Five Years After Parkland, Florida’s Measured Response Is An Outlier

Five years ago today, on February 14, 2018, a teen gunman walked into the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and murdered 17 people. 

The shooting was all the more tragic for the several layers of official failure surrounding it. There were far too many missed warning signs that should have resulted in intervention, and a bungled emergency response that led to far more deaths and injuries than should have been possible.