suggested that people who are "transphobic" [a word invented by the left to stop all discussion about transgender people grooming children, for example] should be shot. 

Well, on Wednesday Berry resigned.

Berry's tweet included a GIF of the late Gena Rowlands in a scene from the movie "Gloria," where she is pointing two revolver handguns.

Arizona GOPers correctly accused Berry of inciting violence and called on Hobbs to fire her.

"Calling for violence is NEVER acceptable," the Arizona Freedom Caucus tweeted. "@GovernorHobbs Press Sec. tweeting about shooting political opponents on the same day a trans activist shoots up a school is nothing short of vile & heartless. There is no room for this in AZ Fire @joss_berry Now"

Arizona state Rep. Austin Smith tweeted, "Fire @joss_berry. Calling for violence from the 9th floor is beneath the office she is supposed to serve."

"Please contact @katiehobbs' office and respectfully demand that she fire her press secretary, Josselyn Berry, who posted an inciteful [sic] meme calling for the murder of transphobes," tweeted Arizona Women of Action. "Pray for a peaceful resolution."

The offending post from Berry, a Democratic operative and spokesperson for Hobbs, was later removed from Twitter for violating the site’s rules against inciting violence.

"The Governor does not condone violence in any form. This administration holds mutual respect at the forefront of how we engage with one another. The post by the Press Secretary is not reflective of the values of the administration. The Governor has received and accepted the resignation of the Press Secretary," the governor's office told ABC15 in a statement.

Somehow it has become acceptable to some on the Left to incite violence on those with different opinions, especially the religious right.

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TX DPS clarifies procedures for active shooter: 5 cops face investigation

The Texas Department of Public Safety has released their guidance as to how they want law enforcement to handle active shooter threats, and it certainly isn't the way they did it on May 24th in Uvalde, Texas

In the Uvalde massacre at the Robb Elementary School, DPS officers made up some of the reported 376 law enforcement agents from a number of agencies that responded to the school shooting. It was revealed Tuesday that five of those DPS officers will face an investigation to determine if they violated any policies in the response and weigh potential disciplinary action.

The newly clarified DPS instructions were included in a letter from July. It requires officers to treat anyone who fires a weapon at a school as “an active shooter until he is neutralized.” It also says that officers are to never treat an active shooter as a "barricaded subject." This is what happened during the school shooting in which the shooter was in an unlocked classroom [with terrified kids] and the cops treated it as if he was barricaded alone on there as he shot children one-by-one. 

The contents of the clarified instructions was provided by KVUE investigative reporter Tony Plohetski.

The July letter states that officers have been instructed that anyone who fires a weapon at a school "remains an active shooter until he is neutralized." That person can never be treated as a "barricaded subject." 

Uvalde students returned to school on Tuesday, somewhat later than usual as the district is beefing up security measures at all campuses, or as many see it: "closing the barn door after the horses escaped." Why does it take a tragedy before anything gets done? Why couldn't Biden allocated the money he gave to Ukraine and used it as a national security measure for American students and by doing so he would be making America great again.

Anyway, the district installed 8-foot non-scalable fencing and added security cameras. And while they will not arm teachers, they will at least get a nice video of anyone who would commit acts of violence on our children and teachers.

Aside from the obvious cowardice of the leadership of law enforcement at the Uvalde shooting, DPS and the federal government have launched investigations as to what else went wrong and how law enforcement can respond as if they had balls in the future.

“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” said DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley. “The review will be conducted with the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing.”

Law enforcement officials have faced continued criticism for their cowardly failures in their response to the active shooter threat. Officers responding to the shooting at Robb Elementary School waited outside the classroom for over an hour as the 18-year-old lone gunman murdered children and teachers inside. One cop even grabbed a cup of water from the fountain in the hallway as the shooter kept killing kids in the classroom just down the hall.

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Former Uvalde CISD Chief Pete Arredondo, who was one of the first officials on scene after the shooter entered the school, was fired by the Uvalde school board late last month and the community broke out into spontaneous applause. He needs to retire and perhaps raise a few cats--they have so much in common.

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Uvalde City Council to investigate every city cop who responded to the school massacre

Uvalde, Texas -- The Uvalde City Council said Tuesday that every city cop who responded to the Robb Elementary School massacre on May 24 will be fully investigated. Some people believe the council is looking to discover even one set of balls among the police there as none were obvious while the shooter was in a classroom killing 19 children and two teachers.

“This investigation is looking at every single officer and what his actions, what he did, what our policy says, and basically, we’re gonna get a report on everybody,” council member Ernest “Chip” King III said during a council meeting, according to CNN. “We will act on it, and we promise that to you,” King added.

