AG Uthmeier ignores ‘duty to prosecute’ and 4th DCA rules kids as young as Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz can carry concealed guns

Last week the state appeals court for Broward County, where the 2018 Parkland school massacre took place, ruled that kids as young as convicted killer Nikolas Cruz have the right to walk around with concealed weapons.

Cruz was 19 when he murdered 17 students and staff members and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School; he’s serving 34 consecutive life terms. Soon after the mass shooting, the Florida Legislature passed and then-Gov. Rick Scott signed limited gun reforms, also leaving intact a 1987 law that barred adults ages 18, 19 and 20 from bearing hidden weapons.

Now those youths are free to roam unregulated thanks to the Fourth District Court of Appeal (4th DCA) and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier…

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