Behind the Headlines: Florida School Mass Shooting: Gun Control, Mental Illness and the Criminal Mind

Published: Feb. 18, 2018, midnight

b'Another mass shooting took place in the US last week, this time at a high school in south Florida. The gunman was apparently 19-year-old dropout Nikolas Cruz, who waltzed into the school with an AR-15 rifle and some spare clips of ammo, then slaughtered 17 students and teachers in cold blood. He escaped the shooting scene by hiding among the fleeing students, but was later picked up by law enforcement. Cruz was associated with a White Nationalist group in Florida, suggesting that his motive...'