According to the Washington Examiner, Austin, Texas police detective Jesse Prado will be the lead investigator appointed by the council. He will be the lead on interviewing 25 officers from Uvalde's 39-member police department. [I used 'department' as the word 'force' is not appropriate to use in this case.]

“He’s gonna be conducting the investigation and we’re gonna let the investigation go, see what he determines, but everybody that’s Uvalde PD that was there will be held accountable for their actions,” King said, according to CNN, aka the Compromised News Network.

The investigation is being performed after the public across the nation were rightfully outraged over Uvalde's law enforcement personnel failing to confront the shooter as he was killing people. Perhaps the most enraging piece of video was that of an officer nonchalantly sanitizing his hands while the shooting was taking place and his fellow officers stayed safely away down the hallway.

The officers waited 77 minutes prior to removing their thumbs from their butts and finally taking action and fatally shooting the gunman. The video below might be disturbing to viewers:

“We owe it to the families. We want to get it right,” Uvalde council member Everardo Zamora told CNN.

The Uvalde City Council has taken some action against some of its local authorities.

For example, Uvalde’s acting police chief [and he really was acting] at the time of the massacre, Lt. Mariano Pargas, has been suspended and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District chief of police, Pete Arredondo, is on administrative leave. The Council also suspended the school's Principal Mandy Gutierrez after an investigation found that she failed to fix a broken lock on a door to the classroom the gunman had entered.

How do these people forgive themselves?

Beyond these suspensions, and paid vacations, many family members of the victims  of the shooting who were at the meeting wanted more action to be taken, such as suspending all the city's cops who responded to the shooting and holding them accountable for their cowardice leading to their failure to do their sworn duty.

At last night’s Uvalde council meeting, Eloise Castro stood at the lectern. An elderly retired floral shop owner, she reads statements from carefully prepared notes. But if you think she’s a meek, soft-spoken old lady, you’d only be half right. She’s incisive, w/a sharp tongue. pic.twitter.com/pH0PIYn2Wm

— Sig Christenson 🏕 (@saddamscribe) July 27, 2022

Ms. Castro correctly voiced her concern that the people the Council is using to investigate the Uvalde cops are themselves Texas cops and she seems to believe they might not be as critical as outsiders would be of the lack of response the Uvalde cops showed.

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It's going to be interesting to see how the investigation pans out. The Uvalde police are a stain on the reputations of good police in this country and do not represent the vast majority. However, that isn't how the public may evaluate policing. One can only hope the investigation is meaningful.

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Video proof that Uvalde cops never tried to open classroom door where shooter was

Law enforcement never attempted to open the door nor break it down at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where the gunman inside murdered 19 children and two teachers. The proof is in a video.

[H/T The Daily Wire]

“Surveillance footage shows that police never tried to open a door to two classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the 77 minutes between the time a gunman entered the rooms and massacred 21 people and officers finally breached the door and killed him,” the San Antonio Express-News reported. According to the newspaper, the information they received came from a law enforcement official who was involved with investigating how the cops responded.

But here's the biggest scandal:  “Investigators believe the 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at the school on May 24 could not have locked the door to the connected classrooms from the inside,” the anonymous official said.

The doors are reportedly designed so they can only be locked or unlocked from the outside, and police might have assumed that the door was locked, but they apparently weren't too keen to find out, what with all the danger on the other side. 

The report said that it is not known if the door to the classroom where the 18-year-old Hispanic male was holed up was even locked.

The source said that it didn’t even matter whether the door was locked because “officers had access the entire time to a ‘halligan’ — a crowbar-like tool that could have opened the door to the classrooms even if it was locked.” But instead of using a halligan, they took a mulligan and decided to wait until it was safe to engage the shooter.

The news comes as a report from  The New York Times, an excellent bird cage liner, revealed that a law enforcement official with the city, not the school district, who was armed with an AR-15 style rifle. He had the opportunity to shoot the attacker before he entered the school but didn’t fire because he saw that there were children in the background in the line of fire, 

Thankfully nobody took Joe Biden's advice of firing a warning shot it the air to scare the attacker and possibly kill someone a mile away when the round came back down due to a gravity situation.

“The chief deputy sheriff said that any attempt to shoot the moving gunman would have been difficult, and that the officer would undoubtedly have faced harsh criticism and possibly even a criminal investigation had he missed and hit a bystander in the distance, especially a child,” the report noted.

Uvalde's useless CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo arrived on scene without having a radio [or a set of balls] at 11:35 a.m. as at least two responding officers were already moving into the hallway outside the classroom door where the attacker was shooting kids. Arredondo used a cell phone to call the police department to ask for a radio, a rifle, and heavily-armed backup.

