After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, major media outlets swarmed to the the Florida town to cover the murders and promote a very political anti-gun agenda. Some classmates of the shooter were heralded on news channels and magazines across the nation as a means to push their views over this. Lost, however, through the constant coverage were ideas to find solutions to the wave of mass shootings at the time.

Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was among the Parkland shooting victims, talks with London Center Senior Fellow Lt. Col. Tim Wilson to discuss what really went wrong and how to find ways to prevent such things from happening on school grounds in the future.


Tim and Andrew discuss:
What did school officials miss before the shooting and why?
Why "No Gun Zones" are extremely dangerous
Why many school districts refuse to have armed officers or security guards protect their students
Why and how teachers should be trained to use firearms in case of an emergency
How Meadow's and the other Parkland students' deaths could have been prevented


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Tim Wilson is a Senior Fellow at the London Center, a former British Army officer who served in a variety of command appointments on numerous operational tours during a 32 year military career. Having retired from regular military service in 2003 as a Lieutenant Colonel he moved to the USA in 2005 where he now works as an independent consultant and researcher. https://www.londoncenter.org/fellows/9910BA16-8C7C-11E9-BC4D-0DCD4829D8DB/profile


Andrew Pollack leads the Crime Prevention Research Center: https://crimeresearch.org/
Pollack spent his career as a small businessman in scrap metal and real estate, but after his daughter Meadow was murdered in the Parkland school shooting he dedicated his life to finding answers and preventing future tragedies. Contrary to the national media narrative, Pollack learned that gun control laws had nothing to do with why that mass shooting happened. It was, rather, systemic failures in public institutions caused by misguided liberal policies. “The people who blame the gun before they learn the facts,” Pollack says, “are a big part of what people call the ‘root cause’ of mass shootings and violent crime. At the Crime Prevention Research Center, I will focus on finding and disseminating the facts. On saving lives, not on partisan talking points.”