The signs were there. They're almost always there. No one was paying attention.

Flopping Aces ^ | 05-27-22 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

Tucson. Parkland. Buffalo. Uvalde.

Jared Loughner. Nikolas Cruz. Peyton Gendron. Salvador Ramos.

Their stories are all the same.

They committed terrible crimes exacting unimaginable pain and loss. All were preventable had someone taken their job seriously.

Jared Loughner, who shot Gabby Giffords, was well known to Tucson police. He made numerous death threats. The cops were called to his house numerous times. He purchased a Glock after he made several death threats. They let him keep the weapon.

Nikolas Cruz posted “Im going to be a professional school shooter” on YouTube.  The FBI was tipped off.

A person close to Cruz warned the FBI last month that he had a “desire to kill people” and could carry out a school shooting, the FBI admitted on Friday. The agency failed to act on the tip.

The FBI was also warned about Cruz after he posted on YouTube saying he was going to become a “professional school shooter.” The agency said they couldn’t identify the user who made the threat, despite Cruz posting under his own name.

The local cops were summoned to the Cruz home 39 times. Barack Obama was an enabler of Cruz. To keep minority kids out of jail he mandated that criminal referrals from schools be limited.

The demand for an answer to that question has focused attention on Broward County Public Schools policies embraced by the Obama administration that were designed to help rule-breaking students avoid permanent blots on their records by reducing referrals to law enforcement.

Peyton Gendron was hospitalized following a threat to shoot up a school

Payton Gendron, 18, who has been charged with murder over the attack, had previously threatened to shoot up his high school and was taken into custody for a mental health evaluation, an anonymous law enforcement source told The Associated Press.

In 2021, the then-17-year-old talked about committing a shooting at Susquehanna Valley Central High School in Broome County, New York.

Gendron left a trail on social media about his plans. They still let him have weapons.

Salvador Ramos wasn't right in the head and was known to police. He also left a trail:

Just hours before the killings took place, Ramos had messaged an acquaintance on Instagram telling her he had a 'lil secret' he wanted to share, after earlier tagging her in a photo of two guns he bought himself on his 18th birthday. His TikTok account also featured a short user bio that read: 'Kids Be Scared.'

He mutilated himself

Neighbors and classmates say his behavior spiraled into the bizarre and macabre as he entered his later teenage years, with one friend telling Good Morning America: 'He had scars on his face and someone asked him, 'Are you ok?' and he just said with a smile 'I did it myself, I liked how it looked.'

He began dressing in dark clothes and military boots and used his BB gun to target random people, one local claimed.

Ramos sent Facebook messages:

'Ima do something to her rn [right now]' wrote Ramos in a message at 11.10am Texas time. He added a few minutes later: 'She's on the phone with AT&T abojt [sic] my phone...It's annoying'.

At 11.21am he wrote 'I just shot my grandma in her head' and added in his final message: 'Ima go shoot up a elementary school.'

None of these young people should have been able to buy a gun. Families always profess shock and surprise but never seem to pay attention to the trails of crumbs being left along the way.

And yes, democrats absolutely love mass shootings. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), one of the dimmest lights in the Senate, seizes on these events to draw attention to himself.

"I'm here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues, find a path forward here. Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely."

Blah, blah, blah.

Let's not pretend that democrats care about the safety of children. They do not care when children die one or two at a time. They only profess to care when there is a mass shooting.

[Vermont Lt]

Who is supposed to pay attention?

How about the parents?

No father in sight.

The mother was drug addled. Her boyfriend was the father figure.

But, in these days of bastard kids and divorced parents…no one is raising these morons. And now we are three generations into normalizing this.

[David Chase]

[metmom]

Let's not pretend that democrats care about the safety of children. They do not care when children die one or two at a time. They only profess to care when there is a mass shooting

If the safety of children were truly a priority, abortion would still be illegal and would be prosecuted as murder.

[metmom]

Democrats want events like this so they can justify disarming us.

There were too many “wrong” decisions in how this was handled to be an accident, unintentional, or incompetence.

[David Chase]

Yep.

Also, oddly, the NRA is holding its annual meeting this weekend in Houston.

The same timing of a major school shooting happen in Columbine, where the NRA was 2 weeks away from having their annual meeting in Denver and that meeting was cut short to one day.

[TexasFreeper2009]

The cops in nearly every community know who these people are, but are helpless to do anything.

In any sane world, we would have people talking to cops all over America and having them list at least 10 people they suspect might be prone to various types of crimes. And then have those people interviewed by professionals to determine the truth and if needed institutionalize the suspects.

This is how you protect society, and NOT locking all the good people in bubble wrap!

[sit-rep]

This makes no sense to me... I got banned on FB about 7 times because I said looter and rioters in this era should just be shot on sight... ...and no, I still haven’t learned my lesson!! Lol..

[Amendment10]

Either not paying attention, but probably in denial imo.

Insights welcome.

[bobbo666]

Not quite true. The commie trash in charge saw this — every single time. But, they permit no intervention and stop all preparation/hardening.

Since their children are guarded with armed guards they desperately want as many middle class kiddies murdered as possible so they can confiscate and then enslave. That is the end goal.

[oldasrocks]

Everyone is so scared pf getting sued they look the other way.