“The decision to establish a perimeter outside the classroom, a little over five minutes after the shooting began, shifted the police response from one in which every officer would try to confront the gunman as fast as possible to one where officers treated the gunman as barricaded and no longer killing,” The Times reported. “Instead of storming the classroom, a decision was made to deploy a negotiator and to muster a more heavily armed and shielded tactical entry force.” 

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Bill Francis, a former FBI agent who was a senior leader on the bureau’s hostage rescue team for 17 years, told the Times that officials “made a poor decision defining that as a hostage-barricade situation” because “the longer you delay in finding and eliminating that threat, the longer he has to continue to kill other victims.”

It's obvious that the Uvalde PD slogan should be: "You go first, I'll wait here."

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Uvalde city officials avoid handing over police records on school massacre

Uvalde city officials are trying to keep records on the Texas school district's police response and the police chief of the school massacre on May 24 that left 19 children and two teachers dead. The reason for holding back the records that were requested by the media may have something to do with the fact that it took 77 minutes before the shooter was neutralized even while shooting inside a classroom while the police waited, for some reason.

Lawyers hired by the city wrote to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, giving 52 reasons why they should not have to go along with "numerous" requests for the truth under Texas' sunshine laws. But there are 21 reasons why they should, and they all have names.

The proverbial excrement hit the fan when it was revealed that Uvalde's police chief Pete Arrendondo, had his gaggle of cops go in after the gunman as he was behind a closed door shooting kids while dozens of officers stayed safe in the hallway hoping he would stop shooting them.

The New York Post requested the audio from the 911 calls, some made by terrified students, as the killer entered the Robb Elementary School. Other media outlets requested records related to Arrendondo.

The city lawyers' letter asked AG Paxton to rule on whether the information requested by media outlets is "excepted from disclosure under the Public Information Act." After all, the city doesn't want to embarrass the cops nor Arrendondo. 

Not-so Fun Fact: the mother of one of the children tried to enter the school but was stopped and temporarily handcuffed by the police who were nowhere near the 'danger zone.'

"The City claims that the requested information is not information that is collected, assembled, or maintained under a law or ordinance or in connection with the transaction of official business by a governmental body or for a governmental body or is excepted from disclosure," the letter, signed by attorney Cynthia Trevino, said.

Arredondo has received the brunt of the blame, for some reason, of the cowardly police response to the shooting after he moronically ordered law enforcement to try talking it out with the gunman while he was busy pulling the trigger. It was almost an hour before a group, comprised mostly of US Border Patrol agents, to go against Arrendondo's orders, and stormed into the classroom, killing the scumbag.

And the Left demonizes the US Border Patrol.

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Valdez Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Hal Harrell refused to reveal last week whether Arredondo was still employed by the city because he was embarrassed to do so. The Uvalde Chief of Police has kept a low profile out of fear. people will say mean things to him and make him feel unsafe.

Question: How many Uvalde police officers  does it take to change a lightbulb?

Answer: None. They'll wait for the US Border Patrol to change it for them.

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Uvalde PD stop cooperating with state amid words that make them feel unsafe

The Uvalde, Texas police department and local school district police have stopped cooperating with the Department of Safety investigation as they are feeling "unsafe" with the words being used to describe their behavior during the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School. Their lack of cooperation is not surprising as we have witnessed their lack of action against the now-dead shooter, an 18-year-old mentally ill man.

"It was scary," a cop who wished to remain anonymous to avoid dangerous, scary criticism said. "I was hoping he would run out of ammo and then we'd charge him, but he was well prepared and we used strategic patience, like Barack Obama used. It didn't work out very well for all parties."

The Uvalde Police Department and Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police force stopped cooperating Friday after they were criticized at a press conference, which made them feel unsafe and forced them to retreat to their "safe spaces."

 Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the police made the "wrong decision" when they stayed a safe distance from the danger in order to go home to their wives and kids or just dogs and cats, depending upon who you asked. 

Peter Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, has stayed out of sight and not responded to Texas Rangers for two days for a follow-up interview after having made initial statements following the shooting. 

Arredondo made the decision to not immediately confront the shooter at the school during his rampage last week because it was too dangerous. The "bravest" waited in a school hallway for almost 50 minutes. Fifty freaking minutes! Children were being shot and these cowards did nothing to stop him for 50 minutes.

McCraw said that Arredondo believed the situation had changed from active shooter to barricaded shooter, in spite of 911 calls coming from children inside the classroom. In spite of the training the cops received only 8 weeks prior to the rampage that clearly directs law enforcement to waste no time and confront the threat immediately once the location is known.

