
Broward: ‘Promise’ didn’t enable shooter to buy guns
Broward County’s PROMISE program, which diverts misbehaving students from the criminal-justice system, didn’t enable a former student to legally buy the guns he used to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, concludes a commission. Anthony Borges, 15, was shot five times while barricading a classroom door, protecting 20 classmates. “The PROMISE program didn’t fail,” Pinellas County Sheriff and commission chair Bob Gualtieri said. “It’s completely irrelevant,