02-15-2018, 12:18 PM
(02-15-2018, 11:47 AM)Midwest Spy Wrote: The latest: just another legally purchased firearm used to murder innocents.
Yep, the narrative that criminals will find a way to steal guns and commit atrocities has grown cobwebs, it’s so old.
Most, if not all, of these mass shootings are committed by people with legally purchased weapons.
Time to do away with them (AR-15’s and equivalent).
Period.
It's been confirmed that the shooter had been receiving mental health treatment until last year, but I bet there's no information about that in the NICS background check system.
It also appears that the FBI missed out on an opportunity to intervene before the shooting, when a bail bondsman in Mississippi last year alerted the feds about an alarming online message Cruz wrote saying he was 'going to be a professional school shooter'.
Ben Bennight says he alerted the FBI to a comment shared by Cruz on one of his YouTube videos back in September. He says the FBI was quick to respond to the concerning statement, arriving at his office the very next day to find out if he knew anything about the young man.
That was after he called a local field agent, revealing that his initial attempts to send in a screengrab of the comment failed when the email address he found listed on the federal agency's website came back with a domain error saying that it did not exist.
He didn't get a follow up from the FBI until Wednesday though, after the shooting. At a press conference Thursday morning, an FBI officials said they followed up on the report but were 'unable to further identify the person who made the comment'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...rning.html
It's also been confirmed that Cruz's mother died in November. He was adopted by her when he was an infant and she was reportedly the only person with whom he was close.