On reaching a consensus re mass shootings in the U.S.

3 percent?

Citation needed

 

here's one form usa today. 3% of Americans own half the country's 265 million guns
One from NPR Nearly Half Of Guns In U.S. Owned By 3 Percent Of Population, Study Finds

 

Due process in this case would be for the FBI to have followed protocol, which they readily admit that they failed to do. An eleven year old girl was arrested for having slipped a piece of paper under the principal's door which said that she was going to get a gun and shoot people. And she was arrested because written threats to kill or do bodily injury is a felony.

One would think that, in light of the fact that "children are being murdered at school in record numbers", the FBI would have subpoenaed Google to locate Nikolas Cruz, the You Tuber who indicated that he was going to be a professional school shooter. That would have led to information that his teachers were worried about him carrying a backpack.

 

Again no disagreement from me. I just proposed that the justification for inaction will always come from a weighty sounding direction. Litigation has become a country draining outcome.

 

True. But non investigation and litigation in these kinds of cases can be deadly.

 

Yep. I'd hope to see some disciplinary actions.

 

Washington (CNN)

The FBI failed to act on a tip about Nikolas Cruz, the confessed shooter in the Parkland, Florida, school massacre, the bureau said in a statement on Friday.

A person close to Cruz contacted the FBI on January 5 to report concerns about him, the FBI said in a statement Friday. But the bureau did not appropriately follow established protocols in following up on the tip.

. . . The FBI said the caller provided information about "Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting." The information should have been assessed as a "potential threat to life," the bureau said.
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If they weren't negligent, they shouldn't have said that they were. But they did, probably because they were.

 

I recall that they caller(s) showed his name was spelled and matched exactly the same name Cruz used. If the FBI can track Do Not Fly suspects, there is no reason in the world they can't find a known 18 year old American provided to them on a silver plate.

 

Increasing the pressure to carry out what law enforcement is supposed to be doing in the first place. That is part of what this thread is about.

 

We don't actually have any "Anti-Hate Laws" now. Laws can't regulate people's minds no matter how many are enacted. All the laws can do is allow the government to cash in on human nature. Just like drug laws.

 

Well the point of the "bitching" about the FBI has nothing to do with what they missed; it's about what they ignored. But we won't talk about it anymore.

 

Fuck anti hate laws.

 

I hate anti-hate laws!