Posted on 04/19/2021 10:52:35 AM PDT by Hojczyk
How did the mass murder perpetrator in last week’s shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis have the ability to buy his firearms? Both local police and the FBI had intervened a year earlier after his family warned law enforcement about his mental health, and police had seized his shotgun at that time. Shouldn’t that have initiated a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law to bar Brandon Scott Hole from acquiring replacement firearms?
It might have, the county prosecutor told the media today, had they pressed the red-flag case. Instead, Ryan Mears said, they stopped at the confiscation because prosecutors didn’t want to press their luck in court:
A former FedEx employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis never appeared before a judge for a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law, even after his mother called police last year to say her son might commit “suicide by cop,” a prosecutor said Monday.
Authorities believed they had done what they needed to by seizing the pump-action shotgun from Brandon Scott Hole in March 2020, Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said.
Mears added, “I think this case illustrates the limitations” of the law. At the very least, one can conclude that this case illustrates the limitations of prosecutors. Essentially, they created the worst of all worlds in this outcome, even if their intentions were good. The decision to stop the red-flag process left them in possession of Hole’s property indefinitely, which is at some point an unconstitutional seizure without due process. On top of that, the failure to follow through on the threat allowed Hole to acquire more firearms, which made the confiscation useless anyway.
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At the very least, one can conclude that this case illustrates the limitations of prosecutors. Essentially, they created the worst of all worlds in this outcome, even if their intentions were good. The decision to stop the red-flag process left them in possession of Hole’s property indefinitely, which is at some point an unconstitutional seizure without due process. On top of that, the failure to follow through on the threat allowed Hole to acquire more firearms, which made the confiscation useless anyway.
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If you are going to have a law, use it.
Otherwise, repeal it.
Red flag laws don’t work.
Facilities for the mentally ill do.
Once again, fools think government-bureaucrat regulation is going to protect them.
Police want to do the least amount of work possible. The usual line is that it is a civil matter and not something the police can handle. An exmaple is that I was told that knowingly writing a check on a closed account was in fact no fraud but a civil matter.
My sympathies for the slain innocents and their families.
In addition, can you imagine how the mother of the gunman must feel now, having done the right thing and informed the police about his potential danger, only to have someone not follow through. No way should he have gotten those weapons. Residential help for the chronically disturbed is not always easy to arrange. There is a huge waiting list, with children getting attention first.
He sounds to have been severely disturbed.
He was a part of the “Brony” Community. That means men who idolize the cartoon character My Little Pony. Yes, that cartoon character with the bright pink mane.
Until now, I didn’t think there was anything more bizarre than the Incels. I guess I was wrong.
They had taken his gun already - the question is why the original confiscation didn’t appear in the background check for when he purchased his next gun.
BTW - The Indianapolis Star is turning this into an “anti-Sikh” “hate crime” because half of the people killed were Sikh - so that was obviously intentional (ignoring the black women and 2 wypipo who were killed)
yep, none of these kids identified as mentally ill got treatment.
Did they ever publicize the type of weapon he used that night?
So was this Brony a Biden supporter or not?
As BIDEN said back in 2013...
https://humanevents.com/2013/01/18/biden-we-cant-enforce-the-old-laws-so-we-need-more/
Government ‘workers’ want to do the least amount of work possible. Unless it increases their power...................
They are liable and should be able to be sued by the victims families.
he question is why the original confiscation didn’t appear in the background check for when he purchased his next gun.
My thoughts also.
And yet if they tried to lock him up, the LGBQTBrony/media community would be up in arms over the detainer.
You are correct. We were told by the sheriff’s deputy that our “neighbor” trespassing on our lot and deliberately and with malice destroying our landscape beds and borders was really a “civil matter”, then told us to get a lawyer. When in fact trespass is a criminal act under our state’s law. Had it up to here with these phony pension-building cops.
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