Then the cops didn't have a key to open the door and they worried that they might get cut if they came in through a window or perhaps have to pay for the door if they broke it down.

The entire incident was a clusterfrack of misinformation, cowardice, bad decisions, and lies. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed by this mentally ill person and the signs were there that he had a problem.

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Meanwhile the left used the opportunity to 'never let a crisis go to waste' and called for more gun control, as if that would have prevented this incident. 

Locked doors with only one school entrance, armed and trained school staff, metal detectors, faster, braver police response, and improved reporting of mental health issues, especially after threats are made, would have likely prevented this from happening, at least to the horrible degree that it did. 

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Alleged TX school shooter out of slammer on bond, has welcome home party

Arlilngton, Texas -- A suspected shooter at a Texas high school who opened fire and wounded four people has been released from jail on a $75,000 bond and after returning home, celebrated with his family at a welcome home party.

Timothy G. Simpkins, 18, had been charged with three counts of aggravated assault with  a deadly weapon. After he got out of the Tarrant County slammer, he was seen in videos on social media having the time of his life as he celebrated his academic accomplishments [shooting four people successfully] with his family at home,  according to the Daily Mail.

A GoFundMe fundraiser by Simpkins’ attorney was initiated with a $25,000 goal. Unfortunately for the Simpkins, they had raised merely $150 and got shut down by the website for violating its terms of service, according to Insider.

Fifteen-year-old Zacchaeus Selby, one victim who was shot four times in the shooting attack, is in the hospital in a medically induced coma and could not celebrate along with the Simpkins family. The Selby family also started a GoFundMe page for his medical expenses and and legal costs but did not violate the terms of service.

“He has a heart of gold and does not deserve to be fighting for his life in the ICU due to being shot in an environment were (sic) kids should feel safe. He is a great brother, boyfriend, and coworker and does not have a bone in his body to bully anyone,” the fundraiser continued.

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A Simpkins family spokesperson claim that little Timmy has been bullied and this is why he grabbed a gun and shot people who weren't even part of the alleged bullying. However, images of the claim actually appear to show Simpkins bullying a smaller person, not the other way around.

“From the beginning of this school year, Timothy has been bullied at school. He has been beaten, taunted, and harassed on a daily basis,” the post read, according to the Fort-Worth Star Telegram. “Recently he was ambushed by a group of young males outside of school, stripped of his clothing in front of a crowd of onlookers, and robbed of his money and possessions. He has been humiliated and stripped of his dignity on more than one occasion which led to him being fearful to go to school or even leave our home without an adult.”

Carol Harrison-Lafayette, who self-identified as a relative speaking on behalf of the Simpkins’ family, said the bullying has been reported to both teachers and administrative staff.

“I’m not trying to justify the gun that was brought, but when you’re being bullied, when there’s bullies, throughout this nation you hear of young people … committing suicide,” said Harrison-Lafayette, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“The decision he made, taking the gun, we’re not justifying that,” she continued. “That was not right. But he was trying to protect himself [by shooting everyone in the area]. And so we hope that the police department does the investigation properly. There are going to be independent investigations that are going to be done as well so we can get to the bottom of really what happened.”

What really happened was akin to taking a hand grenade to destroy an ant hill.

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Holy Mackerel! The Parkland shooter asked for help prior to massacre--was denied

This is what incompetence looks like

In a new report it was revealed that the 19-year-old gunman who shot up the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this past February 14th, that killed 17, had asked for help months before going on his rampage.

The school failed to act on his request, but somehow the NRA still got the brunt of the blame.

The report was released Friday after Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer ordered Broward County Public Schools to release its report on the young gunman.

The Daily Beast reported that the gunman was informed that "he could transfer to Cross Creek, a school tailored for students with special needs; sue the Broward school district; or stay at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School without any special counseling."

So it appears he took the path of least resistance, but that was not the case.

Another newspaper, the Sun-Sentinel, noted the investigation found the school district "did not follow the requirements of Florida statute or federal laws governing students with disabilities" in two specific instances:

School officials misstated [the shooter's] options when he was faced with being removed from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School his junior year, leading him to refuse special education services.

When [the shooter] asked to return to the therapeutic environment of Cross Creek School for special education students, the district "did not follow through," the report stated.

In the Daily Beast article, it said the shooter was identified by age three as having developmental delays and was "reportedly stripped of counseling services and left to fend for himself as a 'regular student' after the school district failed to inform him that he "was still entitled to special assistance at Stoneman Douglas if he chose to stay."

A few months after the school district failed to act on his request for help, the gunman dropped out of school and immediately bought the rifle that he would soon use to carry out one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

Don't blame the NRA; blame everyone involved in this shooter's case who heard the warning signs and refused to act on them.

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